From bemoko developer wiki

Introduction

Squid is an excellent caching proxy suitable for caching requests from a bemokoLive server and request made by a bemokoLive server. In particular it provides value if bemokoLive sites make requests for external sites such as adapting an existing external web site for mobile.

Installation

FC

yum install squid

/etc/init.d/squid start

Configuration file @ /etc/squid/squid.conf

Logs @ /var/log/squid

Mac OS

sudo port install squid^[1]

sudo -u squid /opt/local/sbin/squid -N -d 1 -D^[2] ← test installation

Logs are written to /opt/local/var/squid/logs and cache is written to /opt/local/var/squid/cache/

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.Squid.plist ← add to startup

Remove from startup with:

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.Squid.plist ← remove from startup

Configuration

Default port - 3128

Squid Web Console

To enable the squid web console copy the cachemgr.cgi into the Apache cgi-bin^[3], e.g.:

cp /opt/local/libexec/cachemgr.cgi /opt/local/apache2/cgi-bin

Access Control Lists

To control access to specific domain or domains^[4]:

acl whitelist dstdomain .myhost.com
http_access allow whitelist
http_access deny all

Administration

squidclient -m PURGE http://bemoko.com/^[5]← purge a URL from the cache

References

1. ↑ Squid - http://squid.darwinports.com/
2. ↑ Starting squid - http://www.deckle.co.za/squid-users-guide/Starting_Squid
3. ↑ Optimising squid - http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap28sec235.html
4. ↑ dstdomain - http://www.visolve.com/squid/squid24s1/access_controls.php
5. ↑ SquidFAQ - http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/OperatingSquid#head-f418956943bd72ee8b94390ec9df241c3d1dfd20