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Configuring Srewquid Proxy Server

The document provides information about configuring the Squid proxy server on Linux. Squid is an open source, high-performance proxy caching server that can speed up a web server by caching repeated requests. It caches web, DNS, and other network requests for groups of users sharing network resources. The document discusses installing and configuring Squid, setting up proxy clients like Firefox, and controlling web access through Squid using ACL rules. It also provides instructions for configuring a FTP server using VSFTPD, including options for public vs private FTP access and restricting users.

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Configuring Srewquid Proxy Server

The document provides information about configuring the Squid proxy server on Linux. Squid is an open source, high-performance proxy caching server that can speed up a web server by caching repeated requests. It caches web, DNS, and other network requests for groups of users sharing network resources. The document discusses installing and configuring Squid, setting up proxy clients like Firefox, and controlling web access through Squid using ACL rules. It also provides instructions for configuring a FTP server using VSFTPD, including options for public vs private FTP access and restricting users.

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Configuring Squid Proxy Server

Sure Squid server is a popular open source GPLd proxy and web cache. It has a variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, name server query , and other network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources. It is primarily designed to run on Linux / Unix-like systems. Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports nonblocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests. Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data (ftpget), and some management and client tools.

1. Check the necessary RPM #rpm q squid

if it's not installed first install it #yum install squid

2. Set the default gateway and the DNS on the proxy server, so it has a direct connection as an internet. #system-config-network-tui

3. Give the information about your local network on the proxy server. #nano /etc/squid/squid.conf Press CTRL + W Search our_networks

4. Uncomment this lines #acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24 //Remove # mark #http_access allow our_networks //Remove # mark 5. Save (CTRL + O) and Exit (CTRL + X) file

6. Start the proxy service #service squid start #chkconfig squid on

Settings up proxy clients

The proxy client is an application that required internet through the proxy server EX Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

Fire Fox Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced --> Network --> Settings --> manually proxy configuration http proxy : 192.168.2.101 port : 3128 // proxy server IP and port number

Now clients have to access internet through proxy

Controlling web access through proxy

1. Open the following file #nano /ect/squid/squid.conf Press CTRL + W Search # http_access deny all

Put all the rules that you want to control web access through proxy under the above comment. All the block rules must come before the allow rules

To block unwanted website acl blockweb dstdomain .facebook.com .yahoo.com .google.com http_access deny blockweb

To block unwanted file download acl blockfile urlpath_regex i exe$ mp3$ avi$ rar$ http_access deny blockfile

To allow POP3/ SMTP to access mail through proxy server acl allowmail proto POP3 SMTP http_access allow allowmail

2. Save (CTRL + O) and exit (CTRL +X) the file

3. Reload squid service #service squid reload

Configuring a FTP server (VSFTPD)


01. Check the necessary RPM [root@daddylinux~]#rpm q vsftpd //very secure file transfer protocol daemon

02. Start the FTP service [root@daddylinux~]#service vsftpd start [root@daddylinux~]#chkconfig vsftpd on

03. The FTP service will be automatically configured in the following two different ways Public FTP - No username or password necessary Private FTP A valid username and password is necessary Public FTP If you need any body to access files from your FTP server without given username and password, you will have copy all the files that other people need to download in to /var/ftp folder.

Go to the web browser and enter the your FTP address (http://ftp.server.lk) Private FTP

Create a user account on the ftp server and use that account login in to the FTP server through the web server. You will be automatically log in to the users home folder. [root@daddylinux~]#useradd uddika [root@daddylinux~]#passwd uddika

Go to the browser and enter the address ftp://[email protected]

If you wish to disable public FTP

01. Edit the configuration file [root@daddylinux~]#nano /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

anonymous-enable = YES Change to anonymous-enable = NO How to restrict unnecessary users through FTP

01. Edit the configuration file [root@daddylinux~]#nano /etc/vsftpd/ftpusers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Uddika // Enter the username

02. Reload the service [root@daddylinux~]#service vsftpd reload

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