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Squid proxy server to block websites listed in file

March 20, 2014 by Sharad Chhetri 12 Comments

In this tutorial we will use Squid proxy server to block websites listed in file. Here,we will list the website in a file called “restricted-sites.squid”. In our last post we have already setup the squid transparent proxy. The How to guide will help to install and configure the latest Squid Server. Advantage of using file […]

Install and configure transparent squid proxy server : RHEL/CentOS 6.x

March 15, 2014 by Sharad Chhetri 50 Comments

In this tutorial,we will learn about how to install and configure transparent squid proxy server on RHEL/CentOS 6.x .In this practical,we will install Squid version 3.5.0 package in CentOS 6.5 / RHEL 6.5 . Squid server are designed to run in Unix like operating system. Up to version 2.7, Windows Operating System was supportive. Till […]

SELINUX : squid service failed to start/restart

March 7, 2014 by Sharad Chhetri 1 Comment

After installing the Squid Version 3.5.0 in CentOS 6.5. I got the issue,squid service failed to start/restart. Generally, after installing the package with by-default configuration,we can start/stop/restart the service without any problem.This time squid gave me trouble here. I checked the /var/log/messages and there was no sufficient logs giving any hint. In other words,I have […]