How to install Squid in Webmin
How to install Squid in Webmin
Squid is the most popular proxy server for UNIX/Linux systems. Squid supports both proxying, caching and HTTP acceleration, and has a large number of configuration options to control the behavior of these features. Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open source apps, such as the Apache HTTP Server, PHP or MySQL. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Squid in Webmin.
Installation procedure
To start with the installation procedure, switch over to browser and link for webmin installation then access it on your browser https://192.168.7.191:10000. The webmin login page appears.
Login to webmin with the administrator credentials.
The Webmin dashboard is shown as follows.
In the dashboard, there will be a left side pane containing a list of modules to use. select " Un-used-modules" and the system information for the modules are shown below.
Select the squid proxy server and click the click here option to download the package to your system.
After the installation is complete, you will get a message page when the package is installed successfully. Click the " return to squid proxy server" option.
The Squid proxy server' s graphical dashboard is shown below.
The installation procedure of Squid on Webmin is done successfully.
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