Tinyproxy is a lightweight and fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server. In this tutorial, we will install Tinyproxy on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before we start the installation process, we need to make sure that our system has the following components:
Follow the steps given below to install Tinyproxy on EndeavourOS Latest:
First, we need to update the system with the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
We can install Tinyproxy by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S tinyproxy
Now that Tinyproxy is installed, we can configure it by editing its configuration file.
sudo nano /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf
We need to make the following changes:
# Only allow connection from local interface
Allow 127.0.0.1
# Allow connections from other machines on the local network
Allow 192.168.0.0/16
# Disable upstream proxy
Upstream ""
Save and exit the configuration file.
After configuring Tinyproxy, we can start it with the following command:
sudo systemctl start tinyproxy
To verify the installation of Tinyproxy, we can use the curl command to access a webpage through the proxy:
curl -x http://127.0.0.1:8888 https://www.example.com
We should see the content of the example.com website printed in the terminal.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install and configure Tinyproxy on EndeavourOS Latest. Tinyproxy is a useful tool for proxying web traffic on local networks.
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