Squid Internet Object Cache

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction and Background
    1. Why run a cache?
    2. Web Caching
    3. Derived from Harvest
  2. Implementation/Theory of Operation
    1. Single Process
    2. Non-Blocking I/O
    3. Dnsservers
    4. Proxy HTTP
    5. Internet Cache Protocol
    6. Hierarchical arrangement
    7. Firewalls
  3. Installation
    1. supported platforms
    2. building from source
    3. installation location
  4. Configuration
  5. Running
    1. command line options
    2. startup (wrapper) scripts
    3. support scripts
  6. Administration
    1. cachemgr.cgi
    2. Cache announcement service
    3. shutting down, restarting
    4. reconfiguring
    5. logfile rotation
  7. Logfiles
    1. cache.log
    2. access.log
    3. hierarchy.log
    4. store.log
  8. Version History
    1. Harvest cached-1.4.pl3
  9. Frequently Asked Questions