Create your own Proxy Server instantly

22 August 2010 29 Comments Posted By Ashik

Hello Friends,

Did I tell you I got a job at a very well known Company of India ( I cannot reveal the name since if I tell you then I will be violating the rules of that Company). Well it is one of the reasons for the reduction of my frequency in posting of latest hacking stuff. I had quite a lot of trouble in last few weeks with a company’s browsing restrictions. It used an extensive directory of ‘forbidden websites’ that kept out all but a few popular sites. In effect, no games sites, no personal email, and no Hacking Truths. But you don’t worry I have found out a way to break free.

None of the conventional proxy servers worked, and even Google Translate failed. My hopes were down until, yesterday, I discovered that one of my personal domains could be accessed.

Back on my home computer, in a matter of minutes, I had set up my own functioning proxy server. With the instructions below, so can you.

Prerequisites

If we want to pull this off there are a few things you need.

Web Host

In theory, any webhost will do, if they comply with the other requirements; an old computer in your basement, or even a free online webhost.

PHP5 or greater and cURL

Look for this on the website of your webhost. If it’s paid Webhosting, you can almost count on it. Especially cURL is a feature that’ll be disabled on most free webservers.

Permission

That’s right. Some webhosts will explicitly forbid you to create a proxy server (or a chat room, for that matter) in their terms of content. And you can expect them to find out.

1. Download and Install GlypeProxy

GlypeProxy is a free, standalone PHP script. That means it’s lightweight and incredibly easy to configure. You can download it from their website.

Next, upload the files to a sub directory on your webserver. If you see a folder called ‘www’, or called after your domain name (e.g. domain.com) create the sub folder in there. You need to avoid using the word ‘proxy’, because some companies pick up on it. Instead, use ‘web’ or ’surf’.

There are a few different ways to upload your files. If you already know this, skip to the next paragraph. Here they are arranged from the least to the most effort.

Upload and unpack ZIP

Look in the filemanager for an ‘unpack’ or ‘extract’ option. You can then upload it in one take. This is not always supported.

FTP access

Use an FTP application to access your webhost, and let it transfer the files while you fetch some more coffee. Most often supported.

Manual upload

You really don’t want to do this – are you sure the previous two alternatives are blanked out? Your last resolve will be to manually upload all the files and folder structures. Or start looking for a different host – it might not be such a bad idea.

2. Ready For Use

There’s no real set-up needed. Just point your browser to the directory where you put all those files (ex. domain.com/surf) and GlypeProxy will pop up. If you don’t like the logo, you’ll have to replace it manually. But if you want a proxy server for personal use, some little branding won’t matter.

Users can enter any URL and, after expanding the options, choose to encode the URL, the page, allow cookies, scripts and objects. Encoding the page can help you access some sites that are still being picked up and intercepted, but might give you a corrupt webpage at times.

3. Admin Preferences

Although Glype is a powerful proxy script, the admin tools are obviously the backing power. You might not know this, but a lot of online proxy tools are powered by Glype, just like the one you just set up. The admin preferences leave room not only for customization, but for improvement. You can assign site-specific code for trouble-giving websites, and change user-agent and proxy lists.

Most useful to novice users will be the caching tools (pictured above), logs, and blacklists. The caching tools can help you improve the browsing speed by storing some files from all, or some of the already visited websites. Logs are off by default, but might have legal importance in the future, depending on who uses your proxy server. Always explicitly mention you’re keeping these logs. Finally, the blacklists will allow you to block (all but) a few sites, or users.

To access your admin panel, point your browser to admin.php on your webserver (e.g. domain.com/surf/admin.php).

Are you setting up your own personal proxy server? Do you have any other tips or experiences on the issue? Let us know in the comments below!

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29 Comments »

Mahesh said:

Thanks for the cool info.. I’ll set up my own proxy server, so I can access sites from my college’s broadband!

-Mahesh.

# 23 August 2010 at 11:30 am

jayaraj said:

nice i wanna start a proxy

# 23 August 2010 at 5:40 pm

KRISHNA said:

i cant access the admin section, can u pls tell me the passwprd & username to access the admin session. if it is not possible kindly tell me how can i change the password and username in that php script.

(i am not much familiar with php programming)

# 23 August 2010 at 6:32 pm

Alex Chekholko said:

It’s even easier if you have SSH access to a box. Then you can just use the proxy functionality built into OpenSSH. Check out the “-D” option.

Example: http://yalb.net/?p=164

# 24 August 2010 at 1:33 am

shashank said:

nyce share

# 25 August 2010 at 6:22 am

moda said:

i hav idia,mobile company like vodafone leave some ports open how can i make proxy sever with this ports to access the internet by pass this ports

# 25 August 2010 at 6:55 am

Senthilkumar.P said:

Thank you.. such a nice article.. keep it up..

# 25 August 2010 at 11:06 am

sanjeet said:

i like ur blog most.. bcoz it is full fill of new tricks and concepts…………………

# 29 August 2010 at 4:26 pm

Pradeep said:

You can also try squid proxy! It s a more powerful tool

# 3 September 2010 at 3:02 pm

Abdullah said:

guys you can use ultrasurf 9.1 insted it is much more userfrindly than this

# 7 September 2010 at 8:22 am

jp said:

can someone help me create my own personal server

# 16 September 2010 at 10:23 pm

muhammed said:

pls guys i will be very greatful if you guys can help me. the explanation above is a bit ok, but not fully understood by me. can somebody put me through on how to create a server for “india web proxy” software? i will be very grateful to that my new friend for life..
my email is [email protected]
my facebook id: aruna saliu muhammed. pls reach me am waiting. thanks.

# 18 September 2010 at 11:11 am

jasmin said:

i want proxy setting for vodacom on firefox what should i set my home page to get free browsing email me [email protected]

# 25 September 2010 at 8:28 pm

nursing schools said:

this post is very usefull thx!

# 26 September 2010 at 1:10 am

Irerunde said:

This guy you are a genius, I tried it and it worked. So I think there’s more to learn with the use of php scriptng now.

# 27 September 2010 at 2:15 pm

robert said:

i am a member of this site, pls i want to crete a proxy for myself, i am having the domin but how do i upload the file.how do i start somebody teach me the bases. pls

# 30 September 2010 at 10:18 pm

MoHaNnD said:

VERY NICE IT’S VERY COOL INFO

# 10 October 2010 at 11:18 pm

UCHE said:

Goodday,please my master hackers i will like 2 get indian web proxy (iwp) server.PAID 1. Thanks wentin 2 read from u…

# 29 October 2010 at 6:19 am

Samson said:

Pls i enjoyed your article but l’m still confused about having my own server and l really need help.

# 18 November 2010 at 2:28 pm

ALEXANDRA said:

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# 23 December 2010 at 4:03 am

rahul said:

hey frn, plzz tell me how can i see that how many ports are opened on my computer for connections. yet i know that how to confirm that this proxy is in working by wtiting in link — http://localhost8080 — where 8080 is the port number. i also know how to make port. by installing any server software. like apachetomcat 6.0 or oracle9i or my sql etc…
pls send ur reply on my email id [email protected]

# 23 December 2010 at 10:25 pm

nikhil said:

It’s better to use your own local server with php5 and curl. You can surf and install the server on the same computer and when you want to surf just run the server and browse

# 6 January 2011 at 2:12 pm

Tarun said:

hie i was really interested in such kind of awsme stuff…really … thks a lot…

# 11 February 2011 at 9:59 pm

manou said:

thank for the info;
i wonder how to set up wireless device to use this proxy?
I have set up a proxy server on my host, I have set it up in a sub folder,
Now I want to set my iphone using this proxy,(wifi)
what ip and port number i use?

appreciate your help

# 11 March 2011 at 2:18 am

amit said:

i like ur blog most.. bcoz it is full fill of new tricks and concepts…………………

# 28 March 2011 at 2:27 am

suraj said:

Goodday,please my master hackers i will like 2 get indian web proxy (iwp) server.PAID 1. Thanks wentin 2 read from u…

# 28 March 2011 at 2:28 am

raju said:

You can also try squid proxy! It s a more powerful tool

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# 4 April 2011 at 10:11 pm

suraj said:

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# 18 August 2011 at 8:10 am

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