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Specify a proxy server

Specify a proxy server

If Splunk Web is located behind a proxy server, you might have problems with Splunk Web links that attempt to access the Splunk website. For example, some Manager pages link directly to the download site for Splunk apps.

To get around this problem, you need to set the http_proxy environment variable. For permanent results, you can specify the setting in the splunk-launch.conf configuration file, located in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/ on *nix systems and %SPLUNK_HOME%\etc\ on Windows.

In splunk-launch.conf, add this attribute/value pair: 

http_proxy = <IP address or host name>:<port number>

For example: 

http_proxy = 10.1.8.11:8787
Retrieved from "http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.2/Admin/Specifyaproxyserver"

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.1 , 4.1.1 , 4.1.2 , 4.1.3 , 4.1.4 , 4.1.5 , 4.1.6 , 4.1.7 , 4.1.8 , 4.2 , 4.2.1 , 4.2.2 , 4.2.3 , 4.2.4 , 4.2.5 , 4.3 , 4.3.1 , 4.3.2 View the Article History for its revisions.


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