Squid: The Definitive Guide

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Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Written by Duane Wessels, the creator of Squid, Squid: The Definitive Guide will help you configure and tune Squid for your particular situation. Newcomers to Squid will learn how to download, compile, and install code. Seasoned users of Squid will be interested in the later chapters, which tackle advanced topics such as high-performance storage options, rewriting requests, HTTP server acceleration, monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting Squid.  Read more... Abstract: Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Written by Duane Wessels, the creator of Squid, Squid: The Definitive Guide will help you configure and tune Squid for your particular situation. Newcomers to Squid will learn how to download, compile, and install code. Seasoned users of Squid will be interested in the later chapters, which tackle advanced topics such as high-performance storage options, rewriting requests, HTTP server acceleration, monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting Squid Content: Squid: The Definitive Guide Recommended Reading Conventions Used in This Book Comments and Questions Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 1.2. A Brief History of Squid 1.3. Hardware and Operating System Requirements 1.4. Squid Is Open Source 1.5. Squid & s Home on the Web 1.6. Getting Help 1.6.2. Mailing Lists 1.6.2.2. squid-announce 1.6.2.3. squid-dev 1.6.3. Professional Support 1.7. Getting Started with Squid 1.8. Exercises 2. Getting Squid 2.2. Use the Source, Luke 2.3. Precompiled Binaries 2.4. Anonymous CVS 2.5. devel.squid-cache.org 2.6. Exercises. 3. Compiling and Installing3.2. Unpacking the Source 3.3. Pretuning Your Kernel 3.3.1.2. Linux 3.3.1.3. Solaris 3.3.2. Mbuf Clusters 3.3.3. Ephemeral Port Range 3.4. The configure Script 3.4.2. Running configure 3.5. make 3.6. make Install 3.7. Applying a Patch 3.8. Running configure Later 3.9. Exercises 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager 4.2. User IDs 4.3. Port Numbers 4.4. Log File Pathnames 4.5. Access Controls 4.6. Visible Hostname 4.7.