I'm setting up a squid proxy to reduce load on a partner's origin servers.
Right now I have two machines, and am using Apache mod_proxy, because it
was quick to setup, but I'd like to switch to squid so I can check my
cache peer before going to the origin server, and also generate better
statistics. (The partner really wants us to reduce the amount of traffic
going to their servers)
It looks like I definitely want to do something like
http_port 80
httpd_accel_host partner.example.org
httpd_accel_port 80
And maybe I need to add
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
cache_peer otherhost sibling 3128 3130
I'm worried that by adding httpd_accel_with_proxy on, I may be opening my
servers up to proxy the world for everybody (especially if I don't write
good acls)
Would it be better to setup squid as a 'regular' proxy on port 3128, and
configure apache on port 80 to be an accelerator proxy using squid?
Thanks,
Richard
