Thursday, November 27, 2008

Squid Installation in Linux

1. Download the source from squid-cache.org.

2. Untar the source file.

3. Go to squid source directory.

4.In terminal execute the command " ./configure ".

5. After completing the configuration just execute " make & make install ".

6. Now squid will be installed in " /usr/local/squid ".

7. Go to squid directory and open configuration file using vi editor like " vi etc/squid.conf " and
put these line " visible_hostname localhost ".

8. Execute the command " ./sbin/squid -z".

9. Now swap directories has created.

10. Then start the squid " ./sbin/squid -D ".

*. Normally squid runs on 3128 port.

More visit: http://squid.visolve.com/

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