Re: [squid-users] Caching content on private servers

WebHead wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm trying to figure out whether I'm even going down the right path
> here - whether Squid is the right tool for the job.
>
> I'm writing a PHP web app that queries data from one of our databases.
> One bit of information returned by the query is the url to an image
> file, such as http://192.168.99.2/images/foo.jpg . The images are
> stored on any of three servers, at three separate physical locations.
> Each of the locations is connected back to my office via T1s. The web
> server, in the DMZ port on my firewall, is at my office.
>
> I was thinking of putting a squid server in the dmz - either on it's
> own box, or on the box I'm running the PHP app on, to pull those
> images, cache them & serve them to clients accessing the site. The
> problem is that none of the servers hosting the images are internet
> accessible, nor will they ever be. I also want to mimize traffic
> across the T1s.
>
> Is squid capable of doing this? If so, can any of you provide
> information on how to go about getting started? I've never dealt with
> squid before & haven't really found any documentation on my own which
> tells me how to configure this sort of setup. Everything I've read
> has been about configuring a proxy for people browsing the web.
>
> If there's a better way to do this, I'd be open to hearing about it too.
>
> Many thanks!
> Mike

Sounds like a match to me...

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy

Chris
Received on Tue Jan 09 2007 - 13:21:11 MST