Is it possible someone can point me in the right direction? I have just installed Redhat9 which has squid installed as a componant. It seems to be installed in /etc/squid (certainly this is where the squid.conf file is located).
Different Linux distributions will likely install Squid to a different location. Don't worry about where it is installed to, just worry about making it work!
The location of squid.conf bears no relation to the location of the Squid binary/program itself.
Firstly I have configured the ports for incomming requests from my workstations
and I am happy with that and because the Local education authority run a
filtering proxy service i am aware i need to set a parent proxy and the port to
connect to it. this is where my problem lies, If i set it as a parent proxy and
set the port for Squid to connect to it all well and good, but what happens with
the returned traffic from the parent I assume it will come back on the same port
I connect to the parent on, however, I dont have a clue as to where in the
squid.conf this should be configured.
You'll not likely need to alter much in the squid.conf file since most of the default settings will allow Squid to run without alteration.
So long as you define 'cache_peer' correctly to point to your LEA's upstream proxy then Squid will work fine. You don't need to and possibly can't decalre the other ports you mention. I will say it;s worth telling your LEA about your cache, as they will instantly see your cache as a single client hogging all the requests and bandwidth and possibly disable it's access. They did that to me where I work until I told them about the cache!
I would be much obliged if someone could help me I have already made one
fruitless trip to the friendly computer supermarket who fail to stock any books
on squid. So I will have to try and dig out my old redhat bible.
You'll possibly only need to worry about the following lines in squid.conf:
cache_peer visible_hostname cache_dir size (the default 100Mbytes likely is nowhere near big enough)
Can't think of any other lines offhand. In Red Hat 9 you can use the GUI Services applet to set Squid to start automatically on boot-up.
hth
Regards,
Chris
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