How To Install Squid on Fedora 23
Squid is a caching and forwarding web proxy. It is most often used in conjunction with a traditional LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and can be used to filter traffic on HTTP, FTP, and HTTPS, and increase the speed (thus lower the response time) for a web server via caching.
Pre-Flight Check
- These instructions are intended specifically for installing Squid on a single Fedora 23 node. If you’re using a different operating system, check out our guides to installing Squid on Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04, and CentOS 7.
- We’ll be logging in as root to a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 23 server.
Step #1 Install Squid
As a matter of best practice we’ll first update our packages:
dnf -y update
Now we’ll install Squid and related packages with:
dnf -y install squid
Step #2: Verify the Squid Installation
Use the following command to view information about the ‘squid’ command:
squid -h
Use the following command to check the version number of Squid and the configuration options it was started with:
squid -v
Your results should appear similar to:
Squid Cache: Version 3.5.9
Service Name: squid
configure options: '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--exec_prefix=/usr' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib64/squid' '--localstatedir=/var' '--datadir=/usr/share/squid' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--with-logdir=/var/log/squid' '--with-pidfile=/var/run/squid.pid' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--enable-eui' '--enable-follow-x-forwarded-for' '--enable-auth' '--enable-auth-basic=DB,LDAP,MSNT-multi-domain,NCSA,NIS,PAM,POP3,RADIUS,SASL,SMB,getpwnam' '--enable-auth-ntlm=smb_lm,fake' '--enable-auth-digest=file,LDAP' '--enable-auth-negotiate=kerberos' '--enable-external-acl-helpers=LDAP_group,time_quota,session,unix_group,wbinfo_group' '--enable-storeid-rewrite-helpers=file' '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-epoll' '--enable-icap-client' '--enable-ident-lookups' '--enable-linux-netfilter' '--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-ssl' '--enable-ssl-crtd' '--enable-storeio=aufs,diskd,ufs,rock' '--enable-diskio' '--enable-wccpv2' '--enable-esi' '--enable-ecap' '--with-aio' '--with-default-user=squid' '--with-dl' '--with-openssl' '--with-pthreads' '--disable-arch-native' '--with-pic' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--warn-shared-textrel' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig'
Step #3: Start Squid and Configure it To Start on Boot
To start Squid:
systemctl start squid
Set Squid to start at boot:
systemctl enable squid
To check the status of Squid:
systemctl status squid
To stop Squid:
systemctl stop squid
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