In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tinyproxy on Manjaro. Tinyproxy is a lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy server designed for speed, security, and ease of use. It is ideal for use in small to medium-sized installations.
Before installing Tinyproxy on Manjaro, you need to make sure you have the following:
First, we need to make sure that the system is up-to-date. To do this, open a terminal and enter the following command:
sudo pacman -Syyu
Now that the system is up-to-date, we can proceed to install Tinyproxy. To do this, open a terminal and enter the following command:
sudo pacman -S tinyproxy
This will download and install Tinyproxy on your Manjaro system.
By default, Tinyproxy is configured to only allow connections from the local machine. If you want to allow connections from other machines, you will need to edit the configuration file.
To edit the configuration file, open a terminal and enter the following command:
sudo nano /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf
In the configuration file, you can change the following settings:
After making any changes, save the configuration file and exit the editor.
To start Tinyproxy, enter the following command:
sudo systemctl start tinyproxy.service
To enable Tinyproxy to start automatically at boot time, enter the following command:
sudo systemctl enable tinyproxy.service
To test Tinyproxy, you can use a web browser or command-line tool like curl to connect to the proxy server. To do this, set the proxy server in the browser or curl command.
For example, to test Tinyproxy with curl, enter the following command:
curl --proxy http://localhost:8888 https://www.google.com/
This should return the HTML source code for the Google homepage.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Tinyproxy on Manjaro. We also demonstrated how to configure and test the proxy server. With Tinyproxy, you can easily set up a lightweight and secure HTTP/HTTPS proxy server on your Manjaro system.
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