How to install and configure Tinyproxy on Ubuntu 14.04

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Install and configure Tinyproxy on Ubuntu 14.04</u></span></h1> <div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b>Tinyproxy </b>is a HTTP <b><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/proxy">proxy</a> </b>server daemon for POSIX operating systems. Designed to be fast and small, it is useful when an HTTP/HTTPS <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/proxy">proxy </a>is required, but the system resources for a larger proxy are unavailable. Because of this it has been put to uses such as a tether on the iPhone, and on the OpenWrt.</span></span></div> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdPo2ovKOZSguZewmZtbrjS66xCPAOih2Dg_d9hOokOELBMyLoPFG8q8Hf9qeTnd-NKrOdbs8G81X5e3ZklP2wzWuGhfAawOfSskuCMS8w15Y1MRYYCKmX8ZM1pStNc1VudsfKzr7VQgWd/s1600/tinyproxy_block.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdPo2ovKOZSguZewmZtbrjS66xCPAOih2Dg_d9hOokOELBMyLoPFG8q8Hf9qeTnd-NKrOdbs8G81X5e3ZklP2wzWuGhfAawOfSskuCMS8w15Y1MRYYCKmX8ZM1pStNc1VudsfKzr7VQgWd/s1600/tinyproxy_block.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Tinyproxy is primarily designed to run on Unix-like systems. Released under the GNU General Public License, Tinyproxy is free software and has been developed for a number of years. It is currently being maintained on GitHub as a publicly accessible project. Ohloh analyses it to be a project with "mature, well-established codebase and increasing year-over-year development activity."</span></span></div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Features</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> <ul style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-align: left;"> <li><b>Anonymous mode:</b> Allows specification of individual HTTP headers that should be allowed through, and which should be blocked.</li> <li><b>HTTPS support:</b> Tinyproxy allows forwarding of HTTPS connections without modifying traffic in any way.</li> <li><b>Remote monitoring:</b> Tinyproxy can be monitored remotely to view logs and access details.</li> <li><b>Load average monitoring:</b> Tinyproxy can be configured to refuse connections after the server load reaches a certain point.</li> <li><b>Access control:</b> Tinyproxy can be configured to only allow connections from certain subnets or IP addresses.</li> <li><b>Secure: </b>With some configuration, Tinyproxy can be made to run without any special privileges, thus minimizing the chance of system compromise. Furthermore, it was designed with an eye towards preventing buffer overflows.</li> <li><b>Small footprint:</b> Tinyproxy requires very little in the way of system resources - the memory footprint tends to be around 2MB with glibc, and the CPU load increases linearly with the number of simultaneous connections (depending on the speed of the connection). Therefore, Tinyproxy can be run on a spare, older machine without any impact on performance.</li> <li><b>URL based filtering:</b> Tinyproxy allows domain and URL-based black- and whitelisting.</li> <li><b>Transparent proxying:</b> Tinyproxy supports being configured as a transparent proxy, so that a proxy can be used without requiring any client-side configuration.</li> <li><b>Proxy chaining:</b> Tinyproxy can use an upstream proxy server for outbound connections, instead of direct connections to the target server, creating a so-called proxy chain.</li> </ul> <div> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">It’s always recommended to update your package repository cache before installing new packages.</span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">sudo apt-get update</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Install and Configure Tinyproxy</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Tinyproxy can be installed from the default Ubuntu repositories with:</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">sudo apt-get install tinyproxy</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Once the installation is complete, open the Tinyproxy configuration file with your editor of choice:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">sudo nano /etc/tinyproxy.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">The default port number is set to 8888, but you can change it to whatever you like. In most cases, the default port number does not need to be changed. Please note that if you want to run your Tinyproxy server on a port lower than 1024 you will need to start Tinyproxy using root.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">By default Tinyproxy will only accept connections from 127.0.0.1. Scroll down to the authorization controls section and add your local computer’s IP address to the allow list:</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Allow 127.0.0.1 Allow your.local.ip.address</span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">If you do not know your computer's IP address, open your web browser and navigate to http://ipinfo.io/ip. Copy and paste the IP address shown at this site into the Tinyproxy configuration file.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">All other default settings should be fine.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Save the configuration and restart the service.</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">sudo /etc/init.d/tinyproxy restart</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Setup a cron job</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Setting up a daily cron job will prevent memory leaks.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Use the command <b>crontab -e</b> to edit the crontab file and add the following line:</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">0 2 * * * /etc/init.d/tinyproxy restart</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">That's it. You have successfully installed Tinyproxy on your Ubuntu 14.04.</span></span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></div> </div> </div>

How to install and configure Tinyproxy on Ubuntu 14.04

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