Configure to Enable wget Download Through Proxy Server on Linux Fedora.

   This step by step article show the how to configure wget to enable download through proxy server on Linux Fedora operating system.  When your Linux Fedora system using Proxy server or your network environment require you to use proxy server to go to internet, you may need to configure wget to enable wget to download through that proxy server.  To enable wget download through proxy server for all user on your Fedora system, you need to edit the /etc/wgetrc configuration file....

Enable wget download through proxy.

   The /etc/wgetrc is the wget configuration file for all user that use the system (global wget configuration file). You may need root user privileges to edit this wget configuration file... To change single user configuration or to enable download using wget for single user on your system, make change to the $HOME/.wgetrc configuration file...  

1.  Log in on Linux Fedora 11 system.

2.  Open Fedora 11  X Terminal if you using the Graphical Linux desktop.

3.  To make sure that you can download using wget through proxy server, you need root user privileges to edit wget configuration file... use the su - command as example below to change to root user.

[fedora11@fedora11 root]$ su -
Password:            <-- Key in root user password here and hit Enter key.
[root@fedora11 ~]#

4. Open the wget configuration file wgetrc to locate on /etc directory.  The example below show that we use the gedit editor to edit the wget configuration file wgetrc. 

4.  The figure below show the wgetrc configuration file open with gedit editor.  Go through the configuration file until you find the part that say set default proxy for wget as show on the example below.

# You can set the default proxies for Wget to use for http and ftp.

# They will override the value in the environment.

#http_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/

#ftp_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/

# If you do not want to use proxy at all, set this to off.

#use_proxy = on

5.  Edit the part on wgetrc configuration file as show on example above.  Remove the comment tag (#) and then put the proxy server address and proxy server port number... and make sure that you remove comment tag and set use proxy to on (use_proxy=on)... as show on example below.

# You can set the default proxies for Wget to use for http and ftp.

# They will override the value in the environment.

http_proxy = http://172.16.160.119:8080/      <-- Remove comment tag (#) and put Proxy server address and Proxy port number

ftp_proxy = http://172.16.160.119:8080/      <-- Remove comment tag (#) and put Proxy server address and Proxy port number

# If you do not want to use proxy at all, set this to off.

use_proxy = on      <-- Remove comment tag (#) and make sure status is on

6.  Test using wget to download something from internet...

[root@fedora11 ~]# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.510-1.noarch.rpm

--2010-03-11 04:27:30--  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.510-1.noarch.rpm

Connecting to 172.16.160.119:8080... connected.

Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily

Location: http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.510/webmin-1.510-1.noarch.rpm [following]

--2010-03-11 04:27:32--  http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.510/webmin-1.510-1.noarch.rpm

Connecting to 172.16.160.119:8080... connected.

Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 15995394 (15M) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `webmin-1.510-1.noarch.rpm'

 1% [                                                                        ] 205,536     10.7K/s  eta 25m 2s

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