4.5. Configuring Satellite Server with an HTTP Proxy

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Infrastructure > HTTP Proxies.
2. Click New HTTP Proxy.
3. In the Name field, enter the name for the HTTP proxy.
4. In the Url field, enter the URL of the HTTP proxy in the following format: https://proxy.example.com:8080.
5. Optional: If authentication is required, in the Username field, enter the username to authenticate with.
6. Optional: If authentication is required, in the Password field, enter the password to authenticate with.
7. To test connection to the proxy, click the Test Connection button.
8. Click Submit.
9. Navigate to Administer > Settings, and click the Content tab.
10. Set the Default HTTP Proxy setting to the created HTTP proxy.

For CLI Users

1. Verify that the http_proxy, https_proxy, and no_proxy variables are not set.

   # unset http_proxy
   # unset https_proxy
   # unset no_proxy

2. Add an HTTP proxy entry to Satellite:

   # hammer http-proxy create --name=myproxy \
   --url http://myproxy.example.com:8080  \
   --username=proxy_username \
   --password=proxy_password

3. Configure Satellite to use this HTTP proxy by default:

   # hammer settings set --name=content_default_http_proxy --value=myproxy