Tinyproxy not forwarding requests. Getting Unauthorized connection from <IP>

Question

I have installed tinyproxy in CentOS 7 machine and changed the port to 8080 in tinyproxy.conf Wherenever I am hitting request I am getting following logs in tinyproxy.log:-

CONNECT   Mar 15 08:14:42 [22148]: Connect (file descriptor 6): <IP> [<IP>]
NOTICE    Mar 15 08:14:42 [22148]: Unauthorized connection from "<IP>" [<IP>].
INFO      Mar 15 08:14:42 [22148]: Read request entity of 1200 bytes

My request is reaching to proxy and proxy is not forwarding it to the destination.

Answer 1

In the Tinyproxy config file (/etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf) you can use the Allow directive to explicitly specify the host(s) that will be connecting to the proxy. You can also comment out or remove all Allow <host> lines to allow connections from all hosts. See below description from the config file (here I've commented out Allow 127.0.0.1 and since there are no other entries all connections will be allowed):

# Allow: Customization of authorization controls. If there are any
# access control keywords then the default action is to DENY. Otherwise,
# the default action is ALLOW.
#
# The order of the controls are important. All incoming connections are
# tested against the controls based on order.
#
#Allow 127.0.0.1