Setup WP proxy to use SSH tunnel

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Hello,

our webserver completely behind a firewall. I cannot directly connect from it to any other server outside of the firewall. However, I can create a dynamic SSH tunnel. It should be possible to use this tunnel to install WP plugins or to use the wp-to-twitter plugin. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to setup the proxy config in the wp-config.php. My current setting is

define('WP_PROXY_HOST', '');
define('WP_PROXY_PORT', '8080');
define('WP_PROXY_USERNAME', '');
define('WP_PROXY_PASSWORD', '');
define('WP_PROXY_BYPASS_HOSTS', 'localhost');
define('WP_USEPROXY','TRUE');

but it is not working. The tunnel itself is prepared separately by
ssh -D 8080 my-tunnel-server
using ssh-keys (thus, no password necessary).

If I would use curl, th should then be
curl -x socks5://localhost:8080 $destination_URL

Can anyone tell me how to setup the wp-config.php correctly? Thank you very much in advance!

Pucicu

• This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by pucicu.
• This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski.