Re: [squid-users] Please help with proxy configuration

> I'm a complete squid newbie. I'm trying to configure squid on a
> Linux/Apache web server. I don't need caching, but am only interested
> in using it as a proxy. Essentially what I want to do is make a DNS
> change so that (for example) somehost.com and someotherhost.com resolve
> to my squid/Apache server squidproxy.com. Then when you access
> www.somehost.com, you're directed to www.squidproxy.com, which then
> redirectes the request to www.somehost.com. The same for
> www.someotherhost.com.
> I've been reading the documentation for hours and cannot get this
> to work. Something like this:
>
> www.squidproxy.com -> www.somehost.com
> www.squidproxy.com -> www.someotherhost.com
>
>
> ...

   This is meaningless. Note that squid is a proxy and not a webserver.
   Browsers would think , that they are talking to a websever.

   -> Configure your browser to use the proxy, using manual proxy
setting , or using the auto-config fearure , for this one checkout :

 http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

 M.
Received on Wed Oct 19 2005 - 00:41:09 MDT