proxy is only working with GUI but not when I set through terminal with ~/.bashrc

Camilo

1/28/23, 8:03 PM

I have read a lot of guides about setting a proxy for ubuntu. I can do it with the GUI in the network settings and it automatically starts using the proxy I specified and when I open firefox or chrome to check my ip it shows the proxy ip.

But I'm not able to get it working with terminal by editing the ~/.bashrc file. I do it like this:

sudo nano ~/.bashrc

then add this at the end of the file

export HTTP_PROXY="my_proxy:my_port"
export HTTPS_PROXY="my_proxy:my_port"
export FTP_PROXY="my_proxy:my_port"

then I save the changes and run the command

source ~/.bashrc

But when I open the web browser my IP did not change, I also tried rebooting the system but the ip remains the same.

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glenn jackman

1/28/23, 8:21 PM

Your .bashrc only applies to your bash shells (and programs spawned from it), not to your GUI login session as a whole. Try adding the values to `/etc/security/pam_env.conf`

Camilo

1/28/23, 10:13 PM

I got the same result

Camilo

1/28/23, 10:23 PM

@glennjackman Do you where are the changes made manually with GUI stored?

raj

1/28/23, 11:12 PM

The proxy settings in GUI and in the terminal are independent and complementary to each other. GUI programs use the settings you define in GUI; command-line tools like `wget` use the environment variables you define in the terminal. To use proxy both in GUI and on command line, you have to define both.

glenn jackman

1/29/23, 12:10 AM

Have a look at https://askubuntu.com/q/78856/10127

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: proxy is only working with GUI but not when I set through terminal with ~/.bashrc

TH: พร็อกซีใช้งานได้เฉพาะกับ GUI แต่ไม่เมื่อฉันตั้งค่าผ่านเทอร์มินัลด้วย ~/.bashrc

RO: proxy-ul funcționează doar cu GUI, dar nu și atunci când am setat prin terminal cu ~/.bashrc

RU: прокси работает только с графическим интерфейсом, но не когда я устанавливаю через терминал с ~/.bashrc

VI: proxy chỉ hoạt động với GUI nhưng không hoạt động khi tôi đặt qua thiết bị đầu cuối với ~/.bashrc

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