Title: Proxy Server?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Proxy Server?

 *  [ruairi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruairi/)
 * (@ruairi)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proxy-server/)
 * I’m using wordpress in a corporate environment, and of course I’m behind a firewall.
   This causes the dashboard to load slowly and eventually not load completely. 
   Is it possible to define a proxy server that WP should use whenever it gets the
   feeds from the WP devblog?
 * Thanks,
    Ruairi

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 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proxy-server/#post-147495)
 * You being behind a firewall should have no effect on your website on a seperate
   server. WP doesn’t need any proxy information unless it’s hosted on a server 
   behind a proxy.
 * Regards
 *  [jstevewhite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jstevewhite/)
 * (@jstevewhite)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proxy-server/#post-147936)
 * I think the point Ruairi was trying to make is that his corporate proxy does 
   not allow direct connection to the internet, only connection through a proxy.
 * Regardless, I had the same problem. A grep oxy * in ./wordpress gave no result,
   but in wp-includes I found that class-snoopy.php contained:
 * `
    var $proxy_host = ""; // proxy host to use var $proxy_port = ""; // proxy 
   port to use
 * After populating them appropriately with the IP and port of my http proxy, dashboard
   loads just fine.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [jstevewhite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jstevewhite/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proxy-server/#post-147936)
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