How to make a proxy on Vps?

Question

proxy

There is Vps usa, how to access the Internet from a PC through it, is it necessary to install squid?

Answer 1

The easiest way is ssh tunneling. You connect to the server with a local ssh client, specifying the option to raise a local dynamic socks proxy. In the case of the putty client, the -D option. In the browser, you prescribe the proxy 127.0.0.1:port, the port that was specified in the ssh client option. Proxy type socks5. It turns out that the browser will access the Internet through a local proxy server, but the browser traffic will be tunneled to an external VPS and exit there.

Answer 2

to put squid necessarily?

Of course not. squid is needed to speed up the connection so that sites do not timeout over ssl (ssl has very strict timeouts in the connection). It is enough to raise the tunnel with the VPS and drive traffic into it - if there is enough speed to open sites with advertisements like avito - you can do nothing else.

Answer 3

To understand what needs to be raised, I suggest reading the article: https://habr.com/ru/post/506356/
I use the dumbproxy bundle from Snawoot to raise https proxy on VPS and steady-tun on the local machine to maintain the connection and translate https proxy to regular http.
Certificates for encrypting traffic can be either generated on the VPS or obtained free of charge from, for example, https://www.sslforfree.com . To generate self-signed certificates for VPS, the same developer has ready-made software: https://github.com/Snawoot/quickcerts

Answer 4

it is possible to put not squid.
privoxy for example. or choose a software template with ready-made VPN