In this article, we will show you how to enable proxy settings for yum command on CentOS 7. Yum is a package management tool that works with RPM packages. It is available on RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and older versions of Fedora, and it is the most convenient way to handle OS packages and their dependencies on these operating systems.
When a server can only be accessed through proxy servers, you need to configure yum to use a proxy server so you can install a RPM package, or update the currently installed yum packages.
To configure a proxy server so the system user can access and use yum commands is a fairly easy and straight-to-the-point task, and it shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to configure it. Let’s get started.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Tinyproxy on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. Tinyproxy is a small and fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server and it is very easy to install and use. It is an ideal solution when a HTTP/HTTPS proxy is required, but but resources for a larger proxy such as Squid are unavailable. There are a number of reasons why a HTTP/HTTPS proxy is useful, but the main one is to access the Internet using a different IP address. Some of the key features of Tinyproxy include: Anonymous mode, Access control, Small footprint, Proxy chaining, Remote monitoring, HTTPS support and Small footprint.
Squid is a web proxy and cache server which primarily provides proxy and cache services for the HTTP protocol. In this tutorial we are going to show you how to install and configure Squid proxy server on a 
There are a more reasons for using proxy, but we are going to focus on web content filtering and/or anonymous surfing. A proxy –