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I'm trying to create a simple SSH tunnel using OpenSSH.

I have a VPS server listening on port 4444 for SSH.

From my local Ubuntu machine, I wish to create the SSH tunnel to http://edition.cnn.com/.

I use the following command:

ssh -L 5050:edition.cnn.com:80 x.x.x.x -p 4444

where x.x.x.x is my VPS IP.

I then press Enter, and wait a couple of seconds.

Instead of the tunnel being created, I'm logged in via SSH to my VPS.

What is wrong with my command syntax? Everywhere I look I find that I invoke it correctly.

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  • By default ssh creates and connects to a remote shell or other specified command in addition to any tunnels enabled with -L/D/R and -X/Y. To not run the remote shell/command use -N. See the man page. Commented Mar 26, 2017 at 17:33

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Your command has setup tunnel just fine. Try connecting to localhost:5050 and that should take you to remote host (this may not work for vhosts and you need local hosts entry). If you are looking to setup a generic HTTP proxy via your VPS server, take a look at this question and use SOCKS proxy

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