Proxy Server FreeBSD

Setting up a proxy server in BSD-UNIX and GNU/Linux operating systems.

 

 

 

Let's look at an example of configuring Privoxy and Tinyproxy to work in Tor or I2P networks.

Both Privoxy and Tinyproxy are light proxy servers and work well under BSD-UNIX and GNU/Linux, I will show you an example of setup in FreeBSD.

As always, we start with the installation.

 

make auto

cd /usr/ports/www/privoxy/

make install clean

 

or

 

pkg install privoxy

 

The configuration on FreeBSD is in this path /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config if you have another operating system you can find it with the command

 

find / -name privoxy

 

Open and edit the configuration file with any editor you like:

 

ee /usr/ports/www/privoxy/config

 

In the listen-address line we specify your address and port on which the proxy server will work, by default it is 127.0.0.1:8118

 

To make all traffic go through Tor add a line or only through Tor network, respectively:

 

forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 . or forward-socks5 .onion localhost:9050 .

 

To work with I2P network add the following similarly to the above example:

 

forward / 127.0.0.1:4444 or forward .i2p 127.0.0.1:4444

 

In the application settings you want to let traffic through the proxy specify http proxy 127.0.0.0:8118

 

To set up Tinyproxy, install it:

 

make auto

cd /usr/ports/www/tinyproxy/

make install clean

 

or

 

pkg install tinyproxy

 

Edit the configuration file

 

ee /usr/local/etc/tinyproxy.conf

 

 

Port 8888

Listen 127.0.0.1

 

If you don't set Listen, it will listen to all addresses.

 

To make all traffic go through Tor add a line or make it only through the Tor network, respectively:

 

upstream socks5 127.0.0.1:9050 or upstream socks5 127.0.0.1:9050 ".onion"

 

To work with I2P network we add the following, similarly to the example above:

 

upstream http 127.0.0.1:4444 or upstream http 127.0.0.1:4444 ".i2p"

 

In the settings of your application you specify http proxy 127.0.0.0:8888 in the traffic of which you want to let through the proxy server

 

 

And add to /etc/rc.conf a line depending on what kind of proxy you are using:

 

privoxy_enable="YES"

 

or

 

tinyproxy_enable="YES"

 

 

FreeBSD is so easy, and so much fun!