Cant find Cache Directory - Squid Install

[Tokunbo]

hello,

I was trying to install Squid on my PC, and I followed the tutorial at: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/Users-Guide/

I downloaded "squid-2.5.STABLE6.tar.gz". Following the tutorial, I created the directories " /usr/local/squid/src" and downloaded the file there. I untarred it, and a directory "squid-2.5.STABLE6" was created with many files inside.

I cd'd into the DIR and using the commands "./configure", "make", "make install" the app was installed.

I observed that other DIRs "bin, etc, libexec, man, sbin, share, src and var" had been created at "/usr/local/squid" together with the "src" i created before.

finally getting to this page of the tutoria "http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/Users-Guide/initial/dirs.html", it says

Squid normally creates a few directories. They are normally as follows:

/usr/local/squid
/bin
/cache
/etc
/logs/
/src (we created this earlier)

my problem is that there was no "cache" directory created....is it that it was created somewhere else? pls how do I find out....

another thing is that the "logs" directory is created under a "var" directory.

pls, are these observations an error during the installation....I wasnt prompted for any errors though....how do I locate the "cache" DIR if it was automatically placed somewhere else?

thanks
Toks

[Roxoff]

There is a squid command to initialise the cache, setting the amound of disk space it allocates, and where it puts it. Unfortunately, I dont run squid on its own any more, I use the version that comes with Smoothwall (configured by web interface), and I cant remember how I did it all those years ago.

Take a look through the squid man pages; it should be pretty easy to find.

[Tokunbo]

hello,

Pls can someone help with configuring my squid.......

Is there a GUI utility that can be used with RH9 for configuring squid...

Pls can u help with a very simple squid.conf file.......very simple


thanks
Toks

[Roxoff]

hello,

Pls can someone help with configuring my squid.......

Is there a GUI utility that can be used with RH9 for configuring squid...

Pls can u help with a very simple squid.conf file.......very simple


thanks
Toks

Here's the (modified) one from my smoothwall box:

visible_hostname <put your hostname here>
http_port 192.168.X.X&#58;8080 # use your ip address
acl localnet src 192.168.X.0/255.255.255.0
cache_mem 8 MB
maximum_object_size_in_memory 32 KB
cache_replacement_policy heap GDSF
memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF
half_closed_clients off
cache_swap_high 100%
cache_swap_low 80%
shutdown_lifetime 3 seconds
icp_port 0
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY
cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid
pid_filename /var/run/squid.pid
cache_access_log /var/log/squid/access.log
cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log
cache_store_log none
error_directory /usr/local/squid/etc/smootherrors
emulate_httpd_log on
log_mime_hdrs off
forwarded_for off
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl SSL_ports port 445 443 441 563
acl Safe_ports port 80                  # http
acl Safe_ports port 81                  # smoothwall http
acl Safe_ports port 21                  # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 445 443 441 563     # https, snews
acl Safe_ports port 70                  # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210                 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535          # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280                 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488                 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591                 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777                 # multiling http
acl CONNECT method CONNECT

http_access allow localhost
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access allow localnet
http_access deny all

maximum_object_size 8192 KB
minimum_object_size 0 KB

# set the cache_dir to whatever you use
cache_dir diskd /var/squid/cache 2000 16 256

request_body_max_size 0 KB
reply_body_max_size 0 allow all

I hope that helps.

[kkubasik]

The squid cache directory needs to be created for the first run (isnt by default for whatever reason

 squid -z

should do the trick, then try starting it up as before.