Re: [gentoo-user] Caching Proxy alternative to Squid?

[Florian Philipp]

Am 31.05.2011 19:36, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> Hello!
>
> I've been having problems with my Squid-equipped Gentoo box: For some
> sites, Squid just times out. But if I access the sites directly, they
> appear in my browser. And doing a direct wget from the Squidbox also
> works.
>
> Now I'm not sure whose 'fault' it is, but just in case it's Squid's,
> I'll experiment with other web proxies.
>
> Unfortunately, the selection in portage seems very limited. Oops,
> Polipo, and 3proxy seem to have gone dormant, and Apache Traffic
> Server is still Bug#335637 ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/335637 )
>
> So, what can I do?
>
> Rgds,
>
>

Well, apache itself with mod_proxy works reasonably well but it doesn't
support https and ftp, as far as I remember. Make sure to change the
default config. I'll attach my config
(/etc/apache2/modules.d/50_mod_proxy.conf).

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
  ProxyRequests On

# Allow access from the local net only
  <Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 192.168.
    Allow from 127.
  </Proxy>

# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.
# ("Full" adds the server version;
#  "Block" removes all outgoing Via: headers)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block
      ProxyVia On

# Enable the cache as well
# (no caching without CacheRoot)
  <IfModule mod_cache.c>
    <IfModule mod_disk_cache.c>
      CacheRoot "/var/cache/apache2/proxy"
      CacheEnable disk /

      # Using many CacheDirLevels makes cache cleanup very slow
      CacheDirLevels 1
      # Using long names can lead to too many files per directory for FS
      CacheDirLength 2
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

There is no size limit for apache's cache. For this, you have to execute
htcacheclean as a cron job.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp