How to Setup your own Proxy Server for Free

by vamsi pandranki

Do a simple Google search like “proxy servers” and you’ll find dozens of PHP proxy scripts on the Internet that will help you create proxy servers in minutes for free. The only limitation with PHP based proxies is that you require a web server to host the proxy scripts and second, you also need a domain name to act as an address for your proxy site.
If you don’t own a domain or server space, you can still create a personal proxy server for free and that too without requiring any technical knowledge.

Create a Free Proxy Server with Google App Engine

Here’s one such proxy site that you can build for your friends in China or even for your personal use (say for accessing blocked sites from office). This is created using Google App Engine and, contrary to what you may think, the setup is quite simple.

Step 1: Go to appengine.google.com and sign-in using your Google Account.

Step 2: Click the “Create an Application” button. Since this is your first time, Google will send a verification code via SMS to your mobile phone number. Type the code and you’re all set to create apps with Google App Engine.

Step 3: Choose a sub-domain* that will host your proxy server. Make sure the domain is available, agree to the Google Terms and click save. The sub-domain is also your App ID that will uniquely identify your proxy application.

For this example, we’ll use labnol-proxy-server as the App ID though you are free to choose any other unique name.

Step 4: OK, now that we have reserved the ID, it’s time to create and upload the proxy server application to Google App Engine. Go to python.org, download the 2.6.4 MSI Installer and install Python.

Step 5: Once Python is installed, go to code.google.com, download the Google App Engine SDK for Python and install it.

Step 6: Download this zip file and extract it to some folder on your desktop. The zip file, for the curious, contains a couple of text files (written in HTML and Python) that you can read with notepad.

Step 7: Start the Google App Engine Launcher program from the desktop and set the right values under Edit – > Preferences (see screenshot above).

Step 8. Click File – > Add Existing Application under the Google App Launcher program and browse to the directory that you created in Step 6. Click the Edit button and replace “YOUR_APP_ID” with the ID (sub-domain) that you reserved in Step 3.

Step 9: Click Deploy and your online proxy server is now ready for use.

Visual Tour – Setting up a Free Proxy with Google

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can edit the main.html file to change the appearance of your proxy server and you can even add Analytics and AdSense code to your proxy server in case it gets popular on the web.

The application is currently open to all users but you can add a layer of authentication so that only users who are logged-in into their Google Accounts can use your web proxy server.

If you have made any changes to your HTML files, you can upload the latest version to Google App Engine either by clicking the “Deploy” button again or use the following command – appcfg.py update <app-directory>

Credits: The proxy server uses code from Mirrorr, an open-source web caching project by Brett Slatkin. Thanks Pratham for your help!

Update: To answer some of your questions:

• This proxy works with Flash videos (like YouTube and ABC News) though not with Hulu.
• If you are getting the “quota exceed” error, try this mirrorsite. Update: This has been removed since the App Engine TOS does not allow you to split your app across multiple accounts to make use of the free quotas. So technically, the mirror of the proxy is in violation of the TOS.
• As some of you have suggestions, domain with the word “proxy” or “proxies” are banned at workplaces so you may include them in your proxy address.
• Though there exist proxy servers for accessing secure sites, this is a basic proxy server that won’t work with sites that require logins (eg, Gmail or Hotmail).

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is Google App Engine really a better choice ?

  



Is  Google App Engine really a better choice ?
BY VAMSI PANDRANKI


                         Hi, friends who are very intended to work with Google app engine ,i want to share my feeling to you on this.that is why you need to chose this and what are the other sides of Google app engine.i recently created a web application GAE ,it really simple to build,i have made it to show the latest news upadates and most popular video
on youtube by rss feed ,tht is  "toptrends.asia".
                       
                          first i wanna start with better things in Google app engine,very first you need know about" what is Google app engine ?". 

what is Google app engine ? :
                       if you want build a web application .you need a place a put it ,that is exactly what Google have done with Google app engine .so you don't need to bother about infrastructure , because "Google App Engine lets you run web applications on Google's infrastructure",it is cloud solution

runtime environments:                     
                        after getting infrastructure you need better runtime .google app engine provides a three runtime environments, you can easily work on that ,you have better thing if you go with python and java,

database on GAE:        
                       and you need a database for your application ,they providing a google
styled database for you ,that is datastore .it is non relational database (google query language).so you can store your application on big tables 
                       
integrating an app with Google Accounts  :              
                       it integrates your app with your account for authentication ,Using Google Accounts lets the user start using your application faster, because the user may not need to create a new account. It also saves you the effort of implementing a user account system just for your application

it is better if you go with google services:
                     google provides  Supercharged APIs: Supercharge your app with services such as Task Queue, XMPP, and Cloud SQL, all powered by the same infrastructure that powers the Google services you use every day. 


it is demo for google app engine ,
you can contact me at info@toptrends.asia ,

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