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This page will guide you throughsetting up a proxy server on your Mac computer. You might want to do this if you have other devices on your network that do not support connecting to our service directly, such as a Wii, PS Vita, PS3, or PS4.
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- Enter proxy server settings on Mac. If your computer is connected to a local network that’s protected from the internet by a firewall, you may need to specify proxy servers or use the FTP passive mode (PASV) to access some internet sites. A proxy server is a computer on a local network that acts as an intermediary between a single computer.
If you’ve already got a working proxy server, you may refer to one of our guides below to configure your other devices to connect to it.
If you’re looking to set up your proxy server on a Windows computer, kindly refer to our guide below instead.
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To configure a proxy server on your Mac computer, follow the steps below.
Step 1: Getting Started
In this example we will use an open source solution called SquidMan, although this may sound like a daft name, Squid is one of the most respected proxy servers available and SquidMan is simply the management interface for it.
Once you have come to terms with the name, we will continue……
Firstly, download the latest version of SquidMan 3.8 proxy server application.
You will be prompted to confirm that you wish to continue downloading, click Continue.
Once it has downloaded, Finder will show it in a new window. Drag the Squidman icon into application folder.
Step 2: Installing the SquidMan proxy server
Navigate to the Application folder and double-click on the SquidMan icon to install.
When the installation is successful, you will have the window as below
Step 3: Proxy Server Configuration
Open SquidMan and start the proxy by pushing the Start Squid button.
If everything goes well, the status message should change to Squid is running.
In order to test the proxy locally on the Mac, you’ll need to adjust your network settings to use this proxy for HTTP traffic.
Open the System Preferences panel and click the Network icon.
Now click on your local internet connection. The image below assumes it is a wired connection.
Note: You may also wish to create a new ‘Location’ that uses the Squid proxy, such as “Work-Squid”, or something like that to make switching easier.
Ensure that Web Proxy (HTTP) is checked.
In the Web Proxy Server field, designate it as localhost, with the Port field as 8080. (Refer to the image below)
Click on Apply Now to save your changes.
Congratulations! You have just setup a proxy server on your Mac computer. With everything running, open a web browser and attempt to access an external page such as google.com.
If everything is set up correctly, you will be able to access internet. Now you can add your computer’s IP address with the proxy server port 8080 at the machine/devices that you want connected to.
Step 4: Establishing Proxy Server Connection
In order to tell another device to use the proxy server, you need to know the local IP address of your computer.
You can check the IP Address of your Mac computer as follows:
- Click on the Apple icon on the top left of the screen.
- Open System Preferences.
- Click on Network.
- Select which connection you’d like to check in the left pane. If you’re hooked up via a LAN cable, select Ethernet. If you’re on a Wireless network, select Wi-Fi.
- Click on Advanced.
- Click TCP/IP from the tabs and your IP address will appear next to “IPv4 Address“.
Once you have the IP address, you can go to your other device and tell it to use the proxy server on your computer. You do this by specifying the IP Address and Port of the proxy service. In this case, the port will be 8080(which is the port you’d configured earlier) and the IP Address is the one you had determined above.
Once you have configured your device to use the proxy service, it will always connect via your computer and therefore if your computer is connected to our VPN service, the proxy will also go through the VPN. This also means that your computer must be switched on for the device to connect to the Internet.
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Client-side setup
- Install Shadowsocks Client, e.g. run
brew cask install shadowsocksx
in Mac OSX. - SwitchSharp
Only config
SOCKS Host
to 127.0.0.1:1080
and select SOCKS v5
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/4/126472402/360815095.png)
Reference
Mac Proxy Setting
Using Proxychains-ng to socksify your command
- Install
proxychains-ng
by runningbrew install proxychains-ng
. - Config
/usr/local/Cellar/proxychains-ng/4.7/etc/proxychains.conf
, modify the following parameters.
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- Add
proxychains4
to the front of every command, e.g.proxychains4 curl ipecho.net/plain
Also works for Application like
Google Chrome
while Safari
does not work, try proxychains4 /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
.But this might slow down Chrome.You can also use dsocks for mac(which does not work for me), tsocks for linux.
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Using Unix Proxy Environment Variable
Add this script to
~/.bash_profile
.Config curl
to use SOCKS5(Also works for homebrew
)
Add the following line to
~/.curlrc
. Since homebrew
use curl
to download the package, this will also enable homebrew
to use SOCKS5.There are no environment variables for SOCKS5 proxy servers in unix, so in order to use SOCKS5 in other utilities, check the man pages for existing tools to see if they have a configuration option for a SOCKS5 proxy and whether they have a configuration file that the configuration can be added to.
Config git
to use SOCKS5
- For
https://
andhttp://
(e.g.http://github.com
,https://github.com
), run the following script.
- For
git://
(e.g.git://github.com
), rungit config --global core.gitproxy 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080'
- For ssh(e.g.
[email protected]
,ssh://[email protected]
), addProxyCommand nc -x localhost:1080 %h %p
to~/.ssh/config
file.
git config --global
is stored in ~/.gitconfig
while local config settings is in ./.git/config
.To remove a configuration, e.g. run git config --global --unset core.gitproxy
.