Install privoxy as a service

Specifies a hostname for example www. On these systems, doing a hostname lookup before the chroot reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree. The hostname need not exist, but if it doesn't, an error message which can be ignored will be output. If no configfile is included on the command line, Privoxy will look for a file named "config" in the current directory except on Win32 where it will look for "config.

Specify full path to avoid confusion. If no config file is found, Privoxy will fail to start. On MS Windows only there are two additional command-line options to allow Privoxy to install and run as a service. See the Window Installation section for details. Privoxy 3. Figure 2. Figure 3. Debian We use a script. Joined Jan 21, Messages 6. Enclosed below is the section from the manual about installing Privoxy for Windows and I don't understand the following: 1 The 2 arguments shown at the beginning of the section are talking about changes that already have been made to Windows and not something I should be entering on a command line somewhere?

Not being a systems person this is not obvious to me. Am I looking for user and start up files or should I be looking for some Privoxy file? Any help would be appreciated. Windows Just double-click the installer, which will guide you through the installation process. You will find the configuration files in the same directory as you installed Privoxy in. Version 3. On Windows only, the Privoxy program has two new command line arguments to install and uninstall Privoxy as a service.

You can start the Windows services console with the following command: services. If you do not take the manual step of modifying Privoxy's service settings, it will not start.

Note too that you will need to give Privoxy a user account that actually exists, or it will not be permitted to write to its log and configuration files. Triple6 Rob. Joined Dec 26, Messages 52, Active 4 years, 7 months ago.

Viewed 3k times. I opened an administrator command prompt in that location, but when I run --install , I get the following error: '--install' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Can someone provide step-by-step instructions? Improve this question.

Can you provide the full command your attempting to use — Ramhound. You need to provide the name of the program not just the arguments. DavidPostill: Privoxy service is now installed, but I can't start the service: i. Do what it says and look in the system event log for the error. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Open an administrator command prompt.

Now run privoxy --install. Install the Cygwin utilities needed to build Privoxy. Get the source code. Get the latest 8. Privoxy uses the GNU Autotools for building software, so the process is:. The usual configure options for building a native Windows application under cygwin are. For example:. See the Developer's Manual for building a Windows release package. If you wish to receive an email notification whenever we release updates of Privoxy or the actions file, subscribe to our announce mailing list , privoxy-announce lists.

In order not to lose your personal changes and adjustments when updating to the latest default. See the Chapter on actions files for details. Privoxy 3. Installation Privoxy is available both in convenient pre-compiled packages for a wide range of operating systems, and as raw source code.

Binary Packages How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system: 2. Windows Just double-click the installer, which will guide you through the installation process. Installation from ready-built package The downloaded file will either be a. Installation from source To build and install the Privoxy source code on OS X you will need to obtain the macsetup module from the Privoxy Sourceforge CVS repository refer to Sourceforge help for details of how to set up a CVS client to have read-only access to the repository.

To uninstall, run the macsetup module's uninstall.