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SQUID Frequently Asked Questions
Duane Wessels,
wessels@nlanr.net
Frequently Asked Questions (with answers!) about the Squid Internet Object Cache software.
1.
About Squid, this FAQ, and other Squid information resources
1.1 What is Squid?
1.2 What is Internet object caching?
1.3 Why is it called Squid?
1.4 What is the latest version of Squid?
1.5 Who is responsible for Squid?
1.6 Where can I get Squid?
1.7 What Squid mailing lists are available?
1.8 What Squid web pages are available?
1.9 Does Squid support SSL?
1.10 What's the legal status of Squid?
1.11 Squid FAQ contributors
1.12 About This Doument
2.
Installation
2.1 Which file do I download to get Squid?
2.2 How do I install Squid?
2.3 What Operating Systems does Squid support?
2.4 What does the
squid.conf
file do?
2.5 Do you have a
squid.conf
example?
2.6 How do I start Squid?
2.7 How do I start Squid automatically when the system boots?
2.8 How do I tell if Squid is running?
2.9 How do I apply a patch or a diff?
3.
Compiling
3.1 src/Makefile options
3.2 undefined reference to __inet_ntoa
3.3 Using GNU malloc
3.4 How can I get true DNS TTL info into Squid's IP cache?
3.5 My platform is BSD/OS or BSDI and I can't compile Squid
3.6 Problems compiling
libmiscutil.a
on Solaris
4.
Configuration issues
4.1 How do I join a cache hierarchy?
4.2 How do I join NLANR's cache hierarchy?
4.3 Why should I want to join NLANR's cache hierarchy?
4.4 How do I register my cache with NLANR's registration service?
4.5 How do I find other caches close to me and arrange parent/child/sibling relationships with them?
4.6 My cache registration is not appearing in the Tracker database.
4.7 What is the httpd-accelerator mode?
4.8 How do I configure Squid to work behind a firewall?
4.9 I have
dnsserver
processes that aren't being used, should I lower the number in
squid.conf
?
4.10 Does Squid support Socks?
4.11 How does Squid decide when to refresh a cached object?
4.12 How can I easily change the default HTTP port?
4.13 Is it possible to control how big each cache_dir is?
4.14 Squid and
http-gw
from the TIS toolkit.
4.15 What is ``HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR''? Why does squid provide it to WWW servers, and how can I stop it?
4.16 Can I use the redirector to return HTTP redirect messages?
5.
Communication between browsers and Squid
5.1 Netscape manual configuration
5.2 Netscape automatic configuration
5.3 Lynx and Mosaic configuration
5.4 Redundant Auto-Proxy-Configuration
5.5 Microsoft Internet Explorer configuration
5.6 Netmanage Internet Chameleon WebSurfer configuration
5.7 Opera 2.12 proxy configuration
5.8 How can I make my users' browsers use my cache without configuring the browsers for proxying?
6.
Squid Log Files
6.1
access.log
6.2
hierarchy.log
6.3
store.log
6.4 Field Definitions
6.5 Cache Result Codes
6.6 Peer Status Coces
6.7 HTTP status codes
6.8
cache/log
6.9 Which log files can I delete safely?
6.10 Why do I get ERR_NO_CLIENTS_BIG_OBJ messages so often?
6.11 What does ERR_LIFETIME_EXP mean?
6.12 Retrieving ``lost'' files from the cache
7.
Operational issues
7.1 How do I see system level Squid statistics?
7.2 How can I find the biggest objects in my cache?
7.3 I want to restart Squid with a clean cache
7.4 How can I proxy/cache Real Audio?
7.5 How can I purge an object from my cache?
7.6 Using ICMP to Measure the Network
7.7 Where so few requests logged as TCP_IMS_MISS?
8.
The Cache Manager
8.1 What is the cache manager?
8.2 How do you set it up?
8.3 Cache manager configuration for CERN httpd 3.0
8.4 Cache manager configuration for Apache
8.5 Cache manager ACLs in
squid.conf
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