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    How to Setup Squid Proxy Server on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04

    By RahulNovember 20, 20183 Mins ReadUpdated:June 16, 2022

    Squid is the most popular Proxy server for Unix-like operating systems. It is also used for web filtering. Squid also useful as caching proxy server for the HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

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    This article will help you to set up Squid Proxy Server on Ubuntu 18.10, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 14.04 LTS systems.

    Step 1 – Install Package

    Squid packages are available in default yum repositories. Execute the below command on your server to install the SQUID proxy server.

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install squid
    

    Step 2 – Configure Squid Port

    The default port for the Squid proxy servers is 3128. You can change this as per the requirements. To set up Squid on different port, Edit squid configuration file and change http_port value with new port.

    /etc/squid/squid.conf
     http_port 3128
    

    After making changes let’s restart the Squid service to reload the configuration changes

    sudo service squid restart
    

    The next steps will help you to set up Squid Proxy Server on Ubuntu systems. Use only those settings, which is required for your proxy server.

    Step 3 – Allow All Traffic

    Sometimes you are required to allow all traffic on your proxy server. In Squid server open Squid configuration file. Comment the http_access deny all line and add the http_access allow all entry this file.

    /etc/squid/squid.conf
     http_access allow all
     #http_access deny all
    

    Squid allow all

    Step 4 – Block Specific Website with Squid

    Let’s start with the additional configuration like blocking any website using a squid proxy server. Add below rules to block specific websites before any allow all rules. The below example will block yahoo.com and www.rediff.com.

    /etc/squid/squid.conf
    acl blocksite1 dstdomain yahoo.com
    acl blocksite2 dstdomain www.rediff.com
    http_access deny blocksite1
    http_access deny blocksite2
    

    If you have a long list of domain names, Create a file /etc/squid/blockwebsites.lst and put domain names one per line and add the below rule in the squid configuration file.

    /etc/squid/squid.conf
    acl blocksitelist dstdomain "/etc/squid/blockwebsites.lst"
    http_access deny blocksitelist
    

    blockwebsites.lst file content example:

    cat /etc/squid/blockwebsites.lst
    
    yahoo.com
    www.rediff.com
    

    Step 5 – Block Specific Keyword with Squid

    Add below rules to block specific websites before any allow all rules. The below example will block all pages having the keyword yahoo or Gmail.

    /etc/squid/squid.conf
    acl blockkeyword1 url_regex yahoo
    acl blockkeyword2 url_regex gmail
    http_access deny blockkeyword1
    http_access deny blockkeyword2
    

    If you have a long list of keywords, Create a file /etc/squid/blockkeywords.lst and put keywords one per line and add the below rule in the squid configuration file.

    /etc/squid/squid.conf
    acl blockkeywordlist url_regex "/etc/squid/blockkeywords.lst"
    http_access deny blockkeywordlist
    

    blockkeywords.lst file content example:

    cat /etc/squid/blockkeywords.lst
    
    yahoo
    gmail
    facebook
    

    Congratulation’s you have successfully install and configured Squid proxy server. Read next article to Configure Squid for Mac Address Based Filtering.

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    10 Comments

    1. Raja Danyal on July 19, 2019 7:45 am

      how to set ip range of whole network that are using net to allow specific website and deny block_bad website

      Reply
    2. Zak on July 3, 2019 1:19 pm

      Good Article!

      Just a question to the tecadmin.net, how can i use multiple (additional) ip adresses for adittional proxies. I got some additional IP’s from my provider, but I don’t know how to set them up? Can you help tecadmin?

      Thanks & Regards,
      Alex

      Reply
    3. david on July 1, 2019 9:20 am

      I have done everything you said –
      the guide is very simple and clear –
      I got till the end and setup like you said , but now what?
      when I try to enter localhost:3128 – I get nothing
      where is the web gui?
      also how can I see it’s working?
      I try to setup in my router proxy serve – but it’s not working
      the comuter is 10.0.0.100 in my network – what do I need to do now?
      can you explain what to do now?
      Thanks ,

      Reply
    4. Hemanta Baruah on June 8, 2019 6:05 pm

      Open squid conf file as a root user…..
      sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

      Reply
    5. Anup Shetty on March 6, 2019 11:03 am

      How to get the access.log file in a readable format to generate Squid Proxy Reports

      Reply
      • mor on February 17, 2020 7:51 pm

        awk ‘{a[$3]++} END {for(i in a) print i}’ /var/log/squid/access.log

        Reply
    6. Bobak Tooyserkani on March 6, 2019 1:34 am

      I’m having trouble with Step 2, as the squid.conf file is [Read-Only] and it won’t allow me to overwrite it with my http_port number. What should I do?

      Reply
      • Rahul on March 6, 2019 4:17 am

        This might be a permission issue. Try setting proper permission and save file with “:wq!” in vim editor.

        Reply
    7. rownak on January 27, 2019 9:55 am

      great article for online user.

      Reply
    8. ChrisL on December 16, 2018 1:03 am

      I am pulling my hair out. Everytime I check my IP (web running thu squid proxy) from a site like whatsmyip.org, I get a different IP address each time. I only want the public IP address of the squid proxy server to show.

      Reply

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