Technical data

4. Packages
PRIVOXY_x_LISTEN Specify IP addresses or symbolic names including portnumber of the
interface here on which Privoxy should listen to clients. It is a good idea to specify
only trusted interfaces because all clients have full access to privoxy (and its activated
configuration editor). Normally setting IP_NET_1_IPADDR:8118 makes most sense.
Privoxy will listen to the addresses set here offering its services. The default port is
8118. This setting has to be used in the proxy configuration of your Internet browser.
Additional informations on client configuration can be found at http://www.privoxy.org/
Define your fli4l name (see HOSTNAME in base.txt) or its IP (i.e. 192.168.6.1) as a proxy in
your client. With the port number set here all data necessary to configure a web browser
for using privoxy is provided.
PRIVOXY_x_ALLOW_N Set the number of list entries.
PRIVOXY_x_ALLOW_x List of nets and/or IP addresses for which the packet filter has to
be opened. Default: IP_NET_1.
PRIVOXY_x_ACTIONDIR This variable sets the path to the privoxy rulesets (default.action
and user.action) on the router. This variable can be used for two things:
Moving rulesets to permanent storage If you specify a path outside of the RAM disk
standard rulesets will be copied there on first boot and further on the new path
is used. Changes to rulesets will survice reboots then. Please note that changed
rulesets due to privoxy updates will be ignored.
Use of own rulesets fli4l allows standard rulesets to be overwritten by user defined rule-
sets. Create a subdirectory (i.e. etc/my_privoxy - but not etc/privoxy!) in the config
directory to place your own rulesets there.
Setting this variable is optional.
PRIVOXY_x_HTTP_PROXY If an additional http proxy should be used in conjunction
with privoxy (i.e. as a webcache) it can be specified here. Privoxy will use this proxy
then. An entry could be like this:
PRIVOXY_1_HTTP_PROXY='my.provider.de:8000'
This setting is optional.
PRIVOXY_x_SOCKS_PROXY If another SOCKS proxy should be used in addition to
Privoxy it can be specified here. To ensure privacy data traffic may be i.e. sent through
the Tor network. For details see the Tor Documentation (Page 189). An entry for using
Tor could look like this:
PRIVOXY_x_SOCKS_PROXY='127.0.0.1:9050'
This setting is optional.
PRIVOXY_x_TOGGLE This option activates toggling the proxy over the web interface. If
Privoxy is switched off it will act as a simple forwarding proxy and won’t change page
content in any way. Please note that this setting affects ALL proxy users (if one user
disables privoxy it acts as a forwarding proxy for all users).
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