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Ligth weight, free, proxy virtual appliance vmware

Hi,

I'm looking for a light weight free proxy virtual appliance.
It should be easy to setup, use little resources (1GB RAM, little cpu). It's only for use in a lab environment, 2 users max.

Please advise.
J.

Alex

when you say a free proxy virtual appliance, I assume you mean a web proxy?

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Alex

I was going to recommend SQUID but HAProxy is pretty decent as well, we use that at work.

janhoedt

ASKER

Thanks Andrew! Great idea indeed but unfortunately I don't see it listed in my packages on Synology.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

You may have not added the Syno Community package resource?

http://packages.synocommunity.com

janhoedt

ASKER

Thanks! I did configure it but can't make it work. However, it looks like a load balancer, not a proxy server.
"HAProxy, or High Availability Proxy is used by RightScale for load balancing in the cloud."

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

It offers Load Balancing features, as well as Proxy.

see Chapter 4 - 4. Proxies

The full manual is here
http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/doc/configuration.txt

janhoedt

ASKER

Ah ok, but I have a gui. Not clear to me what to configure.

janhoedt

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Please see https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28361795/Configure-ha-proxy-on-synology-as-proxy.html
I 've found 4553 is the port it is running on but it is "refusing connections"

janhoedt

ASKER

Great idea, this haproxy, but haven't been able to make it work at all and no clues howto make it work.

Please advise on another proxy server. Squid worked fine on my Synology but for some reason the ipkg does not work anymore after reboot so that's not an option anymore.