Dave T wrote:
I just set up squid for the first time. It is on a Ubuntu box hosted
on Linode.com. I have zero experience with proxy servers. I used this
guide:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Seting-Up-a-HTTP-Proxy-Server-with-Authentication-and-Filtering-52467.shtml
Eeek! That tutorial is advising people to create open proxies for global
public access (allow all).
(I also looked at a few other guides such as this one:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320733. However, I wanted to
most barebones config to start with and the link I used was the
simplest I found.)
The simplest and safest documentation is in:
/usr/share/doc/squid-common/QUICKSTART
or
/usr/share/doc/squid3-common/QUICKSTART
... which outlines the minimal config changes to go from a clean install
of your particular version to a working proxy.
So now that I have it set up, I'm testing it with FoxyProxy. It is not
working well. Many web pages do not load completely. Some load very
slowly. A few load fast (but even then, some images are often
missing). Many times I have to try an address several times before a
page will even start to load.
I am using iptables. When I turn the firewall off, I have slightly
less problems, but nothing significantly changes. I don't want to
leave the firewall off, so I took a few ideas from here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-setup-transparent-proxy-squid-howto.html
But the changes I put in actually made the performance a little worse
than before. And like I said, even with the firewall off, the problems
I described remain.
What should I look at next to begin to understand my problem? Thanks.
Coming here was a good start.
We are going to need to known the version of Squid you are using, there
are a dozen or more available on Ubuntu.
Also, we are going to have to see what squid.conf you have ended up
working with. Minus the documentation comments and empty lines please.
BTW, is there a recent preconfigured squid virtual appliance that I
could host on Amazon EC2 (or similar) that would be suitable for my
own personal proxy server?
Not that I'm aware of. There have been several attempts in the last
years to get a current Squid appliance made. But none of those people
have reported back even to advertise their wares.
Amos
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Please be using
Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE21
Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.15
