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Unblock Facebook in your country

Overview Update - Jan 5, 2016 - If you're already running a proxy, please update your NGINX config or PHP script This guide will explain how to set up your own Facebook proxy site. A proxy site will help users in countries where Facebook has been blocked. For most of the article we'll be using a web server called Nginx . NGINX is our recommended method since it is fast, requires few resources, and has many advanced reverse proxy features. It has been tested on Red Hat based and Debian based distributions but it works on pretty much all UNIX-based systems. Your server should not have anything else running on port 80 though, and of course it needs sufficient bandwidth. Don't use a precompiled binary from your distributions repos (e.g. apt-get install package) since it will not have the required modules. There are also two PHP scripts that proxy facebook that have been designed specifically for this and can be used on web hosting packages (i.e. do