Re: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy

2009-08-30 Thread Etienne
hi andre sorry for this late reply. Your analysis is not correct. I am not trying to bypass a corporate proxy . I work independently and I have no restriction to my web access either at work or at home. In fact I had the opposite problem to solve during my vacations: trying to access my server fr

Re: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy

2009-08-26 Thread André Warnier
Etienne, I am not quite sure that anyone here really understand what you are trying to do, nor if your usage of the words "proxy" and "hosting" really matches the usual technical meanings of these words. I have a suspicion that your situation might be as follows : - you are working on a work

Re: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy

2009-08-26 Thread Etienne
yes, I want to do that. However my client is a windows XP machine. thus I have to use putty apparently this port forwarding is working well I have a silly question : how can I configure apache to work as a proxy without cancelling my current web hosting ? I am only using virtual hosts for hostin

Re: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy

2009-08-26 Thread Etienne
I would like to bypass firewall for web browsing by tunneling my http requests from my client to my proxy server through ssh port forwarding is part of ssh protocole and fully supported by putty see http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-ssh-portfwd etienne 2009/8/

RE: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Peacock
.peac...@minorplanet.com] Sent: 26 August 2009 16:11 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy I don't quite understand what you're trying to do ... "to connect to my server through putty with ssh tunnel" and then later on you try to browse "

Re: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 16:48 +0200, Etienne wrote: > hi all, > > I would like to enable a proxy on my server with port forwarding. > The idea is to connect to my server through putty with ssh tunnel > forwarding localhost:80 to myproxyserver.com:80 > I have enabled proxy module with a2enmod proxy c

RE: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Peacock
I don't quite understand what you're trying to do ... "to connect to my server through putty with ssh tunnel" and then later on you try to browse "a web site". Are you tying to set up apache as a proxy server (for outbound requests) and port-forwarding for inbound requests? __