Squid Protected on Linux Stream 10 offers an advanced proxy solution with enhanced security features, ensuring safe and efficient web traffic management.
This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.
Connection to Squid Protected on Linux Stream 10
To work, you should open ports 22, and 3128 (TCP) in the network properties in the Amazon firewall. After purchasing and starting the VM, you should know its IP address. You can find it in Amazon’s account
To connect to the Server, you should generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instructions (by choosing the “file format:” option “.ppk” in point 3) Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM
- Connecting to the VM using the PuTTY application. You can download it at the following link – Download
- Go to section SSH on the left panel, and then to Auth
- In the “Auth” section, click “Browse” and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.
- Go to the home page of “Session”, enter the IP address of the VM, and click “Open”.
- In the opened console, you will need to enter the login ec2-user
- You must open the settings to use the proxy server through the built-in Windows tools. Click “Start“ (1), then “Settings“ (2)
- In Settings, select “Network & Internet”
- Go to the “Proxy” section and set the “Use a proxy server” switch to On
- In the Address field, enter the IP address of the VM, and in the Port field, specify 3128. Then click the Save button
- To 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
Check out the following links for further documentation and support for Squid Proxy
SquidFaq – Squid Web Proxy Wiki
Non-English Squid Documentation
Now you should be able to connect to Squid Protected on Linux Stream 10
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