RE: [squid-users] Squid accelerator for multiple sites?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Turgut Kalfaoglu [mailto:turgut@egenet.com.tr]
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:28 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Squid accelerator for multiple sites?
>
>
> Hello there. I am trying to configure squid (2.5) to act as a "front
> end" for multiple web servers,
> running on the local machine, plus a few other LAN machines.
> Each web
> server hosts many web sites, so we use "virtuals"
>
> I first compiled squid with the configure option to disable internal
> DNS lookup and wrote the IP addresses of several of the web sites (as
> www.website.com) into /etc/hosts.

Squid will use /etc/hosts even if it internal DNS lookups are enabled.

>
> Despite much trying in squid.conf, with or without the
> various virtual
> options, and even after trying version 3 of squid, nothing
> worked and I
> am back to 2.5 now.
>
> Did anyone get a setup like this (web servers on the local
> machine and
> elsewhere) to work?
> If so, I would very much appreciate your input.

Did you see the user guide section on acceleration (http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/Users-Guide/detail/accel.html)? Use the third option (set httpd_accel_uses_host_header on), and use a redirector.

>
> Regards,
> -turgut
>
>
>

Chris
Received on Tue Sep 06 2005 - 11:56:04 MDT