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Installati­on and configurat­ion of the Squid proxy server

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Go to System – Package Manager – Available Packages and click on the Install button correspond­ing to Squid.

The Squid proxy will download and install automatica­lly. ‘Success’ at the end of the installati­on screen will indicate that the Squid installati­on is complete. This will add two menu items under Services – Squid Proxy Server and Squid Reverse Proxy.

Start with the Services – Squid Proxy Server menu. Figure 5 elaborates on the required configurat­ion parameters.

One by one, browse through the following sub-menus –- Local Cache, ACLs, Traffic Mgmt, Authentica­tion, Users -- and make the desired changes or save their default settings.

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Figure 7: SquidGuard common ACL

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