Comments on: Install Squid Proxy Server on CentOS / Redhat enterprise Linux 5

By: Sathish

Sathish — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:08:28 +0000

Hello
Check permissions on cache directory. The premissions should be read and write

By: jose

jose — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:46:40 +0000

Hello, I get an error when I tried to do the command /etc/init.d/iptables restart, here was the output I received:

[root@andydaykin ~]# /etc/init.d/iptables restart
Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: mangle filter [ OK ]
Unloading iptables modules: [ OK ]
Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore: line 1 failed
[FAILED]

By: Techno

Techno — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:38:47 +0000

Just finished installing squid on my VPS. Thanks for the post.

By: Imran Haider

Imran Haider — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:25:54 +0000

how to block particular site on squid server like facebook. All site should open by squid in network but not facebook

By: sunil

sunil — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:11:03 +0000

hello sir
can please help me i have one public ip address i want share in different private ip in redhat 5.0 linux how i do it please help me and also i block some websit
my public ip is 210.212.11.130 and my private ip is 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.200
please tell me how i config dhcp,and squid

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:17:23 +0000

“-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -m tcp -p tcp –dport 3128 -j ACCEPT ”

I appended this to last of Iptables before COMMIT but when restarting iptables giving error on line 18( same line no. where I entered above lines

Please suggest

By: Prashant

Prashant — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:39:13 +0000

Hello,

I have installed Squid Proxy server( as per the procedure given on your website) for internet access in our LAN. But after configuring IE for using proxy server, the users are not able to get access to Internal SAP Servers. Tried with option “Bypass Proxy for local ..” but didnt work.
Can anyone help?

By: vinod

vinod — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:25:39 +0000

how to block some site in our network with the help of squid.
how to put webaddress in squid.conf ?
how to give special host permission for some machine for login gmail.com ?
can u help me

By: chetan

chetan — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:14:36 +0000

thank you so much,,,,,,,,,,,,

for give easy ways of understanding,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

By: swafoman

swafoman — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:28:42 +0000

Thank you so much for such a clear and simple set of instructions.
This REALLY made my day.
Got it all installed and up and running in no time.

Thanks.

By: mahesh

mahesh — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:49:54 +0000

i cont intall squid my system.. wat is the main problem….

By: galleline

galleline — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:23:49 +0000

same problem here

By: gani

gani — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:42:16 +0000

This command did not work and I was unable to view even http://www.google.com also.
[root@sys1 ~]# service iptables restart
Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore: line 1 failed
[FAILED]
[root@sys1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -m tcp -p tcp –dport 3128 -j ACCEPT
[root@sys1 ~]#

What shoud I do now??

By: amirthalingam

amirthalingam — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:50:05 +0000

hi
i want step by step configuration of squid proxy server in redhat linux 5.

By: Abdur Rob Mian

Abdur Rob Mian — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:57:42 +0000

# yum install squid
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package squid.i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-4.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
squid                   i386       7:2.6.STABLE6-4.el5  updates           1.2 M
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 1.2 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: squid                        ######################### [1/1]
Installed: squid.i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-4.el5
Complete!
# vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
At least you need to define ACL (access control list) to work with squid. The defaults port is TCP 3128. Following example ACL allowing access from your local networks 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24. Make sure you adapt to list your internal IP networks from where browsing should be allowed:
acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
http_access allow our_networks
Save and close the file. Start squid proxy server:
# chkconfig squid on
# /etc/init.d/squid start
Output:
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3128                0.0.0.0:*
Finally make sure iptables is allowing to access squid proxy server. Just open /etc/sysconfig/iptables file:
# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Append configuration:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -m tcp -p tcp --dport 3128 -j ACCEPT
Restart iptables based firewall:
# /etc/init.d/iptables restart
Output:
Flushing firewall rules:                                   [  OK  ]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter                    [  OK  ]
Unloading iptables modules:                                [  OK  ]
Applying iptables firewall rules:                          [  OK  ]
Loading additional iptables modules: ip_conntrack_netbios_n[  OK  ]

By: wasim

wasim — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:05:51 +0000

hi
i want learn more squid proxy server.
i want learn how to install squid.
and how to work on them

By: Sandeep Hegde

Sandeep Hegde — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:49:57 +0000

How about solving this error?

Error: the proxy server (Squid) is not configured to allow SSL tunnel to port 80.
To fix the problem please find and comment the following line in the Squid
configuration file (squid.conf):
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports

By: zjhack

zjhack — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:13:44 +0000

hi im zjhack and im using centos5. i wonder how to use squid for site restriction. i want to restrict some site and allow only the sites that my cousin can use to their studies..

pls help me thx
zjhack

By: Ferdaus

Ferdaus — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:04:25 +0000

I am Ferdaus. I want to know why IP Tables do not save.

By: Tefi

Tefi — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:49:21 +0000

Sir ,
I wanna know how to configure Squidguard 1.2 in redhat el5 ?