Hi,
apache is a really a web server. AFAIK, it has very limited features to
be a proxy server.
If you are using debian, make sure the module is installed.
For a better proxy server, I suggest you to try out squid. There is a
debian package for it.
Hope this helps.
Shao.
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 04:26:06PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to set up my Apache seerver as Proxy host.
> I'm really unexperienced in this topic and at first I
> want to describe my environment:
>
> There are different departments in our institute.
> The main department has a fast internet connection and
> uses a firewall and a proxy server.
>
> I work in a department with a slow connection (modem line)
> to the main department. We are sitting behind the firewall.
>
> My idea was to speed up the internet connection using a
> local proxy server in our house to serve visited sites for
> all user via local net.
>
> I tried it setting up the Apache server and commented out the
> line
>
> LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libproxy.so
>
> in /etc/apache/httpd.conf. After that I did
>
> /etc/init.d/apache restart
>
> You guess it or not, it doesn't work. Could someone enlighten
> my why not.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
>
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