squid proxy server

                        setup squid proxy server

proxy server is used to block the sites in the office, to set up the normal proxy server you can follow the procedure  below

To install squid proxy server

#apt-get install squid

To view the status of squid

#service squid status

In this /etc/init.d/squid restart will not work so to start and stop the services

#service squid stop

#service squid start

To go to the configuration file

# cd /etc/squid

#ls

Here you will see squid.conf then make a copy of it so that it can be used after testing it

#cp squid.conf squid.conf.bak

To view the configuration file

#gedit /etc/squid/squid.conf &

then in the configuration file go assigin line no

then go to the line number around 3400. ther you will find something like

Tag: visible_hostname

at the bottom you type

visible_hostname sunnyproxyserver

then save

Then stop and start the service

#service squid stop

#service squid start

then give

Then to firefox for editing the firefox with system ip and http port no

first go to firefox -> edit -> prefernces -> advanced -> network -> then go to configuration of firefox connect to internet -> manual proxy config

HTTP 192.168.x.x port: 3128

then press ok

Then go to firefox and type any site then it will proxy is annoyoing to connect sunnyproxyserver

Then to configuration file

#gedit /etc/squid/squid.conf &

then go to line no aroun 600 you will find

#http_access allow localnet

then here uncomment the #

Then stop and start the service

# service squid stop

# service squid start

Then go to firefox and type any website it will open

Then again go to configuration file

# gedit /etc/squid/squid.conf &

go to line nop which we uncommented last

http_access allow localnet

here edit it as deny

like this

http_access deny localnet

Then stop and start the services

#service squid stop

#service squid start

then go to fire fox type any website it will be blocked as proxy connection sunnyproxyserver

Then go to configuration file again change the

http_access deny localnet

to

#http_acess allow alocalnet

if you want to block some websites then apply acl

then in configuration file around 630

you will find

TAG:http_access

there edit the configuration file at the bottom of it type

acl block_websites dstdomain .msn.com .espn.com

http_acces deny block_websites

then save

then stop and start the service

#service squid stop

#service squid start

then go to the browser nad type msn.com and espn.com it will not opened due to annoying of the proxy server

the see weather other sites are opening or not