I need to set up a proxy with authentication to verify the behavior of an application that connects to the internet.
I am trying to set-up an Apache installation with forward proxy and authentication, and even though I am close to make it work, I wonder if there is maybe a better way, as the configuration is fairly esoteric.
How can Apache be configured to work this way?
Is there any other good option that is already configured? Maybe some VM or some other software tool, instead of Apache?
In addition to being a "basic" web server, and providing static and dynamic content to end-users, Apache httpd (as well as most other web servers) can also act as a reverse proxy server, also-known-as a "gateway" server.
For the record, this is how I set up apache to be used as a forward-proxy with basic authentication:
Open http.conf
Uncomment the following LoadModule directives to enable proxy funcionality
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
Add the following directives to the http.conf to enable authentication
ProxyRequests On ProxyVia On <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all AuthType Basic AuthName "Password Required" AuthUserFile password.file AuthGroupFile group.file Require group usergroup </Proxy>
Create a password.file using the htpasswd.exe utility. Place it on the Apache Root directory
htpasswd.exe -c password.file username
Create a group.file using a text editor at the same level as the password.file with the following contents
usergroup: username
Then run apachectl restart
to pick up the configuration changes.
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