RE: [squid-users] complete newbie

 
>
> Hello Squid users,
>
> Is it possible someone can point me in the right direction? I
> have just
> installed Redhat9 which has squid installed as a componant.
> It seems to be
> installed in /etc/squid (certainly this is where the
> squid.conf file is
> located).
>
> In all the faq's I have searched through it would seem it is
> normally installed
> in /usr/local/squid/etc. This itself has thrown me. Have I
> missed a step I am
> asuming because it is bundled software I dont need to compile it?!
>
> So my next assumtion was that I would need to modify the
> squid.conf file. This
> seems fairly strait forward with a little help from the FAQ's
> however There are
> a few questions I have either found the answer to and dont
> really comprehend or
> haven't been able to find.
>
> Firstly I have configured the ports for incomming requests
> from my workstations
> and I am happy with that and because the Local education
> authority run a
> filtering proxy service i am aware i need to set a parent
> proxy and the port to
> connect to it. this is where my problem lies, If i set it as
> a parent proxy and
> set the port for Squid to connect to it all well and good,
> but what happens with
> the returned traffic from the parent I assume it will come
> back on the same port
> I connect to the parent on, however, I dont have a clue as to
> where in the
> squid.conf this should be configured.

  You don't have a problem here. Configuring the needed parent implies
 that squid will forward requests to this parent and listen for the answer
 on the initiated connection with the parent.

>
> I would be much obliged if someone could help me I have
> already made one
> fruitless trip to the friendly computer supermarket who fail
> to stock any books
> on squid. So I will have to try and dig out my old redhat bible.
>

      Have a look at :
 
            http://squidbook.org/

      M.
Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 08:35:06 MST