Squid Installation on FreeBSD

[Guest obzerver]

Hi,

 

I need help with Squid Proxy Caching Software.

 

I have reviewed the official Squid documents and searched the web extensively for it but couldn't find a simple configuration guide.

 

 

Here is my problem:

 

1- I installed FREEBSD release 7 [ Full Installation ]

 

2- I installed SQUID 3

./configure

make

make install

 

3. added only

visible_hostname myhost

 

4. run the command

./squid -z

 

5. ./squid start

 

but ./squid -k check

gives me:

Squid: error: could not send signal 0 to process 15456: (3) no such process

 

 

 

my question:

what is the minimum configuration i can do to start using squid just ?

 

thanks

 

Moved from Windows to Linux

 

 

[moved from Terminal Shell Commands, etc by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

[Guest obzerver]

Thanks for the quick guide. It really helped and it is working. Thankful to chris_z

 

 

in squid.conf

i have added

visible_hostname mylinux

http_access allow all

icp_access allow all

cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache/ 100 16 256

 

 

Newbies: just make sure to follow these steps

2- I installed SQUID 3

./configure

make

make install

 

3. added only

visible_hostname myhost

 

4. run the command

./squid -z

 

if you get error here then follow these steps

 

sudo chmod -R 777 /squid/var/cache/

 

Am I right ?

 

5. ./squid start

 

but ./squid -k check

[Guest obzerver]

Now a quick question for the Squid Guru

 

How I can I add user authentication for the proxy

 

 

Anyone who connects to the proxy should get a username and password for verification..

 

how can I enable this on squid.

 

thanks

[spinynorman]

obzerver: I've moved your latest posts to this thread, and linked to the other one. Please don't raise the same problem in different topics - it causes confusion. :)

[Guest obzerver]

I checked the standard documentation,

 

it says to locate ncsa_auth

find / -name ncsa_auth

gives me nothing.

 

there is nothing in the /usr/local/squid/bin or /usr/local/squid/etc or /usr/local/squid/libexec

 

where can I find the ncsa_auth for freebsd ? and I have squid version 3

 

thanks