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How to Create Your Own Proxy Server

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Summary: A proxy server is an excellent tool for searching the Internet, and the first step in creating a proxy server is to download the latest version of the program. Create a personal php proxy server, and select a language for it with help from an IT engineer in this free video on proxy servers.

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Ditta Izabella has an IT engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technologies and Economics. She has a variety of computer science skills, including Java, C#, PHP, .Net,...read more

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"Hi. My name is Izabella. Now, I'm going to show you how to create your own proxy server on your own. The proxy server is an excellent tool to surf on the internet. It has a different server functions. The first step to create our own proxy server is to download the latest version of the program, phpproxy, which is 2.1. After we have downloaded it we have to extract the files. OK. Here are the extracted files. Now we open it. After we have opened the folder here you can see the content of this folder. Now, we have to open any FTP client, for example, totalcommander, as you can see. On our server on the left hand side you can see we have to create a new folder, a new directory. To make it easier let's name it test. We go in the folder we have just created. OK. As you can see on the right hand side; from there we have to copy all the files to our server. OK. We have copied it. So, you can see on the server we have all these files. Now, we go to the internet and type in the name of our own map server. Type in test and we have to type in index.php. Enter. Here we can see here we have our own php proxy server. Here we can select language as you see. We have in English and now here we are. You have a php server."

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