Install Shadowsocks On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install shadowsocks

check the installation of shadowsocks:

where sslocal
/usr/local/bin/sslocal
/usr/local/bin/sslocal

where ssserver
/usr/local/bin/ssserver
/usr/local/bin/ssserver

Simple Usage

Touch a config file config.json as follows:

 {                               
      "server": "server ip or server domain",
      "server_port": port only for server,
      "local_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "local_port" : port only for client,
      "password": "password",  
      "method": "rc4-md5",       
      "remarks": "",             
      "auth": false,             
      "timeout": 300             
}                                

Default local address is 127.0.0.1. Dfault local port is 1080. Run as shadowsocks server:

sudo ssserver -c config.json -d start

Run as shadowsocks client:

sudo sslocal -c config.json -d start

Start Shadowsocks Automatically On Ubuntu 16.10 Using Systemd

ref: Start Shadowsocks Automatically On Ubuntu 16.10 Using Systemd

Create a new file called shadowsocks.service in /lib/systemd/system:

[Unit]
Description=Shadowsocks Client Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=nobody
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/sslocal -c /home/wumo/shadowsocks/config.json

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note that /usr/local/bin/sslocal -c /home/wumo/shadowsocks/config.json is the command to be executed after network is on. Change /home/wumo//shadowsocks/config.json to your shadowsocks config file.

Start, restart or stop shadowsocks service:

sudo systemctl start shadowsocks.service
sudo systemctl start shadowsocks
sudo systemctl restart shadowsocks
sudo systemctl stop shadowsocks

check the status of shadowsocks service:

sudo systemctl status shadowsocks
● shadowsocks.service - Shadowsocks Client Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2017-04-02 12:28:06 CST; 1min 41s ago
 Main PID: 22037 (sslocal)
    Tasks: 1
   Memory: 15.5M
      CPU: 161ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/shadowsocks.service
           └─22037 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/sslocal -c /home/wumo/shadowsocks/config.json

Apr 02 12:28:06 wumo-pc systemd[1]: Started Shadowsocks Client Service.
Apr 02 12:28:06 wumo-pc sslocal[22037]: INFO: loading config from /home/wumo/shadowsocks/config.json
Apr 02 12:28:07 wumo-pc sslocal[22037]: 2017-04-02 12:28:07 INFO     loading libcrypto from libcrypto.so.1.0.0
Apr 02 12:28:07 wumo-pc sslocal[22037]: 2017-04-02 12:28:07 INFO     starting local at 127.0.0.1:1080

Enable auto start

sudo systemctl enable shadowsocks.service

Start Shadowsocks Automatically On Ubuntu 14.04 Using Upstart

Go to /etc/init/

sudo nano shadowsocks.conf

write the following content:

description "Shadowsocks Server"
author      "wumo"

# used to be: start on startup

start on started networking
stop on shutdown

# automatically respawn

respawn
respawn limit 99 5

script

    exec /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d start

end script

post-start script

   # optionally put a script here that will notifiy you node has (re)started
   # /root/bin/hoptoad.sh "node.js has started!"

end script

start shadowsocks manually:

sudo start shadowsocks

And when you wanna kill the process sudo stop shadowsocks(seemed not working)

Turn Shadowsock into Http proxy

Install polipo

sudo apt-get install polipo

Edit the config file of polipo /etc/polipo/config

# This file only needs to list configuration variables that deviate
# from the default values.  See /usr/share/doc/polipo/examples/config.sample
# and "polipo -v" for variables you can tweak and further information.

logSyslog = true
logFile = /var/log/polipo/polipo.log

proxyAddress = "0.0.0.0"

socksParentProxy = "127.0.0.1:1080"
socksProxyType = socks5

chunkHighMark = 50331648
objectHighMark = 16384

serverMaxSlots = 64
serverSlots = 16
serverSlots1 = 32

Restart polipo service

sudo systemctl restart polipo

The default port of polipo is 8123. You can export http_proxy to make it gloabl http proxy

export http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8123/"
export https_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8123/"

Execute command by socks proxy

Install proxychains

sudo apt-get install proxychains

Edit proxychains config file /etc/proxychains.conf

...
[ProxyList]
# add proxy here ...
# meanwile
# defaults set to "tor"
socks5  127.0.0.1 1080

Then you can run almost every command through socks proxy by :

proxychains wget ...

Reference

more on shadowsocks/wiki