[wplug] Proxy Question

Brandon Poyner bpoyner at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 11:07:22 EDT 2007


On 8/28/07, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:
> So one thing to mention, this is for people who are a bit older and
> not technically inclined.  There are some Mac users, and some PC
> users.
>
> Getting them to use PuTTY or SSH is actually a great way to do it, but
> I don't think they'll be able to handle it.  Really, if they have to
> change the proxy settings on their browser then they're way over their
> heads.

How about configuring a reverse proxy using Apache or your web server
of choice?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html

I admit I haven't tried this, but if it works it would be a
zero-configuration solution for the family.

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Brandon
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