Coastal Carolina University Libraries presently uses OpenAthens (OA) as our identity and access management service for electronic resources. When OA fails for individual resources or catastrophically, it's critical to have a backup service because OA support often takes >24H to respond. This session will discuss how to develop a simple forward proxy service using both Apache's httpd web server and the PHP scripting language such that the proxy service aligns with Alma's "Resolver Proxy" configurations.