WebHead wrote:
Hi - I'm trying to figure out whether I'm even going down the right path here - whether Squid is the right tool for the job. I'm writing a PHP web app that queries data from one of our databases. One bit of information returned by the query is the url to an image file, such as http://192.168.99.2/images/foo.jpg . The images are stored on any of three servers, at three separate physical locations. Each of the locations is connected back to my office via T1s. The web server, in the DMZ port on my firewall, is at my office. I was thinking of putting a squid server in the dmz - either on it's own box, or on the box I'm running the PHP app on, to pull those images, cache them & serve them to clients accessing the site. The problem is that none of the servers hosting the images are internet accessible, nor will they ever be. I also want to mimize traffic across the T1s. Is squid capable of doing this? If so, can any of you provide information on how to go about getting started? I've never dealt with squid before & haven't really found any documentation on my own which tells me how to configure this sort of setup. Everything I've read has been about configuring a proxy for people browsing the web. If there's a better way to do this, I'd be open to hearing about it too. Many thanks! Mike
Sounds like a match to me... http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy Chris
