SSH – How to Create SSH Tunnel for HTTP Proxy

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Say I have a server and client. I need to create connection from client to a website through server like it was proxy.

Is it possible to do this using a SSH tunel, or do I have to install some proxy service to the server?

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You can do this using ssh

ssh -L 80:remotehost:80 user@myserver

You will have a tunnel from your local port 80 to the remotehost port 80 then. This does not have to be the same as myserver. To make that transparent you should add an entry to the hosts file. If you don't do that vhosts will not work. If you want a SOCKS-proxy connection you could also use

ssh -D 5000 user@myserver

This will create a SOCKS-proxy on localhost port 5000 which routes all requests through myserver.

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SSH Tunnel – How to Configure a Shortcut for SSH Connection

As a more concrete version of Kyle's answer, what you want to put in your ~/.ssh/config file is:

host foo
  User webby
  ProxyCommand ssh a nc -w 3 %h %p

host a
  User johndoe

Then, when you run "ssh foo", SSH will attempt to SSH to johndoe@a, run netcat (nc), then perform an SSH to webby@foo through this tunnel. Magic!

Of course, in order to do this, netcat needs to be installed on the gateway server; this package is available for every major distribution and OS.

SSH Tunnel as Proxy – No Data Returned Issue

-D option allocates a socket to listen on port 8080. So, make sure that you enter the proxy info into SOCKS Host, not HTTP Proxy.

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