Install Shadowsocks on Ubuntu
Intro
What is SOCKS5?
What is Shadowsocks?
Related topic: SSH port forwarding(SSH tunnel)
Related topic: GFW
Before You Begin
You need:
- a linux vps
- a user with sudo privileges
- a working firewall(UFW, iptables, FirewallD) for safety
Install the Shadowsocks Server (the new & easy way)
Install using apt
Install from repository Shadowsocks-libev is available in the official repository for following distributions:
Debian 8 or higher, including oldstable (jessie), stable (stretch), testing (buster) and unstable (sid) Ubuntu 16.10 or higher
sudo apt update
sudo apt install shadowsocks-libev
Setup
configure and change the params of the default ss config file
sudo vim /etc/shadowsocks/shadowsocks.json
enable and restart service
sudo systemctl enable shadowsocks-libev
sudo systemctl restart shadowsocks-libev
check out the firewall and make sure the port is open, and you are good to go!
Install the Shadowsocks Server (the old way, just kept as reference)
Install the manual way
- Update system, install dependencies
Ubuntu 16.06 or above
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -yuf sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends gettext build-essential autoconf libtool libpcre3-dev \ asciidoc xmlto libev-dev libudns-dev automake libmbedtls-dev \ libsodium-dev git python-m2crypto libc-ares-dev - Download Shadowsocks
git clone https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev.git cd shadowsocks-libev git submodule update --init --recursive - Install Shadowsocks-libev
./autogen.sh ./configure make && sudo make install
Configure the Shadowsocks Server
- Create user and dir
sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --group shadowsocks sudo mkdir -m 755 /etc/shadowsocks - Create Shadowsocks config file
File: /etc/shadowsocks/shadowsocks.json
{ "server":"0.0.0.0", "server_port":8388, "password":"yourpassword", "timeout":300, "method":"aes-256-gcm", "fast_open": true }
Create a Shadowsocks Systemd Service
File: /etc/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
[Unit]
Description=Shadowsocks proxy server
[Service]
User=root
Group=root
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ss-server -c /etc/shadowsocks/shadowsocks.json -a shadowsocks -v start
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/ss-server -c /etc/shadowsocks/shadowsocks.json -a shadowsocks -v stop
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enable and Start shadowsocks.service:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable shadowsocks
sudo systemctl start shadowsocks
Open Firewall Port to Shadowsocks Client
UFW
sudo ufw allow proto tcp to 0.0.0.0/0 port 8388 comment "Shadowsocks server listen port"