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I have an application on the internet that requests a proxy to access.

I could buy one and put it there, the format he asks for is the following:

http: // ip: port OR http: // username: password @ ip: port

But I would like to create my own, from the computer of my house.

I am a layman to get to the point of creating mine without seeing a step by step.

Maybe it involves no-ip, and some application installed on my computer. I have no idea how to start.

In short: I have an application that does the management of Instagram (NextPost). It says to use Proxy from the same country that the account was created (in this case, Brazil) .. I would like to use my computer as a proxy for my web application.

Can someone help-me? Thanks.

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    Your question isn’t clear to me. What does your first line mean? Can you post the application name and the exact text where it requests the proxy? What does it need a proxy for?
    – Steve
    Oct 14, 2018 at 16:38
  • @Steve I have an application that does the management of Instagram (NextPost). It says to use Proxy from the same country that the account was created (in this case, Brazil) .. I would like to use my computer as a proxy for my web application.
    – Ale
    Oct 15, 2018 at 12:13
  • I could buy some proxy in Brazil, but I would like to do the same.
    – Ale
    Oct 15, 2018 at 12:14
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    You describe an app demanding a proxy in Brazil. I hope you are in Brazil, otherwise your newly created proxy on your computer will not meet this condition. And, since I'm slightly puzzled by this request for such a proxy from this app, could it be that this is requested because you are not in Brazil? In which case you would be better off with a VPN proxy.
    – reben
    Oct 15, 2018 at 13:37
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    I maxed out on my previous comment with 0 chars to go. Now that I believe I understand more of what you are looking for I'll make an answer to your question. If this is the answer you're looking for then accept the answer.
    – reben
    Oct 15, 2018 at 18:50

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You are not stating what computer you have to run the proxy server on, and there are many proxy servers available. One easy choice would be Squid, which is available for both Linux and Windows. I'm somewhat uncertain as to what level to inform on here but;

Innstallation samples are many on the web, both for Linux flavors and Windows. I do not see the benefit of cutting & pasting any documentation here.

EDIT: I still do not know what OS you will be running on, but if you choose to go with squid, it does not seem to have uPnP for NAT Traversal, so you may want to look up how to add a NAT rule for your home network router.

This to enable incoming connections to your proxy from the internet. It is a common area to fail in.

Usually this is quite simple. Let's assume that your PC is in network 192.168.1.0 (or it could be 10.0.0.0 ..) with address 192.168.1.10, and your squid proxy runs at port 8080. The NAT rule you set up is usually in the form of;

  • WAN (Internet) Port from/to port: 8080/8080

  • LAN (Home Network) Port from/to port: 8080/8080

  • LAN IP: 192168.1.10

Other semantics may be used, depending in the router, like source (for WAN) and destination (for LAN)(for inbound traffic).

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