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This howto guide was created to describe setting up a Squid Proxy/DansGuardian server using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed with the LAMP server option. This guide assumes the user has previous knowledge of installing a LAMP server using Ubuntu and will not be covered. While each program may have a multitude of options [...]

You can create access control lists with time parameters. For example, you can allow only business hour access from the home network, while always restricting access to host 192.168.1.23.
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# Add this to the bottom of the ACL section of squid.conf
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acl home_network src 192.168.1.0/24
acl business_hours time M T W H F 9:00-17:00
acl RestrictedHost src 192.168.1.23

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# Add [...]

First of all ensure that you have squid installed. After installing squid, you need to set access control in squid configuration file which resides in /etc/squid by default. Open /etc/squid/squid.conf and add/edit following lines according to your preferences. Few lines already exist in the configuration file, you can add the rest.

# The port on which [...]

How to Configure httpd-accelerator mode with Squid
The squid.conf file is used to set and configure all the different options for your Squid proxy server. In the configuration file below, we’ll configure the /etc/squid/squid.conf file to be in httpd-accelerator mode. In this acceleration mode, if the Web Server runs on the same [...]

To compile Squid, you will need an ANSI C compiler. Almost all modern Unix systems come with pre-installed compilers which work just fine. The old SunOS compilers do not have support for ANSI C, and the Sun compiler for Solaris is a product which must be purchased separately.
If you are uncertain [...]

If you’re suffering from memory limitations on your system, the cache performance of Squid will be affected. To reduce this problem, you can link Squid with an external malloc library such as GNU malloc. To make Squid use GNU malloc as an external library, follows these simple steps:
These are the Package(s) required:

GNU [...]

Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (but not quite – we’re getting there!) HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

Configure your /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid script file to start and stop the Squid Internet Object Cache. This script has been modified to setup swap cache for Squid in /cache instead of /var/spool/squid. Create the squid script file, touch /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid and add:

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With some minor modification to the squid.conf file we have defined above to run in httpd-accelerator mode, we can run Squid as a proxy-caching server. With a proxy cache server, all users in your corporate network use Squid to access the Internet. With this configuration, you can have complete control, and [...]

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process.