I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to do … “to connect to my server through putty with ssh tunnel” and then later on you try to browse “a web site”. Are you tying to set up apache as a proxy server (for outbound requests) and port-forwarding for inbound requests?

From: Etienne [mailto:etienne@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 August 2009 15:49
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: creating a proxy

hi all,

I would like to enable a proxy on my server with port forwarding.
The idea is to connect to my server through putty with ssh tunnel forwarding localhost:80 to myproxyserver.com:80
I have enabled proxy module with a2enmod proxy command and setup a virtualhost
my virtualhost (/etc/apache2/sites-available/myproxyserver) has been enabled and is as follow

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName myproxyserver.com
        ProxyRequests On
        ProxyVia On

        <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
Allow from localhost

        </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

when I set up proxy to 127.0.0.1 on firefox and try to access to a web site, I get the following

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

how can I fix that ?

thanks

etienne

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RE: creating a proxy

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