Proxies allow you to cache content so you don’t have to reload it twice, make it seem like you’re coming from somewhere else, create content scanners against things like viruses so you don’t get infected, and other stuff. They’ll speed up your internet with the cached content so it might seem faster if you go to the same page frequently. There are lots of ways to do this, but this howto is just a down-and-dirty cut/paste to get squid proxy working on a debian server
Squid proxy setup
apt-get install squid3 |
Now we set up the anonymizing features
cp /etc/squid/squid.conf /etc/squid/squid.conf.orig vi /etc/squid/squid.conf acl localnet src 192.168.1.0/24 <- uncomment this, and change to match yours http_access allow localnet <- uncomment http_port 3128 <--- set the port to what you want your browser to connect on, 3128 is default tcp_outgoing_address pub.lic.ip.address public_ip <--- your public IP, add this line acl public_ip pub.lic.ip.address <--- add this line, set to your public IP acl remote your.clients.ip.address http_access allow manager localhost (change to) http_access allow manager localhost remote (uncomment the following lines) header_access Allow allow all header_access Authorization allow all header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all header_access Cache-Control allow all header_access Content-Encoding allow all header_access Content-Length allow all header_access Content-Type allow all header_access Date allow all header_access Expires allow all header_access Host allow all header_access If-Modified-Since allow all header_access Last-Modified allow all header_access Location allow all header_access Pragma allow all header_access Accept allow all header_access Accept-Charset allow all header_access Accept-Encoding allow all header_access Accept-Language allow all header_access Content-Language allow all header_access Mime-Version allow all header_access Retry-After allow all header_access Title allow all header_access Connection allow all header_access Proxy-Connection allow all header_access All deny all |