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NAME

       tinyproxy.conf - Tinyproxy HTTP proxy daemon configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       tinyproxy.conf

DESCRIPTION

       tinyproxy(8) reads its configuration file, typically stored in
       /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf (or passed to Tinyproxy with -c on the
       command line). This manpage describes the syntax and contents of the
       configuration file.

       The Tinyproxy configuration file contains key-value pairs, one per
       line. Lines starting with # and empty lines are comments and are
       ignored. Keywords are case-insensitive, whereas values are
       case-sensitive. Values may be enclosed in double-quotes (") if they
       contain spaces.

       The possible keywords and their descriptions are as follows:

       User
           The user which the Tinyproxy process should run as, after the
           initial port-binding has been done as the root user. Either the
           user name or the UID may be specified.

       Group
           The group which the Tinyproxy process should run as, after the
           initial port-binding has been done as the root user. Either the
           group name or the GID may be specified.

       Port
           The port which the Tinyproxy service will listen on. If the port is
           less than 1024, you will need to start the Tinyproxy process as the
           root user.

       Listen
           By default, Tinyproxy listens for connections on all available
           interfaces (i.e. it listens on the wildcard address 0.0.0.0). With
           this configuration parameter, Tinyproxy can be told to listen only
           on one specific address.

       Bind
           This allows you to specify which address Tinyproxy will bind to for
           outgoing connections to web servers or upstream proxies.

       BindSame
           If this boolean parameter is set to yes, then Tinyproxy will bind
           the outgoing connection to the IP address of the incoming
           connection that triggered the outgoing request.

       Timeout
           The maximum number of seconds of inactivity a connection is allowed
           to have before it is closed by Tinyproxy.

       ErrorFile
           This parameter controls which HTML file Tinyproxy returns when a
           given HTTP error occurs. It takes two arguments, the error number
           and the location of the HTML error file.

       DefaultErrorFile
           This parameter controls the HTML template file returned when an
           error occurs for which no specific error file has been set.

       StatHost
           This configures the host name or IP address that is treated as the
           stat host: Whenever a request for this host is received, Tinyproxy
           will return an internal statistics page instead of forwarding the
           request to that host. The template for this page can be configured
           with the StatFile configuration option. The default value of
           StatHost is tinyproxy.stats.

       StatFile
           This configures the HTML file that Tinyproxy sends when a request
           for the stathost is received. If this parameter is not set,
           Tinyproxy returns a hard-coded basic statistics page. See the
           STATHOST section in the tinyproxy(8) manual page for details.

           Note that the StatFile and the error files configured with
           ErrorFile and DefaultErrorFile are template files that can contain
           a few template variables that Tinyproxy expands prior to delivery.
           Examples are "{cause}" for an abbreviated error description and
           "{detail}" for a detailed error message. The tinyproxy(8) manual
           page contains a description of all template variables.

       LogFile
           This controls the location of the file to which Tinyproxy writes
           its debug output. Alternatively, Tinyproxy can log to syslog — see
           the Syslog option.

       Syslog
           When set to On, this option tells Tinyproxy to write its debug
           messages to syslog instead of to a log file configured with
           LogFile. These two options are mutually exclusive.

       LogLevel
           Sets the log level. Messages from the set level and above are
           logged. For example, if the LogLevel was set to Warning, then all
           log messages from Warning to Critical would be output, but Notice
           and below would be suppressed. Allowed values are:

           ·   Critical (least verbose)

           ·   Error

           ·   Warning

           ·   Notice

           ·   Connect (log connections without Info’s noise)

           ·   Info (most verbose)

       PidFile
           This option controls the location of the file where the main
           Tinyproxy process stores its process ID for signaling purposes.

       XTinyproxy
           Setting this option to Yes tells Tinyproxy to add a header
           X-Tinyproxy containing the client’s IP address to the request.

       Upstream, No Upstream
           This option allows you to set up a set of rules for deciding
           whether an upstream proxy server is to be used, based on the host
           or domain of the site being accessed. The rules are stored in the
           order encountered in the configuration file and the LAST matching
           rule wins. There are three possible forms for specifying upstream
           rules:

           ·    upstream host:port turns proxy upstream support on generally.

           ·    upstream host:port "site_spec" turns on the upstream proxy for
               the sites matching site_spec.

           ·    no upstream "site_spec" turns off upstream support for sites
               matching site_spec.

                   The site can be specified in various forms as a hostname, domain
                   name or as an IP range:

           ·    name matches host exactly

           ·    .name matches any host in domain "name"

           ·    .  matches any host with no domain (in empty domain)

           ·    IP/bits matches network/mask

           ·    IP/mask matches network/mask

       MaxClients
           Tinyproxy creates one child process for each connected client. This
           options specifies the absolute highest number processes that will
           be created. With other words, only MaxClients clients can be
           connected to Tinyproxy simultaneously.

       MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers
           Tinyproxy always keeps a certain number of idle child processes so
           that it can handle new incoming client requests quickly.
           MinSpareServer and MaxSpareServers control the lower and upper
           limits for the number of spare processes. I.e. when the number of
           spare servers drops below MinSpareServers then Tinyproxy will start
           forking new spare processes in the background and when the number
           of spare processes exceeds MaxSpareServers then Tinyproxy will kill
           off extra processes.

       StartServers
           The number of servers to start initially. This should usually be
           set to a value between MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers.

       MaxRequestsPerChild
           This limits the number of connections that a child process will
           handle before it is killed. The default value is 0 which disables
           this feature. This option is meant as an emergency measure in the
           case of problems with memory leakage. In that case, setting
           MaxRequestsPerChild to a value of e.g. 1000, or 10000 can be
           useful.

       Allow, Deny
           The Allow and Deny options provide a means to customize which
           clients are allowed to access Tinyproxy.  Allow and Deny lines can
           be specified multiple times to build the access control list for
           Tinyproxy. The order in the config file is important. If there are
           no Allow or Deny lines, then all clients are allowed. Otherwise,
           the default action is to deny access. The argument to Allow or Deny
           can be a single IP address of a client host, like 127.0.0.1, an IP
           address range, like 192.168.0.1/24 or a string that will be matched
           against the end of the client host name, i.e, this can be a full
           host name like host.example.com or a domain name like .example.com
           or even a top level domain name like .com.

       AddHeader
           Configure one or more HTTP request headers to be added to outgoing
           HTTP requests that Tinyproxy makes. Note that this option will not
           work for HTTPS traffic, as Tinyproxy has no control over what
           headers are exchanged.

           AddHeader "X-My-Header" "Powered by Tinyproxy"

       ViaProxyName
           RFC 2616 requires proxies to add a Via header to the HTTP requests,
           but using the real host name can be a security concern. If the
           ViaProxyname option is present, then its string value will be used
           as the host name in the Via header. Otherwise, the server’s host
           name will be used.

       DisableViaHeader
           When this is set to yes, Tinyproxy does NOT add the Via header to
           the requests. This virtually puts Tinyproxy into stealth mode. Note
           that RFC 2616 requires proxies to set the Via header, so by
           enabling this option, you break compliance. Don’t disable the Via
           header unless you know what you are doing...

       Filter
           Tinyproxy supports filtering of web sites based on URLs or domains.
           This option specifies the location of the file containing the
           filter rules, one rule per line.

       FilterURLs
           If this boolean option is set to Yes or On, filtering is performed
           for URLs rather than for domains. The default is to filter based on
           domains.

       FilterExtended
           If this boolean option is set to Yes, then extended POSIX regular
           expressions are used for matching the filter rules. The default is
           to use basic POSIX regular expressions.

       FilterCaseSensitive
           If this boolean option is set to Yes, then the filter rules are
           matched in a case sensitive manner. The default is to match
           case-insensitively.

       FilterDefaultDeny
           The default filtering policy is to allow everything that is not
           matched by a filtering rule. Setting FilterDefaultDeny to Yes
           changes the policy do deny everything but the domains or URLs
           matched by the filtering rules.

       Anonymous
           If an Anonymous keyword is present, then anonymous proxying is
           enabled. The headers listed with Anonymous are allowed through,
           while all others are denied. If no Anonymous keyword is present,
           then all headers are allowed through. You must include quotes
           around the headers.

           Most sites require cookies to be enabled for them to work
           correctly, so you will need to allow cookies through if you access
           those sites.

           Example:

           Anonymous "Host"
           Anonymous "Authorization"
           Anonymous "Cookie"

       ConnectPort
           This option can be used to specify the ports allowed for the
           CONNECT method. If no ConnectPort line is found, then all ports are
           allowed. To disable CONNECT altogether, include a single
           ConnectPort line with a value of 0.

       ReversePath
           Configure one or more ReversePath directives to enable reverse
           proxy support. With reverse proxying it’s possible to make a number
           of sites appear as if they were part of a single site.

           If you uncomment the following two directives and run Tinyproxy on
           your own computer at port 8888, you can access example.com, using
           http://localhost:8888/example/.

           ReversePath "/example/" "http://www.example.com/"

       ReverseOnly
           When using Tinyproxy as a reverse proxy, it is STRONGLY recommended
           that the normal proxy is turned off by setting this boolean option
           to Yes.

       ReverseMagic
           Setting this option to Yes, makes Tinyproxy use a cookie to track
           reverse proxy mappings. If you need to reverse proxy sites which
           have absolute links you must use this option.

       ReverseBaseURL
           The URL that is used to access this reverse proxy. The URL is used
           to rewrite HTTP redirects so that they won’t escape the proxy. If
           you have a chain of reverse proxies, you’ll need to put the
           outermost URL here (the address which the end user types into
           his/her browser). If this option is not set then no rewriting of
           redirects occurs.

BUGS

       To report bugs in Tinyproxy, please visit
       <https://www.banu.com/tinyproxy/>.

SEE ALSO

       tinyproxy(8)

AUTHOR

       Written by the Tinyproxy project team.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Steven Young; Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Robert
       James Kaes; Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Mukund Sivaraman; Copyright (c)
       2009-2010 Michael Adam.

       This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
       License version 2 or above. See the COPYING file for additional
       information.