Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Ubuntu - Install privoxy to visit blocked web

Privoxy is worked with Tor. And it can forward http requests to socks requests used by Tor.

1) To install privoxy:
sudo apt-get install privoxy
2) To config privoxy
sudo vi /etc/privoxy/config
listen-address :8118
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
3) To restart privoxy
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
4) To configure Firefox
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Network->Settings->Manual proxy Configuration:
http prosy: localhost Port: 8118