Month: December 2009

Recently my boss assigned me to work on SQUID reverse proxy. I thought it’s an easy task and started working on it. But when days started going on, I realised that it’s not going to happen in a night. And at last I found the solution some two days back. This post is about How to implement SQUID as a reverse proxy? If you want to know more about for what purpose we require reverse proxy and which reverse proxy is good please refer my other post here. Before Installing and configuring SQUID as reverse proxy I just want to add the below point(s). Don’t install SQUID from package installations such as rpm in Redhat and apt-get/deb in Debain. Download the source package from squid official site, then compile it and install it according to your needs. In order to SQUID run perfectly please change the ownership of the installation folder to squid. By default SQUID will not create cache directory in the installation directory, so we have to create it manually with ownership as squid user and we have to execute squid –z in order to SQUID work properly which will create. Don’t worry about all these points. I will explain these points once we start configuring SQUID. Prerequired packages: 1)gcc compiler2)openSSL So let’s start how to implement SQUID on RHEL5/CENTOS5 Step1 : Remove any squid package if...