Guide – How To Start – Squid: Easy Proxy Server on Linux CentOS 7.9 on Amazon

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. It has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.


In Settings select “Network & Internet”.
  1. Go to the “Proxy” section and set the “Use a proxy server” switch to On
  2. In the Address field, enter the address of the VM, and in the Port field, specify 3128. Then click the Save button.
  1. o check the connection to the proxy server, open the https://www.myip.com/ website in any browser and check if your IP address has changed.
  2. Check out the following links for further documentation and support for Squid Proxy

https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/

https://wiki.squid-cache.org/

http://www.squid-cache.org/Support/

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