The connection to TinyProxy Server using Windows settings
Tidal Media Inc. presents TinyProxy Easy Proxy Server for Ubuntu 18.04- fully pre-configured and easy to deploy proxy server to boost up your network performance and improve your security
This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.
- Launch instance through your Amazon account. When starting the VM proxy server starts automatically.
- To use the proxy server through the built-in Windows tools, you must open the settings.
- In Settings select “Network & Internet”.
- Go to the “Proxy” section and set the “Use a proxy server” switch to On
- In the “Address field”, enter the address of the VM, and in the “Port” field, specify 8888. Then click the “Save” button.
- To check the connection to the proxy server, open the https://www.myip.com/ website in any browser and check if your IP address has changed.
Attention: There may be a problem that with enabled proxy, you will lose your Internet connection. To fix this problem, you should restart the proxy service manually.
- To restart the proxy you should connect to the server via ssh. For example, you can connect to a VM via PuTTY – Download.
To connect to the VM, you should generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instruction (by choosing the “file format:” option “.ppk” in point 3)
Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM
- Go to the SSH section in the left panel and then to Auth.
- In the “Auth” section, click “Browse” and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.
- Go to the home page of “Session”, enter the IP address of the VM and click “Open”.
- In the opened console you will need to enter the login ubuntu
- Next, you should enter the following commands:
> sudo service tinyproxy stop
> sudo service tinyproxy start
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