Installing Squid Proxy Server in Ubuntu

By Fahad Ahammed

April 15, 2013 - One minute read - 148 words

sudo apt-get install squid3 ccze

Create directory for Cache, on this case cache directory placed on
directory /home/precise/cache/. Then change
the permissions cache directory to 777 and owner proxy:proxy

sudo mkdir -p /home/precise/cache/

sudo chmod 777 /home/precise/cache/

sudo chown proxy:proxy /home/precise/cache/

Before editing squid configuration, Make a backup of your
/etc/squid3/squid.conf file for future reference. Squid.conf has
nearly all the options listed and it is recommended to go through that
file to know more about squid options.

sudo cp /etc/squid3/squid.conf /etc/squid3/squid.conf.origin

sudo chmod a-w /etc/squid3/squid.conf.origin

Now edit /etc/squid3/squid.conf file, delete all options
in /etc/squid3/squid.conf then replace with squid3 configuration below

sudo nano /etc/squid3/squid.conf

Squid3 configuration:

precise

Create swap directory,

squid3 -z

Restart squid3:

sudo /etc/init.d/squid3 restart

Your squid proxy server installation and configuration is complete . You have to set ip and port (which is by default 3128) in your firefox.