HowTo : Install Squid on Linux

[BlaZe]

Install Squid on Linux

What is Squid ?
Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (but not quite - we're getting there!) HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

Where is Squid used ?
A good question! Many of you are using Squid without even knowing it! Some companies have embedded Squid in their home or office firewall devices, others use Squid in large-scale web proxy installations to speed up broadband and dialup internet access. Squid is being increasingly used in content delivery architectures to deliver static and streaming video/audio to internet users worldwide.

Now lets start the installation

Login as root in your SSH and execute

cd /usr/local/src
wget  http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/squid-3.1.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf squid-3.1.1.tar.gz
cd squid-3.1.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/squid --disable-ident-lookups
make all
make install

Now lets configure Squid

Add the user 'squid', create the cache directory and then set permissions.

useradd -d /usr/local/squid/cache/ -r -s /dev/null squid >/dev/null  2>&1
mkdir /usr/local/squid/cache
chown -R squid:squid /usr/local/squid/cache
chown -R squid:squid /usr/local/squid
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/squid/cache

Generate the cache files,

sudo -u squid /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z

Change the cache effective user and group to squid.

perl -pi -e 's/# cache_effective_user  nobody/cache_effective_user squid\ncache_effective_group squid/g'  /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf

Done !

Now start Squid

/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid

Tutorial by BlaZe

BlaZe Reviewed by BlaZe on 25th Apr 2010. HowTo : Install Squid on Linux Install Squid on Linux What is Squid ? Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (but not quite - we're getting there!) HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications. Where is Squid used ? A good question! Many of you are using Squid without even knowing it! Some companies have embedded Squid in their home or office firewall devices, others use Squid in Rating: 5

[kiladila]

Hm....this will be transparent proxy. Use forwarded_for off and request_header_access options.