https://diogogomes.com/tags/ubuntu/Recent content in Ubuntu on Diogo GomesHugoen{year}Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:50:57 +0100https://diogogomes.com/2008/06/29/squid-transparent-proxy-in-ubuntu-804/Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:50:57 +0100https://diogogomes.com/2008/06/29/squid-transparent-proxy-in-ubuntu-804/<p><a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/">Squid</a> is the defacto proxy system. Either in the lab or at home I use a transparent squid proxy in order to have a global cache system for all my devices (I really hate browser caches that take all you disk space).</p> <p>For years now, in order to configure a transparent Squid proxy you had to put in the following lines:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>httpd_accel_host virtual </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>httpd_accel_port <span style="color:#ae81ff">80</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>httpd_accel_with_proxy on </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>httpd_accel_uses_host_header on </span></span></code></pre></div><p>plus the complimentary iptables rules in your router:</p>