I am trying to make a proxy server for my house to connect to the internet through. I am trying to use phpproxy, but I have no background in php or anything like this other than a little html. Can anyone show me how to do this please?

By the way here is the code included in PHPProxy

<?php

# edit this

    # set this to your client machine or proxy,

    # comment it out if you don't want protection

    $allow_ip = '1.2.3.4';

    # define this if you want PHPProxy not to connect

    # directly, but use parent proxy instead

   # $proxy_host = 'proxy.ml.lv';

   # $proxy_port = 8080;

    $proxy_host = '';

    $proxy_port = 0;

    # write debug info into server error_log

   # $debug = 1;

    $debug = 0;

# end of config

    if (!empty($allow_ip) && $REMOTE_ADDR != $allow_ip)

        exit;

function debug ($msg) {

    global $debug;

    if ($debug) error_log('phpproxy: '. $msg, 0);

}

    unset($url);

    $strip_header = 0;

    $set_content_type = 0;

    if ($REQUEST_METHOD == 'GET') {

        debug("GET request");

        # just page with inputs

        if (!isset($_GET['url'])) {

            debug("show page");

?>

<html><body>

<form method="POST">

<input type="text" name="url" size="70">

<input type="submit" name="get" value="Download">

<input type="submit" name="clickme" value="Get a link">

</form>

</body></html>

<?php

            exit;

        

        # url is hex encoded real url

        } else {

            debug("download by encoded url");

            $url = pack("H*", $_GET['url']);

            $strip_header = 1;

            debug("decoded url: $url");

        }

    } else if ($REQUEST_METHOD == 'POST') {

        debug("POST request");

        

        # just proceed to download

        if (isset($_POST['get'])) {

            debug("download by POST'ed url");

            $url = $_POST['url'];

            $strip_header = 1;

            $set_content_type = 1;

        

        # create obfuscated link end exit

        } else if (isset($_POST['clickme'])) {

            debug("create hex encoded link");

            $url = $_POST['url'];

            list (, $hex) = unpack('H'. strlen($url)*2, $url);

            $link = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .'?url='. $hex;

            #$name = substr(strrchr($url, "/"), 1);

?>

<html><body>

<a href=<?php echo $link; ?>>Right-click me</a> and Save (Link) Target As <b><?php #echo $name; ?></b>

</body></html>

<?php

            exit;

        

        # regular request from client proxy

        } else {

            debug("request from client program");

            $req = $_POST['req'];

        }

    } else {

        debug("unknown request");

        exit;

    }

    # create a request from url

    if (isset($url)) {

        debug("url is set");

        $url_c = parse_url($url);

        $req = "GET $url HTTP/1.1rn" .

               'Host: ' . $url_c['host'] . ($url_c['port'] ? ':'. $url_c['port'] : '') .

               "rnConnection: closernrn";

        debug("req: $req");

    # kill keep-alives in client request

    } else {

        debug('setting "connection: close" header');

        $nlnl = strpos($req, "rnrn");

        if (!$nlnl) $nlnl = strpos($req, "nn");

        if (!$nlnl) { debug("can't find end of headers in request"); exit; }

        $headers = substr($req, 0, $nlnl);

        $headers = preg_replace('/^Keep-Alive:.*?(n|$)/ims', '', $headers, 1);

        $headers = preg_replace('/^(Proxy-)?Connection:.*?(n|$)/ims', '', $headers, 1);

        $headers .= "rn". (!empty($proxy_host) ? 'Proxy-' : '') .'Connection: close';

        $req = $headers . substr($req, $nlnl);

    }

   

    debug("choose method");

    if (empty($proxy_host)) {

        debug("direct");

        $nl = strpos($req, "n");

        $headl = substr($req, 0, $nl);

        if(!preg_match('/(w+)s+(S+)(.*)/', $headl, $matches)) {

            debug("parse req !preg_match()");

            exit;

        }

        $url = parse_url($matches[2]);

        $host = $url["host"];

        $port = $url["port"] ? $url["port"] : 80;

        $req = $matches[1] ." ".

               ($url["path"] ? $url["path"] : '/') .

               ($url["query"] ? "?". $url["query"] : '') .

               $matches[3] . substr($req, $nl);

    } else {

        debug("proxy");

        $host = $proxy_host;

        $port = $proxy_port;

    }

    debug("host: $host; port: $port");;

    $fp = fsockopen ($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);

    if (!$fp) {

        debug("fsockopen failed: $errstr ($errno)");

        print "HTTP/1.0 500 $errstr ($errno)rn";

        print "Content-Type: text/htmlrnrn";

        print "<html><body><b>error</b></body></html>n";

        exit;

    }

    

    #socket_set_blocking($fp, 0);

    #socket_set_timeout($fp, 5, 0);

    

    debug("sending req: $req");

    fwrite($fp, $req);

    debug("before loop");

    $headers_processed = 0;

    $reponse = '';

    while (!feof($fp)) {

        $r = fread($fp, 2048);

        #debug("in loop: $r");

        if ($strip_header && !$headers_processed) {

            #debug("in loop strip headers: $r");

            debug("trying to find end of headers");

            $response .= $r;

            $nlnl = strpos($response, "rnrn"); $add = 4;

            if (!$nlnl) { $nlnl = strpos($response, "nn"); $add = 2; }

            if (!$nlnl) continue;

            debug("end of headers found");

            if ($set_content_type) {

                debug("extracting content-type");

                $headers = substr($response, 0, $nlnl);

                debug("headers: $headers");

                if (preg_match_all('/^(Content-.*?)(r?n|$)/ims', $headers, $matches)) {

                    for ($i = 0; $i < count($matches[0]); ++$i) {

                        $ct = $matches[1][$i];

                        debug("content-*: $ct");

                        header($ct);

                    }

                }

            }

            print substr($response, $nlnl + $add);

            $headers_processed = 1;

        } else

            print $r;

    }

    fclose ($fp);

    debug("after loop");

?>

Looks like you just have to place that file on a web server. So if you have a web server, place the file in your web directory, and it should enable you to use it as a proxy.

PHProxy is a program for accessing blocked internet sites from other places, it is not technical a proxy its just called PHProxy I.E. a proxy caches pages to speed them up, it can also block sites you don't want people to visit.
Try out http://3proxy.ru/
I have never used it but it has great reviews and is avaliable for Linux/UNIX and Windows

PHProxy is a program for accessing blocked internet sites from other places, it is not technical a proxy its just called PHProxy I.E. a proxy caches pages to speed them up, it can also block sites you don't want people to visit.
Try out http://3proxy.ru/
I have never used it but it has great reviews and is avaliable for Linux/UNIX and Windows

True.

If you don't want the hassle of setting up a proxy, probably the simplest is to use Google Language Translation as a http proxy.

http://onwebdevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/04/proxy-through-google-best-http-proxy.html

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