Comments on: Run a local proxy server

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?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:24:27 +0000

Well the process itself is not complicated at all. Download XAMP, install it and activate Apache (from XAMP Control Panel in start menu). Download the proxy script and unzip it into the htdocs subdir of the XAMP installation.

Look up your ip at http://www.ghacks.net/ip and enter the following url into your browser at work. (with the home computer running)

http://yourip/

The proxy should appear and you are ready to go. Protecting the directory is optional, creating a subdir as well.