Dave, I am running an Internet Café in which I have about 10 workstations and one server. Now I am planning to configure a proxy server on LINUX for my cafe to improve performance in browsing. For this I have installed Complete REDHAT 9.0 in a machine equiped with 1.3G RAM, 80GB HDD, 1GHz MP, Intel P4, plus 2 NICs (Real Tech). But I have no idea about how to configure PROXY on it. Kindly let me know about any links or tutorial which can help me in a jumpstart. I do not want to mess with linux deeper. I just want to sonfigure PROXY and that is it.
Great to hear about your Internet Café! I’m unsurprised to hear that you’re finding it a bit tricky to configure a public Internet access facility to simultaneously offer good connectivity and security, however.
Since I’m not an expert at configuring proxy servers within the Linux world, I asked a couple of my colleagues at LinuxWorld Magazine for their suggestions, and here’s what they shared:
Steve Suehring suggested: that you start with Squid, a popular Linux proxy server. You can learn more about Squid at http://www.squid-cache.org/. Pay particular attention to the Squid Quick Start Guide, and if you really want to learn all the ins and outs, the book Squid: The Definitive Guide is apparently excellent.
Steve also notes that you can block banner ads automatically, a great service to your customers, by installing Adzapper. (of course, some folk would say that you’re doing your customers a disservice by blocking any Internet content, so you’ll have to make your own judgment call on this one).
Martin C. Brown also asked that I point you to his excellent article on Configuring Apache as a Proxy Server for ServerWorld. It’s well worth reading if you want to just sidestep Squid and the required configuration steps.
Either way, I think that should get you moving in the right direction. Good luck setting up your café and please do let me know if I can assist as you proceed further.
Hi sir,
I am working on squid proxy, when i try to ppcreport.php in my browser it shows “connection was reset” and for someother sites its shows “error 324” empty response.
i changed max_execution_time but still the same error.
can you help me.
Thanks
with regards,
Hari
Pls. can any one give procedure on how to configure squid on win2008
sir,
how can i configure(squid,smtp,httpd,ftp,sumbausre
permision,etc)
thnx u
no wy frind
Amazing post mate!
I’m currently fighting with myself to set a squid server up… For now I use web proxies from a proxylist like http://AnonTux.com . The method is quite good, but I will take a look at squid too!
Thanks again, hope you won’t stop to write such good posts (-;
puc48
hey im not getting http://www.facebook.com website as it is bloacked by server…. how to solve it?
what is the method to unbloack it?
Hi,
my Lan ip is 192.168.1.0/24 squid is working fine on url filtering ,today I have created webserver with dmz port ,I am able to access that server from outside world but not from LAN .
Any comments ?
bros………
jst follow it….
on ur terminal, jst install squid from yum…
then in /etc/squid/squid.conf
do a correction…..
change http_port to 8080
in http settings around637th line add
http_access allow good
around 589th line add
acl good src 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0.0
it’ll help u….
sir
i am working as technician in institute. we have 25 computers on net and one server. on we have install linux verson 5.4. and other pcs are installed windows xp service pack 2 . i wants to block some chating sites and adults sites. please help me.
how we can block the sites using the proxy server.
Please Support me.
sir,
I am working system admin my user all browsing enable and download working. i will stoped in all user end to browsing how to config proxy server in step by step windows or linux.
Please support me
Thanks
Hello,
I’m working in belwo as Linux Admin,
i want to controll the bandwidth on ipcop,it is linux based.
plz help me
Thankyou
sir
i am working as technician in some institute. we have 400 computers on net and one server. on we have install linux verson 5.0. and other pcs are installed windows xp service pack 2 . i wants to block some chating sites and adults sites. please help me how we can block the sites using the proxy server.
Please Support me.
Please help advise me on a project. We want to set up a proxy on 1 of our free wifi access points to serve ads from publisher can any one help me? our radios have 8mb memory. I will even pay or contract this out if it can be done quickly?? please email me with suggestions or prices to get this done. numberonerhino@aol.com Thank You!
Hello sir,
I am chandru from coimbatore i am working in a engineeering college. Here i want to config squid server in linux 5.0 but i no about this server so please tell me how to configue this server setp by step how to allow sites and restricted sites. What is requirement in my system… Please tell me.
sir
i am working as technician in some institute. we have 400 computers on net and one server. on we have install linux verson 9.0. and other pcs are installed windows xp service pack 2 . i wants to block some chating sites and adults sites. please help me how we can block the sites using the proxy server
Hi there. How your doing Mr. Dave? I got a quick question for ya? I’m new to the linux world. I need information in installing proxy server, firewall, mailgate, DHCP on linux server.
Hello
I have a little problem with my proxy server. I’ve allready configured squid and it’s working when my clients connect only using the dhcp server.
Now i want to connect my clients using pppoe. Unfortunatly when the client connects by pppoe they’re connection doesn’t pass through squid. How can i fix that.
Thanks