How To configure squid in windows 7

To configure Squid in windows 7

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web and it by tracking the objects use over the network. Squid has variety of uses and advantages such as speeding up web browsing for end user, reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. It also can work as web filtering and can control the browsing traffic. In this tutorial, you will learn about the method to configure Squid Proxy Cache on Windows 7.

Configuring Squid

For configuring Squid on your Windows machine, first you need to start the Squid service.

And then, open the Squid configuration file.

Your Squid configuration file contents will look like the one in the following image. .

In that file, you need to add the following lines.
Acl new src 192.168.7.237
http_access allow new

Check the following image for reference.

Once the above configuration is done, you need to save and close the file.

Once that is done, you need to stop and start the Squid service.

After that, you shall open a client machine and configure squid and for that, you need to open internet properties by typing inetcpl.cpl in the search-field of the start menu.

And then, you need to go to the Connections tab of the Internet Properties.

And in that, go to the LAN settings.

Here, choose proxy server and enter squid install machine ip addr and port 3128, and then click OK.

Afterwards, open the internet protocol setiings and remove DNS IP, and then click OK.

Now, you shall check if the internet is working through your browser.

With this, the method to configure Squid on Windows 7 comes to an end.