Comments on: Run a local proxy server

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:11:33 +0000

Yeah. I tried that too. I entered my IP address into the browser and got prompted for a username and password? What’s that all about?

By: mike

mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:26:49 +0000

Using XAMPP with glype, but get a authentication request when entering IP in browser. Tried my user name for computer but no go. have not setup htacsess yet. What did I miss in the instructions?

By: LuxusElg

LuxusElg — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:15:43 +0000

my proxy works pretty well, but if I try to password protect it with a .htaccess and a .htpasswd file, I just get server error.. :S
help?

By: Need proxy

Need proxy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:14:57 +0000

Your IP is: 207.74.27.130
Remote Port: 35491
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Referer: http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/01/run-a-local-proxy-server/

By: axlerose

axlerose — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:42:55 +0000

I am up-and-running with XAMPP and Glype

youporn, youtube… all works nice !

By: axlerose

axlerose — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:13:46 +0000

I followed the PHP instructions here:
http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/07/setting-up-your-own-proxy-server/

but couldn’t figure it out; just get a white page when I navigate to http://localhost/tennis/phpproxy.php

By: axlerose

axlerose — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:47:13 +0000

youtube gives me this message:
Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe’s Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.

youporn doesn’t work either

By: meeko

meeko — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:57:34 +0000

Martin, thank you so much for the useful info.
Can I browse utube but be able to stream videos?
I mean, the script running in utube-like sites will pass through as-is?

By: julian

julian — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:38:56 +0000

hello great artical i love your post but one probelm when ever i try to acsses the proxy im stuck in my wirless rotour menu

By: ShaiVong

ShaiVong — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:24:59 +0000

I can’t get it to work on mine; It just opens up like a web directory of files, it doesn’t run the the scripts. I’m running Apache 2.2, which should be right… Do I have to change some of the local directory lines in my httpd.conf file?

By: retro computers

retro computers — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:54:00 +0000

Is there any way of making this simpler to explain ?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:40:04 +0000

I don’t think so. you need real proxies for those tasks, not web based proxy scripts.

By: Schnitz

Schnitz — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:43:01 +0000

Is it possible to change the proxy-script , so that it can be used within a download-manager for example?

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:56:52 +0000

This could hold true in some instances but not with this. It is really easy to setup and use, the only real problem would be a dynamic IP.

By: boss

boss — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:46:47 +0000

I find generally that these “simnple” technical setups are often more complex thatn first anticipated.

By: xFilthyxJesusx

xFilthyxJesusx — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:35:22 +0000

I tried to set up the CGI proxy. and it worked if I didnt put url encoding on but I can’t seem to figure out how to set up the url encoding right. I’m going to look it up and I’ll let you know if I can figure it out if you’d want any information that I have about setting up a cgi proxy jsut let me know and I’ll help you to the best of my ability.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:34:54 +0000

The problem with the cgi proxy script is that it really consumes lots of ram and cpu of the server and that it is a burden for the server if you run a popular script..

As I said, I will take the time and write an article about setting it up locally. I’m also thinking of buying a advanced proxy script and set it up on a new server and offer private proxies for a few dollars and a public one with ads..

By: xFilthyxJesusx

xFilthyxJesusx — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:26:51 +0000

Thanks for this Martin. I have just been forgetting and forgetting to do this for a long time. I set mine up. (CGI) If you want to see if it’s set up wrong or anything go on ahead. I can actually show you how I set it up.

http://xFilthyxJesusx.com

Oh and I forgot to tell you. I have you linked on my site. I hope that’s ok. I really happen to love your site and it’s one of the reason’s I’ve set u a blog aswell. I’ve yet to get it up and running but I plan to make it similiar to yours. If you’d like to be removed of course just let me know. I know my name can be offensive and I wish I wouldn’t have used it but I wasn’t thinking when I set it up.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:44:51 +0000

Yes the cgi proxy works better but is more complicated to setup. I will write about it soon.

By: xFilthyxJesusx

xFilthyxJesusx — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:53:00 +0000

This one doesn’t seem to work very well. My test to see if a proxy works well is being able to logon to the website MySpace.com because that is the most desired teen website and blocked by almost all censorship software. CGI proxies I think work for this. Or does this one work as well? If not can you point me in the direction of one that does?