How to Configure Reverse Proxy with Squid in CentOS
To Configure Reverse Proxy with Squid in CentOS
Squid is a proxy servers that acts as a reverse proxy to increase the performance for web services. The proxy server will stand behind the firewall of local network and redirects the every request from clients to backend webservers. This article shows how to configure reverse proxy with squid in CentOS.
Testing Environment
| IP Address | Hostname | |
| Squid Proxy Server | 192.168.5.237 | node1.example.com |
| Web Server | 192.168.5.238 | node2.example.com |
Pre-requisites
Basic webserver like Apache is required.
Fully qualified domain name is required for both machines including squid proxy server and web server.
Hostname resolution between two servers, either configure DNS or create entry as follows on /etc/hosts file,
192.168.5.237 node1.example.com node1
192.168.5.238 node2.example.com node2
Installation of Squid package
Run the following command to install Squid package.
[root@node1 ~]# yum install squid -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
base | 3.6 kB 00:00:01
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.fibergrid.in
* extras: mirror.fibergrid.in
* updates: mirror.fibergrid.in
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package squid.x86_64 7:3.3.8-26.el7_2.4 will be installed
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Installed:
squid.x86_64 7:3.3.8-26.el7_2.4
Dependency Installed:
libecap.x86_64 0:0.2.0-9.el7 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2.x86_64 0:2.061-3.el7 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.x86_64 1:2.061-4.el7 perl-DBI.x86_64 0:1.627-4.el7
perl-Data-Dumper.x86_64 0:2.145-3.el7 perl-Digest.noarch 0:1.17-245.el7 perl-Digest-MD5.x86_64 0:2.52-3.el7 perl-IO-Compress.noarch 0:2.061-2.el7
perl-Net-Daemon.noarch 0:0.48-5.el7 perl-PlRPC.noarch 0:0.2020-14.el7
Complete!
To Configure Squid as Reverse Proxy
Utilize the following command to configure Squid as reverse proxy. Edit the squid’ s default configuration file as follows,
[root@node1 ~]# vim /etc/squid/squid.conf
Add the below lines under line number 53 and specify the FQDN of backend webserver http_port 80 accel defaultsite=node2.example.com in the 59th line. Finally, uncomment the 62nd line (remove “ #” symbol before the line).
#cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256 cache_peer node2.example.com parent 80 0 no-query originserver cache_mem 256 MB visible_hostname node1.example.com
Once the squid is configured, start and enable the service to take effect.
[root@node1 ~]# systemctl restart squid
[root@node1 ~]# systemctl enable squid
ln -s ' /usr/lib/systemd/system/squid.service' ' /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/squid.service'
Open the web browser with the hostname of squid proxy machine to check the output. It will display the content from the web server that acts in the back-end of reverse proxy settings.
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