Squid is an open-source proxy server that can act as a caching server or a forwarding proxy. It is widely used in corporate and educational networks to improve web performance and provide content filtering.
In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install Squid on the Manjaro distribution of Linux.
Before we start, we need to ensure that our system has the following prerequisites:
We need to make sure that our system is up to date before we start installing any new packages. We can do this by running the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
This command will check for any available updates for the installed packages and update them accordingly.
To install Squid on Manjaro, we can use the following command:
sudo pacman -S squid
This command will download and install the latest version of Squid from the Manjaro repository.
Once Squid is installed, we need to configure it according to our requirements. The configuration file for Squid is located at /etc/squid/squid.conf.
We can open the configuration file in our preferred text editor and make the required changes. We can configure Squid to act as a caching server or a forwarding proxy using various options in the configuration file.
Here is an example configuration for Squid to act as a caching server:
http_port 3128
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256
cache_mem 256 MB
maximum_object_size 50 MB
acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16
http_access allow localnet
In this configuration, we have set the HTTP port to 3128 and the cache directory to /var/spool/squid. We have also set the cache memory limit to 256 MB and the maximum object size to 50 MB.
We have defined an ACL named localnet for the local network and allowed HTTP access for this ACL.
Once Squid is configured, we can start the Squid service using the following command:
sudo systemctl start squid
We can also enable Squid to start automatically at boot time using the following command:
sudo systemctl enable squid
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Squid on Manjaro and configure it to act as a caching server. We have also seen how to start and enable the Squid service. We can now use Squid to improve web performance and provide content filtering on our network.
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