Features/Automatic Proxy Settings
Summary
Allow the user to setup transparent Proxy service.
Owner
Current status
- Targeted release: 0.98
- Last updated: 2013-01-07
- Percentage of completion: 80%
Detailed Description
Sugar deployments and users need to be able to set a proxy to access some network services.
In this entry you can learn a way of configuring automatic proxy server (PAC and WPAD) for testing purposes.
For testing a proxy in XO you can go to: Features/Proxy Settings
Benefit to Sugar
See Detailed Description.
Scope
It's not directly related to XO, it's just a part for building an environment for automatic proxy testing in XO
PAC - Proxy Auto Config
PAC method for proxy is very simple. You have to create a web-accessible file with special syntax in which you include proxy server data. This example works with Apache server. You can take a look to Bibliograpy for mor info about PAC file configuration and installation in other webservers.
Steps:
- Create .htaccess file and add the following content: AddType application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig .pac
- Create PAC file and add the following content:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
return "PROXY PROXY_SERVER_IP_OR_HOSTNAME:PORT";
}
- Upload both file to the same location:
mv proxy.pac /var/www/proxy.pac mv .htaccess /var/www/.htaccess
- Restart apache /etc/init.d/apache2 restart