Tinyproxy is a small, efficient, and fast HTTP proxy server that is commonly used to improve the performance of web applications by reducing the amount of data transferred between clients and servers. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing and setting up Tinyproxy on OpenBSD.
To follow this tutorial, you will need:
Before you begin the installation process, make sure that the OpenBSD package repository is up-to-date by running the following command:
# pkg_add -u
This command will update your system's package repository to the latest version.
To install the Tinyproxy package using the OpenBSD package manager, run the following command as root:
# pkg_add tinyproxy
This command will download and install the Tinyproxy package along with its dependencies.
After installing Tinyproxy, you need to configure it to work with your OpenBSD system. To do this, create a new configuration file for Tinyproxy using your preferred text editor:
# vi /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf
In the configuration file, add the following lines:
User nobody
Group nobody
Port 8888
Timeout 600
DefaultErrorFile "/usr/local/share/tinyproxy/default.html"
StatFile "/usr/local/share/tinyproxy/stats.html"
LogFile "/var/log/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.log"
LogLevel Info
PidFile "/var/run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid"
MaxClients 100
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
StartServers 10
The above configuration sets Tinyproxy to listen on port 8888, use the user "nobody" and group "nobody", and write log files to /var/log/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.log.
Once you have configured Tinyproxy, you can start the service using the following command:
# rcctl start tinyproxy
This will start the Tinyproxy service and enable it to start automatically at system boot.
To verify that Tinyproxy is working properly, you can try to access a website using the proxy server. For example, you could try to access Google's homepage by configuring your web browser to use the newly installed proxy on port 8888. If you are successful, congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Tinyproxy on OpenBSD.
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