How to Setup Transparent Squid Proxy Server in Ubuntu

Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

This is a short guide on how to set up a transparent squid proxy server. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

Install Squid

Install squid and squid-common

sudo aptitude install squid squid-common

Edit the squid config file.

sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

Set the allowed hosts.

acl internal_network src 192.168.0.0/24
http_access allow internal_network

Note: Where "192.168.0.0/24" is your IP range.

Set the correct permissions.

sudo chown -R proxy:proxy /var/log/squid/
sudo chown proxy:proxy /etc/squid/squid.conf

You will need to restart squid for the changes to take affect.

sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart

Now open up your browser and set your proxy to point to your new squid server on port 3128. Use WPAD for automatic configuration.

Block Malware sites with Squid

Download the malware list from malware.hiperlinks.com.br:

wget -O - http://malware.hiperlinks.com.br/cgi/submit?action=list_squid > /etc/squid/malware_block_list.txt

Add the following lines to /etc/squid/squid.conf

# File which contains the list 
acl malware_block_list url_regex-i "/etc/squid/malware_block_list.txt" 
# Access Denied 
http_access deny malware_block_list 
# Redirect message - (You can make your own) 
deny_info http://malware.hiperlinks.com.br/denied.shtml malware_block_list

Add the following to your crontab:

* 00,06 * * * wget -O - http://malware.hiperlinks.com.br/cgi/submit?action=list_squid > /etc/squid/malware_block_list.txt

Reload squid configuration using one (1) of the lines below:

service squid reload
/etc/init.d/squid reload
squid -k reconfigure

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