CentOS 7 - Proxy Server

Alex Sage

So.....

http_proxy=http://proxy_server_address:port

Doesn't work

http_proxy=http://proxy_server_address:port yum -y update

Works

scottalanmiller

I'm guessing you were not putting it into your profile or rc script to add it to your shell and were spawning a new shell without the proxy setting.

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller I need to export it and reboot? Confused

scottalanmiller

@anonymous said:

@scottalanmiller I need to export it and reboot? Confused

No, you have to add it to one of the files mentioned in order for it to apply after a reboot.

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller but I never rebooted.....

scottalanmiller

@anonymous said:

@scottalanmiller but I never rebooted.....

I didn't say that you did, I said that you spawned a new shell.

Alex Sage

To enable all yum operations to use a proxy server, specify the proxy server details in /etc/yum.conf. The proxy setting must specify the proxy server as a complete URL, including the TCP port number. If your proxy server requires a username and password, specify these by adding proxy_username and proxy_password settings.

The settings below enable yum to use the proxy server mycache.mydomain.com, connecting to port 3128, with the username yum-user and the password qwerty.

# The proxy server - proxy server:port number
proxy=http://mycache.mydomain.com:3128
# The account details for yum connections
proxy_username=yum-user
proxy_password=qwerty