Configure Apache Web server to use a proxy server

Question

I want to configure Apache web server to use a proxy server, so that all the outbound requests go through this proxy server. Could you please help me how to do this? I tried with Proxifier, but it didn't help me much.

Answer 1

If you need to proxy outbound requests, you can use ProxyRemote from mod_proxy http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyremote

ProxyRemote * http://ip.of.proxY.host:port

Answer 2

If you're using Apache the simpler way is to define a global variable http_proxy. On RedHat like edit /etc/sysconfig/httpd and adjust these two lines to your environment:

export http_proxy="http://proxy:8080/" 
export https_proxy="http://proxy:8080/"