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Apache mod_proxy configuration for The Pirate Bay

July 13, 2012 /

I found several apache mod_proxy configs for setting up a proxy for The Pirate Bay, but none worked fully.

You need to enable/install:

  • mod_proxy
  • mod_rewrite
  • mod_headers
  • mod_proxy_http

<Virtualhost *:80>
        ServerName tpb.yourdomain.com
 
        # Plausible deniability, and respecting your fellow pirate's privacy.
        Loglevel emerg
        CustomLog /dev/null combined
        ErrorLog /dev/null
 
        <Proxy *>
          Order deny,allow
          Allow from all
        </Proxy>
 
        # Just to fix a few links...
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteRule \/static\.thepiratebay\.se\/(.*)$ /static/$1 [R=302,L]
 
        ProxyRequests off
 
        # Cookies are imporant to be able to disable the annoying double-row mode.
        # The . before the domain is required, but I don't know why :)
        ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain .thepiratebay.se tpb.yourdomain.com
 
        ProxyPass / http://thepiratebay.se/
        ProxyPass /static/ http://static.thepiratebay.se/
        ProxyPass /torrents/ http://torrents.thepiratebay.se/
        ProxyHTMLURLMap http://thepiratebay.se /
        ProxyHTMLURLMap http://([a-z]*).thepiratebay.se /$1 R
 
        ProxyHTMLEnable On
 
        <Location /static/>
          ProxyPassReverse /
          SetOutputFilter proxy-html
          ProxyHTMLURLMap / /static/
          RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding
        </Location>
 
        <Location /torrents/>
          ProxyPassReverse /
          SetOutputFilter proxy-html
          ProxyHTMLURLMap / /torrents/
          RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding
        </Location>
 
</Virtualhost>

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7 Comments

  1. Rowan Rodrik

    Did you notice that Ziggo’s PB “blockage” is done on the DNS level? Here’s an excerpt from my /etc/hosts which undoes BREIN’s pathetic attempt at censorship:

    $ grep pirate /etc/hosts
178.73.210.219 thepiratebay.se
178.73.210.219 www.thepiratebay.se
178.73.210.219 thepiratebay.org
178.73.210.219 www.thepiratebay.org

    Here it is explained for the DNS-illiterates who do not know what a hosts file is and for whom that file lives at the unholy c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts instead of /etc/hosts.

  2. halfgaar (Post author)

    I thought the court order required them to also block a list of IP’s. I wonder why they chose not to do that. Perhaps their infrastructure doesn’t make it easy, or they wanted to give customers an easy way out…

    Anyway, I use KPN, so I need my proxy.

  3. Rowan Rodrik

    KPN does block the IPs?

  4. halfgaar (Post author)

    When I visit thepiratebay.se, they say they block this list of IPs:

    194.71.107.15
    194.71.107.19
    194.71.107.80
    194.71.107.81
    194.71.107.82
    194.71.107.83

    I don’t know what the IP is you posted, but maybe it’s a proxy and the hosts file makes it available under the normal name. There is one easy check: can you change column view to single row per torrent? That setting is stored in a cookie and most proxies mess that up.

  5. Rowan Rodrik

    Haha, indeed the cookie doesn’t work, so it must be a proxy then. And there I was thinking that Ziggo were being amateurs (or plain naughty), while I was being an amateur myself. 😉

  6. the rebel

    easly get a working tpb proxy at http://tpbnet.org/ , just click on the Banner.
    If your ISP blocked other torrent sites, you can try : http://unblock.pro/
    Cheers

  7. Rowan Rodrik

    Wiebe and I just spent a good hour on debugging why our ProxyHTMLURLMap didn’t do anything. Well, that was because Apache 2.4 introduced an on/off switch for the feature: ProxyHTMLEnable. Unsurprisingly, the relationship between these two directives wasn’t documented in the mod_proxy_html (neither at the ProxyHTMLURLMap section, nor the ProxyHTMLEnable). Where do we report documentation bugs?

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