<h1>Installation</h1>

<h3>Open Terminal or use SSH to connect to your Terminal remotely</h3>
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<strong>Notes:</strong> in my case i'll be using putty to connect to my VPS remotely

<h3>Install Squid3 and Apache tools.</h3>
<code>apt-get update</code>
<code>apt-get install squid3 apache2-utils</code>
<code>apt-get install nano</code>

<h1>Backup and replace Squid3 Configuration</h1>

<h3>Backup current Squid3 settings.</h3>

<code>cp /etc/squid3/squid.conf /etc/squid3/squid.conf.bak</code>

<h3>Open and replace the content in /etc/squid3/squid.conf with the following:</h3>
<pre><code>http_port 3128
auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid3/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid3/.passwd
auth_param basic children 1
auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 minute
auth_param basic casesensitive off
acl auth proxy_auth REQUIRED
acl localhost src 127.0.0.0/8
http_access allow auth
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all
cache deny all
forwarded_for delete
request_header_access Via deny all
</code></pre>
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<p><strong>Notes:</strong> The default port for Squid is 3128, change it to another port for better security.<br>
<strong>Notes: </strong>You can use nano or your favorite text editor to change squid.conf<br>
<strong>Notes: </strong> <code> nano /etc/squid3/squid.conf </code>
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<h1>Create Squid3 User</h1>

<h3>Create a new user to login to the Squid3 server.</h3>

<code>htpasswd -c /etc/squid3/.passwd YOUR_USER_NAME</code><br>
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<h3>use perl to create your authentication. You can also use Apache tools to create your authentication</h3>

<code>echo -e "YOUR_USERNAME:`perl -le 'print crypt("YOUR_PASSWORD","salt")'`" > /etc/squid3/.passwd</code><br>
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<strong>Notes: </strong> you should rename <strong>salt</strong> to a random string. if you don't know what a <strong>salt</strong> is, you can read up on this wikipage: [link to salt(cryptography) wikipedia!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)) 


<h3>Restart your Squid3 service</h3>

<code>/etc/init.d/squid3 restart</code><br>
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<strong>Notes:</strong> If everything went right, you should have a functioning proxy server now.

<h3>Activating and Configuring your internet properties for windows 10</h3>
<p>Press the windows start menu and type: <strong>internet options</strong></p>
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<p>Press the <strong>Connections</strong> tab and press the <strong>Lan settings</strong> button</p>
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<p>Press the  <strong>Advanced</strong> button</p>
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<p>Change The HTTP proxy address, i'll be using a IPV6 instead of a IPV4 in my case</p>
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<strong>Notes:</strong> IPV6 needs brackets around it's address <strong>[IPV6-ADDRESS]</strong><br><br>

<p>Open you favorite browser, you should now be prompted for username and login we made earlier during the installation</p>
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<p>Congratulations, you have now fully installed and setup a proxy server that is ready for use.</p>