In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install PHP-Proxy on the latest version of Debian.
Before starting with the installation process, ensure that you have the following:
First, we need to install some dependencies required by PHP-Proxy. Open the terminal and execute the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install git curl php php-curl php-mbstring composer
This will update the package list and install Git, curl, PHP, PHP-curl, PHP-mbstring, and Composer.
Now, we will install PHP-Proxy using Git. Run the following commands in the terminal:
cd /var/www
sudo git clone https://github.com/Athlon1600/php-proxy-app.git php-proxy
cd php-proxy
sudo composer install
Next, we need to configure PHP-Proxy to work with our web server.
If you are using Apache, open the configuration file with your favorite text editor by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Add the following code block inside the <VirtualHost> tag:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/php-proxy/public
<Directory /var/www/php-proxy/public>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Make sure to replace example.com with your own domain name.
Save and close the file by pressing Ctrl+X, followed by Y, and then Enter.
If you are using Nginx, open the configuration file with your favorite text editor by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
Add the following code block inside the server block:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/php-proxy/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock; # Replace with your PHP version
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
}
Make sure to replace example.com with your own domain name and fastcgi_pass with the appropriate value for your PHP version.
Save and close the file by pressing Ctrl+X, followed by Y, and then Enter.
After configuring the web server, we need to restart it to apply the changes. Run the following command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Visit http://example.com in your web browser, replacing example.com with your domain name. If you see the PHP-Proxy homepage, it means that the installation was successful.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install PHP-Proxy on the latest version of Debian. By following these steps, you can easily set up your own proxy server and access websites that are blocked in your region.
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