hi i would like to create a home proxy on my linux server, id like to be able to connect such as:

device --------------------- proxy --------------------------- internet
outside--------https------- home -------------http----------- www

i want to connect to the proxy so that all traffic goes in https and then to rest of web in http, and i would like to make all the https traffic look like its going to a website hosted on the server with the proxy.


i apreciate any help, any suggestions for software such as apache or squid, or anything i can research for help.
thanks in advance.

you should be more specific technically...

u wanted to route all your traffic to a web proxy right..

u have to configure a proxy server for that purpose ..

u need to check whether required package is installed or not:

u need to edit this file: /etc/squid/squid.conf
for further process tell some more options you need to have in your proxy server.

thanks very much i only want to use for http traffic, so i want to make it all go to a host site on the proxy then forwarded from here. t
thanks

You can certainly use squid. You can also use Apache. There is a container <Proxy> you can use together with directives ProxyRequests and ProxyVia (you almost always need this) in httpd.conf.

In fact, I have it set up to do that on my home server. I use the following to get it to work for any machine in my home LAN, but on port 8080 (I have 'Listen 8080' elsewhere in httpd.conf):

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
ProxyRequests On
ProxyVia On
<Proxy *:8080>
Require valid-user
AuthName "ClosedProxy"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/mejohnsn/serverPwdFileBasic
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
Satisfy Any
</Proxy>
</IfModule>

And I used htpasswd to create the one user and password in serverPwdFileBasic

Now for what you are doing, you don't need all that complexity: I was trying to get it to work without password (authentication challenge) for machines inside, but with challenge for machines outside. But for machines outside, I get the challenge, yet authentication fails even when I do enter the right user/password. So it is still safe from hackers But this will be the topic of another post.

Don't forget to open up port 8080 on the firewalls on all machines inside your LAN. Or change it to port 80, if as likely it is already open.

The article at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administr...roxy-Server/2/ on using Apache as a proxy server is pretty elementary, but still pretty good. I lifted a lot of the above config from there.