BY PANDITA MANOJ

Introduction of Squid Proxy Server

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Proxy servers are software applications that run on your firewall machine in order to provide indirect Internet access to your network. Squid is a caching proxy server which improves the bandwidth and the response time by caching the recently requested web pages. In Linux, Squid is the package used as proxy server.

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Advantages of squid Proxy Server

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The client applications speak directly to the proxy server and the proxy server in turn speaks directly to the Internet hosts on behalf of the client. We can able to allow or restrict the web addresses to be used by the clients. Good sites can be made allowed and bad sites can be restricted. This is the reason for configuring proxy server.

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Goals of squid Proxy Server In Comapny

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many small businesses are to: 1. Reduce Internet bandwidth charges 2. Limit access to the Web to only authorized users. 2. The Squid web caching proxy server can achieve both these goals fairly easily.

Configuration Information of Squid Prxoy

PACKAGE REQUIRED: #squid DAEMON: /usr/sbin/squid SCRIPT: /etc/init.d/squid PORT: 3128 ( squid ), (configurable) CONFIGURATION: /etc/squid/squid.conf SERVICE: service squid restart
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Check squid package is installed or not.

Open the squid configuration file.

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The configuration file has been opened.

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Go to line no 73, we can set default port number for squid.

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Go to line no:2410

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Writing the rule to allow the host1.

Here the ip-address for host 1 is mentioned.

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Allow the host1 to access the internet through proxy

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Start the daemon service for squid.

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Goto edit,preference to set proxy.

Click connection settings

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Set the proxy server ip and port number.

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Open the configuration file.

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Open the configuration file.

Allow the network starting from 172.24.0.1 to 172.24.0.10

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Allow the host2 to access through proxy.

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Restart the daemon service ..

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We can either allow or deny proxy from mon,tue,wed,thur,fri from 08:30-05:30.

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The host1 can access internet connection from 08:30 to 05:30

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Restart the daemon service.

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Open the configuration file.

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Restricting the bad search like .mp3,jpg.

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Host1bad is deny for host1.so he cannot access .mp3 search.

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Restart the daemon service.

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Host1 searching the .mp3

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Open the configuration file.

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Restricting the domain like google.com, orkut.com

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Denied the domain.

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Restart daemon service.

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We can restrict the domain using file also.

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List the domain to restrict .

Save and quit the file.

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Give the location of file in the dstdomain.

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Deny the bad sites.

Save and quit the file.

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Restart the daemon service.

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Setting password for the proxy.

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Using htpasswd command set the passwd Set the username store in the name /etc/squid/squidpasswd file

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Open the configuration file.

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Goto line number 1565.

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Copy and paste the line.

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Edit that line to Give will be /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth, authenticationthe location of the passwd file. takes place here.

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Setting the proxy auth required to enable the password

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Allow the host1 to access the password.

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Restart the daemon service.

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When the host1 access the internet. Authentication takes place.

It ask username and password

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Restrict the upload upto maximum 50 KB.

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Restart the daemon service.