SETUP-PROXY(8)

📦 version 3.22.0, in alpine 3.24

💅 SETUP-PROXY 💅

ok so bestie, welcome to setup-proxy(8), straight out of the System Manager's Manual — yes it's a section 8 page, yes it's iconic, and yes it's about to make your whole system's proxy situation make sense. grab a snack 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

setup-proxy — configure HTTP/FTP proxy settings. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

setup-proxy [-hq] [PROXYURL]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — setup-proxy configures the system-wide HTTP, HTTPS and FTP proxy. not just for one app, not just for your shell, for the whole system, main character energy fr 👑

it does two things:

  • writes the proxy environment to /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh
  • installs wget, because the busybox wget does not support HTTP proxies (lowkey tragic, i know 😭)

in interactive mode, the proxy URL has to be an HTTP or HTTPS URL (like http://proxy:8080) or none. the value none removes the proxy configuration — poof, gone, no proxy era 💅

if PROXYURL is given, it's used directly, no questions asked. if it's omitted, the current proxy setting becomes the default and the user gets prompted. so you're never just guessing 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h — display usage information and exit. short, sweet, helpful 🌈
  • -q — quiet mode. suppresses the reminder to source the profile after setup. she's not gonna nag you, she's gonna let you live 💀

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh — shell script exporting http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy and no_proxy environment variables. all four of them, all slaying in one file 💖

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

  • 0 — success. we ate and left no crumbs 🔥
  • non-zero — an error occurred. it's giving chaos, check your input 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

wget(1), setup-alpine(8) — go read those too, bestie, iykyk 🧚

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> and others — absolute legends, no cap 🫡

ngl, the quiet flag -q only hides the "source your profile" reminder. it's not a magic silence-everything button, so don't come for her 💀

that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by Alpine Linux, dated 2026-06-09, and written with so much love. now go configure that proxy and slay ✨🦋💅

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