By default squid almost works out of the box Installation there are two ways of installing squid. The tar file requires configuration, but the documentation is excellent. the other way is the RPM file. This may not be the most up to date version but it will be close. Try getting the RPM from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/updates/7.3/i386/squid-2.4.STABLE6-6.7.3.i386.html and installing it using the command
rpm -Uvh squidxxxxxxx (where xxxxxxx is the file name) the next thing to do is to look at the squid.conf file. This is usually installed in /etc/squid. In there will be a few files but the one you need is squid.conf. If you open the file in an editor you will see a lot of comments, and a few lines of config. I usually copy the file to a backup, and then strip out all the commented lines (prefixed #) to make things a little clearer. grep -v "#" squid.conf > squid.new mv squid.conf squid.old mv squid.new squid.conf This is pretty well all it needs. There are a few lines that need changing. acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 the above line is the default and allows only the local host to access the squid system. a few lines further down is http_access allow localhost and then http_access deny all what i tend to do is add a line under the first one to read acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 (<----- your subnet will vary) then add http_access allow localhost http_access allow localnet this allows all the machines within the 192.168.0 network access to the squid proxy. Other defaults mean that the proxy will accept connections for the internet on port 3128. Next we need to start/restart squid. Issue the command /etc/init.d/squid restart and you should be up and running. To prove it, go to a browser, and set the http proxy settings to the ip address of the machine running squid (127.0.0.1 if the same machine) and the proxy port to 3128 open a command window and su to root and run the command tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log when you browse, you should see the objects being downloaded in the command window. Remember - this is a very basic install. Once you have it working there all sorts of tweaks and changes you can make. Hope this helps in some small way -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
