Learn How To Install Squid Proxy on CentOS
Table of Contents
- Step 1: Installing Squid
- Step 2: Editing configuration
- Step 3: Open port in firewall
- Step 3: Restarting service
- Step 4:
Squid is a popular, free Linux program that allows you to create a forwarding web proxy. In this guide, you’ll see how to install Squid on CentOS to turn your server into a web proxy.
Squid can be configured as a reverse proxy as well, but that type of setup is not covered in this article.
This guide was written for CentOS 6, but should also work for CentOS 7.
Step 1: Installing Squid
I’m going to assume that you have a new CentOS server. You can now install Squid with yum
:
yum install squid
Step 2: Editing configuration
You can now configure Squid. The configuration file is located at the following path:
vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
Open this file with your favorite text editor in order to configure Squid settings. You can find an overview of them on the official Squid website.
Step 3: Open port in firewall
Now open the Squid port in the firewall. The default port is 3128
. If you changed it, naturally, open the port you set Squid to run on:
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 3128 -j ACCEPT
Step 3: Restarting service
You can now restart the Squid service:
service squid restart
To make Squid start every time you start your server, use chkconfig
:
chkconfig squid on
In order to see your users’ activity, you can use the tail
command to read the logs:
tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log
Step 4:
https://www.itweb.services/tutorials/linux-guides/connecting-to-a-proxy-from-os-x-windows-and-linux”>this guide.
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