February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 3m
English
To configure Squid as a server surrogate, we need to provide the appropriate options with various directives, depending on the requirements. We can configure Squid to act as a forward proxy and server surrogate at the same time. However, the access control rules must be written very carefully in such cases, which we will cover in our special section on Access Control Configuration for surrogate servers. However, to omit any possible confusion, it's always better to have a dedicated instance of Squid for server acceleration and a separate instance for the forward proxy.
Also, as Squid will be listening on port 80 to accept HTTP requests, our web server can't listen on the same IP address as Squid. In this ...
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