yes, I want to do that. However my client is a windows XP machine. thus I have to use putty
apparently this port forwarding is working well I have a silly question : how can I configure apache to work as a proxy without cancelling my current web hosting ? I am only using virtual hosts for hosting and not sure to understand what is the other way of doing ;-) thanks etienne 2009/8/26 Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> > > > Simplest way is to forget trying to get apache to do that for you, and > just let SSH do it for you, seeing as you can SSH to that box ok. > > ssh -D 3128 <yourproxybox> > > and then setup firefox to use 127.0.0.1:3128 as a SOCKS proxy. > > The reason apache is probably not working is that it never uses that > vhost for the request. Does it work if you don't use vhosts? > > Cheers > > Tom > > >