Squid Proxy Configuration

If you forgot to install squid during the install you can install squid after the fact with.

 yum install squid

squid comes setup to ... by default. To allow a network to use it, edit /etc/squid/sqid.conf

 visible_hostname computername
 http_access allow our_networks
 acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

Save the file.

Stop squid

 service squid stop

Create the need disk space for squid

 squid -z

Start squid

 service squid start

Make sure the port is open in iptables.

 netstat -tulpn | grep 3128

If you don't get any output you will need to edit iptables.

 service iptables save
 vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Add this line

 -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 3128 -j ACCEPT

and restart iptables and check it again.

 service iptables restart
 netstat -tulpn | grep 3128

Don't forget to make sure squid starts when your reboot.

 chkconfig squid on