Re: [squid-users] Newbie questions

Thanks. Your comments were very helpful .. however, I did not understand
the last paragraph .... What did you mean by a "web facing proxy", and what
does accelerated mode do ... (I have seen that mentioned many times)

Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Perreault" <Chris.Perreault@Wiremold.com>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:52 PM
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Newbie questions

The # lines are commented default settings. If you wanted to you could just
get rid of all the lines that began with a #.

I went through the original conf file and wherever a made a change I added
an extra line above the change, that read: "# added <date> ..by chris"

That way I could do a search on "# added" and scroll down through all the
lines I changed/added. Those would be the only lines that I'd need to run
Squid. This also assists in helping you keep track of changes, what works,
what needs removing/changing, etc.

As for a default conf file, there are so many different ways of setting it
up, different uses for it, that there would be a lot of "default" config
files.

Ie: you might want to use one form of authentication as a web facing proxy
server, that your internal users would be using. I might want to set it up
in a accelerated mode to protect and simplify access to our internal web
servers to the public internet users, using a different form of
authentication.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Marshall [mailto:peter.marshall@caris.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:20 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Newbie questions

Hi all.

I just installed squid (last week), and have been playing around with it for
a bit ....

I would like to try and reduce the conf file by oh say ... 2000 lines :) ..
but I really don't understated what allot of the configurations are for ..
even after reading endless amounts of docs .... Does any one have a good
"default" squid config .. that only allows for normal http and ftp stuff.

My second question has to do with stats ... I have been trying mrtg .. I
have it installed .. but I can not figure out how to make it show a graph
... If someone knows how to do this I would Really appreciate it .... I fond
a page with a load of config files on it ... but I am not sure how to get
them to work. The page I found was this:
http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/MRTG/SquidMonitoringWithMRTG

Anyway, if someone who does not mind helping out a newbie would not mind
giving me a hand, I would REALLY appreciate it .... I am more stuck on the
last question .....

Thank you.
Peter Marshall
Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 11:56:02 MDT