From today we begin a series of tutorials about proxy servers is up to you if this series will be long or short.
The first server you will install is called Squid and is present in most data centers worldwide. Lately has been put in place proxy NAT (network adress translation) economic and functional reasons, you need a gun to catch mosquitoes.
The proxy server is a kind of secretary that knows how to do many things:
It can be an excellent cache group of computers.
It can effectively filter the content that gets to certain computers
Can accumulate statistics on traffic, content, sessions, etc..
May play a more computer antivirus
It can act as a "triage" in case of more exotic server configurations (custom clusters)
Course features do not stop here, only imagination can limit the scope of the current protocols used for proxy servers.
Contrary to popular belief, a proxy server is not a bad thing, until recently it was part of the structure of networks around the world. Now all that is known about the proxy is that it "hides our IP". Fortunately, proxy servers are much more useful. Like the knife, you either spread butter on the bread, or "cut the meat."
Today we will see how to install and to be made to connect to a proxy server.
Anyone can do that, if you do not trust to install the PC as the main operating system, you can quickly configure a virtual machine with Ubuntu, just like I did in the tutorial.
Today we will:
1. Installation on Ubuntu
2. Edit configuration file (to accept connections)
3. Connecting from Windows to the proxy server
4. Checking the configuration
Careful.
The settings that I did in the tutorial are not suitable for a professional environment, there is safety first and the last thing I would do an admin system is to allow everyone to use the company's proxy server. I made the settings for sumplificarea things that way.
Along the way you will do that courage, we start with the settings for pelleting. In the meantime relax and try to understand what it is and how a proxy server, in our case, Squid Proxy.
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Also used Ubuntu Linux?
How not to use, even if you do not hear the news, Ubuntu is growing as popularity.
It can be a tutorial on custom Windows-based NAS server (or another version of Windows) or Linux
It would be quite interesting for Windows as well. I also feel good on Ubuntu, but when I'm gone I don't want to leave the virtual machine open because if someone has to go to the PC and see the virtual machine on .... they won't know what it uses even more than for sure when it is an inexperienced person when it sees the terminal or an interface other than the one in Windows it will surely be scared and it will close it :).
PROXY SERVER CONFIGURATION IN WINDOWS!!
where is the cache stored? that is, what is the way? and if I allocated to the Ubuntu system partition only 6 gb .. and I used the proxy to update to windows .. how could I empty that folder
Hello! Very useful tutorial, but I would be very happy (maybe not only) if you could do a tutorial on OpenVPN for Linux, using this type of book: http://www.vpnbook.com (TCP 443) also using the OpenVPN GUI application, in order to overcome the proxy restrictions imposed by the provider. It's easy on windows, but it would be a little helpful for linux. Thank you!
Thanks for the tutorial, because I do and I do not use windows linux than virtualbox
Know that programs like proxy server, ftp server ... feel like "fish in water" on linux whatever you want to use (ubuntu, backtrack, mandriva ...). on linux it works without errors if it is configured well from the beginning. and freebsd is ok but not very used home user.
I would like a tutorial for Windows