I don't quite understand what you're trying to do ... "to connect to my server through putty with ssh tunnel" and then later on you try to browse "a web site". Are you tying to set up apache as a proxy server (for outbound requests) and port-forwarding for inbound requests?
________________________________ From: Etienne [mailto:etie...@gnulinux.fr] Sent: 26 August 2009 15:49 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [us...@httpd] creating a proxy hi all, I would like to enable a proxy on my server with port forwarding. The idea is to connect to my server through putty with ssh tunnel forwarding localhost:80 to myproxyserver.com:80 I have enabled proxy module with a2enmod proxy command and setup a virtualhost my virtualhost (/etc/apache2/sites-available/myproxyserver) has been enabled and is as follow NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmas...@localhost ServerName myproxyserver.com ProxyRequests On ProxyVia On <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost </Proxy> </VirtualHost> when I set up proxy to 127.0.0.1 on firefox and try to access to a web site, I get the following Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. how can I fix that ? thanks etienne ********************************************************************** Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance to it. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Minorplanet Systems plc shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. Minorplanet Systems plc, Registration no: 3372097 Minorplanet Limited, Registration no: 4072786 Greenwich House, 223 North Street, Leeds, LS7 2AA VAT #: 698 1438 86 **********************************************************************
