Squid: The Definitive Guide
Squid: The Definitive Guide By Duane Wessels
January 2004
Pages: 464

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. Web Caching

    2. A Brief History of Squid

    3. Hardware and Operating System Requirements

    4. Squid Is Open Source

    5. Squid's Home on the Web

    6. Getting Help

    7. Getting Started with Squid

    8. Exercises

  2. Chapter 2 Getting Squid

    1. Versions and Releases

    2. Use the Source, Luke

    3. Precompiled Binaries

    4. Anonymous CVS

    5. devel.squid-cache.org

    6. Exercises

  3. Chapter 3 Compiling and Installing

    1. Before You Start

    2. Unpacking the Source

    3. Pretuning Your Kernel

    4. The configure Script

    5. make

    6. make Install

    7. Applying a Patch

    8. Running configure Later

    9. Exercises

  4. Chapter 4 Configuration Guide for the Eager

    1. The squid.conf Syntax

    2. User IDs

    3. Port Numbers

    4. Log File Pathnames

    5. Access Controls

    6. Visible Hostname

    7. Administrative Contact Information

    8. Next Steps

    9. Exercises

  5. Chapter 5 Running Squid

    1. Squid Command-Line Options

    2. Check Your Configuration File for Errors

    3. Initializing Cache Directories

    4. Testing Squid in a Terminal Window

    5. Running Squid as a Daemon Process

    6. Boot Scripts

    7. A chroot Environment

    8. Stopping Squid

    9. Reconfiguring a Running Squid Process

    10. Rotating the Log Files

    11. Exercises

  6. Chapter 6 All About Access Controls

    1. Access Control Elements

    2. Access Control Rules

    3. Common Scenarios

    4. Testing Access Controls

    5. Exercises

  7. Chapter 7 Disk Cache Basics

    1. The cache_dir Directive

    2. Disk Space Watermarks

    3. Object Size Limits

    4. Allocating Objects to Cache Directories

    5. Replacement Policies

    6. Removing Cached Objects

    7. refresh_pattern

    8. Exercises

  8. Chapter 8 Advanced Disk Cache Topics

    1. Do I Have a Disk I/O Bottleneck?

    2. Filesystem Tuning Options

    3. Alternative Filesystems

    4. The aufs Storage Scheme

    5. The diskd Storage Scheme

    6. The coss Storage Scheme

    7. The null Storage Scheme

    8. Which Is Best for Me?

    9. Exercises

  9. Chapter 9 Interception Caching

    1. How It Works

    2. Why (Not) Intercept?

    3. The Network Device

    4. Operating System Tweaks

    5. Configure Squid

    6. Debugging Problems

    7. Exercises

  10. Chapter 10 Talking to Other Squids

    1. Some Terminology

    2. Why (Not) Use a Hierarchy?

    3. Telling Squid About Your Neighbors

    4. Restricting Requests to Neighbors

    5. The Network Measurement Database

    6. Internet Cache Protocol

    7. Cache Digests

    8. Hypertext Caching Protocol

    9. Cache Array Routing Protocol

    10. Putting It All Together

    11. How Do I ...

    12. Exercises

  11. Chapter 11 Redirectors

    1. The Redirector Interface

    2. Some Sample Redirectors

    3. The Redirector Pool

    4. Configuring Squid

    5. Popular Redirectors

    6. Exercises

  12. Chapter 12 Authentication Helpers

    1. Configuring Squid

    2. HTTP Basic Authentication

    3. HTTP Digest Authentication

    4. Microsoft NTLM Authentication

    5. External ACLs

    6. Exercises

  13. Chapter 13 Log Files

    1. cache.log

    2. access.log

    3. store.log

    4. referer.log

    5. useragent.log

    6. swap.state

    7. Rotating the Log Files

    8. Privacy and Security

    9. Exercises

  14. Chapter 14 Monitoring Squid

    1. cache.log Warnings

    2. The Cache Manager

    3. Using SNMP

    4. Exercises

  15. Chapter 15 Server Accelerator Mode

    1. Overview

    2. Configuring Squid

    3. Gee, That Was Confusing!

    4. Access Controls

    5. Content Negotiation

    6. Gotchas

    7. Exercises

  16. Chapter 16 Debugging and Troubleshooting

    1. Some Common Problems

    2. Debugging via cache.log

    3. Core Dumps, Assertions, and Stack Traces

    4. Replicating Problems

    5. Reporting a Bug

    6. Exercises

  1. Appendix A Config File Reference

  2. Appendix B The Memory Cache

  3. Appendix C Delay Pools

    1. Overview

    2. Configuring Squid

    3. Examples

    4. Issues

    5. Monitoring Delay Pools

  4. Appendix D Filesystem Performance Benchmarks

    1. The Benchmark Environment

    2. General Comments

    3. Linux

    4. FreeBSD

    5. OpenBSD

    6. NetBSD

    7. Solaris

    8. Number of Disk Spindles

  5. Appendix E Squid on Windows

    1. Cygwin

    2. SquidNT

  6. Appendix F Configuring Squid Clients

    1. Manually

    2. Proxy Auto-Configuration

    3. WPAD

    4. Summary

  7. Colophon

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