[Privoxy-users] Having trouble with Privoxy

[Ian Silvester]

Hi there,

Please could you follow the guidance at https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html, then provide an excerpt of /var/log/privoxy.log, such that we can assist you in identifying why it is failing to start correctly.

Cheers,

Ian

On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, at 12:06, A Frustrated Privoxy-user wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am having big trouble trying to run Privoxy.
>
> I'm using MX Linux (based on Debian) and the version of Privoxy I'm
> using is 3.0.28+deb10u1, which is the most up to date on MX's Package
> Installer, as of this posting.
>
> I tried it on Firefox-ESR version 78.14.0esr (64-bit) and
> Palemoon version 29.4.1 (64-bit).
>
> I set the HTTP and HTTPS proxies to 127.0.0.1 and ports to 8118 as
> instructed but the proxy keeps refusing my connections, on both
> browsers, so I have to turn it off to access the internet. 
>
> I uninstalled my firewall (gufw) and Tor but I'm still having the same
> problem. I even checked for Listening ports but I haven't found either
> the browser or Privoxy running.
>
> Last of all, I tried to start up Privoxy manually but I got this error.
> The following output was:
> [FAIL] Starting filtering proxy server: privoxy failed!
>
> I have used Privoxy in MX Linux before and it worked fine but
> now I'm having problems all of a sudden.
>
> Please reply and help as soon as possible.
>
> Thank you.
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