Use SSH to Create an HTTP Proxy

SOCKS is built in to OpenSSH, so it's a trivial matter to set up a local SOCKS proxy with the -D flag.

For example:

$ ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server

will open up the port 12345 on your local machine as a SOCKS proxy so all your HTTP traffic can be specified to go through the SSH tunnel and out remote_ssh_server on the other end. Your proxy server is now set up.

Next, set up your browser to use the proxy server. Most browsers include proxy support. For Firefox 3, go to Edit→Preferences→Advanced→Network→Settings, and specify that you want to use a Manual Proxy, localhost, port 12345 and SOCKS v5 (although OpenSSH supports both versions 4 and 5).

Now your browser is using a secure tunnel to your remote SSH server.

How to build LAPP (Linux + Apache + Postgres + PHP) easy

This LAPP is to be built based on Ubuntu (or Debian or any derivative of the Ubuntu)

Install Postgresql

sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.1 php5-pgsql

Install Apache

• The following mod-security, ldap, and odbc libraries are optional:

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-security php5-ldap php5-odbc

• Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart




============== below are optional or if you know what to do please skip ============== 

Install other software (optional)

sudo apt-get install openssh-server unattended-upgrades
sudo apt-get install unzip zip aspell-en aspell-fr aspell-de aspell-es
sudo apt-get install curl php5-curl php5-xmlrpc
sudo apt-get install clamav-base clamav-freshclam clamav

Configure Postgres (if you know what to do please skip)

• Create the database user 'webuser'.

sudo -u postgres createuser -D -A -P webuser

Enter in a NewDatabasePassword here, then answer 'N' to the question.

• Create the database 'webdb' for the user 'webuser'. Enter the password that you just created.

sudo -u postgres createdb -E utf8 -O webuser webdb

• Secure the postgresql database with an admin password.

sudo -u postgres psql template1
# ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'NewAdminDatabasePassword';
# \q

• Edit the file '/etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf' and on line 79 change the words ident sameuser to md5.

sudo nano /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf

• Restart the database:

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 restart