I have a domain and a webhost now. I want to put a non-caching HTTP proxy to work with my domain, so it looks like I'm surfing from say myproxy.phylomortis.com.

I'm on a unix host, so I can telnet into the host if I need to set it up. How would I go about doing this?

can you really do this?:eek:

Gatta, do you have access to myproxy.phylomortis.com?
If you do, it can be done (depending on other factors which we can discuss).
If not, you are out of luck.

Yes I can create myproxy.phylomortis.com as a subdomain. What I want to do is put proxy software on my account, and have that address reference the proxy server.

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Yes it's possible.
And pretty simple to do using something like squid.
Although I don't think *any* shared hosting provider is going to let you do this on their servers.
If you have a dedicated or colocated machine, then by all means, go right ahead.
If not, I would advise you contact your hosting companies support.

Regards,
Vince.

Gatta, I will assume you have your own machine. If you are on a shared account, I second vince's advice to talk to your customer support people before trying such things.

The easiest way to make a proxy is using mod_proxy
on apache. You can proxy any server and any port.
For example, we use mod_proxy to serve zope (port 8080) pages to appear as they were served by apache (port 80). Take a look at this document, it has details on how to make a proxy from your apache
http://www.apache.org/DELETE_ME/mod/mod_rewrite.html