How To Install Squid 2.7 from source on Centos 6

Steps :

This squid installation is done on Centos6

1. Frist you need to install Development tools
#yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
2. Get the “squid 2.7 ” source. decompress it.
#wget http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/squid-2.7.STABLE9.tar.gz
#tar -xzvf squid-2.7.STABLE9.tar.gz
3. change directory to squid -2.7

root@xyz squid-2.7.STABLE9]#
check configure options by
#./configure -help
4. Select your configuration
like
./configure --enable-gnuregex --enable-carp --with-pthreads --enable-heap-replacement --enable-icmp --enable-delay-pools --enable-useragent-log --enable-htcp --with-openssl --enable-linux-netfilter --disable-internal-dns --enable-auth=digest,ntlm,basic --enable-auth-baisc=PAM,NCSA,LDAP --enable-auth-basic=none --enable-basic-auth-helpers=PAM,NCSA,LDAP --enable-external-acl-helpers=unix_group,ldap_group --with-filedescriptors=8192 --enable-removal-policies=lru,heap
5.Make it.

#make
Installation
for installation you need to have root privileges .
# su

# make Install
if you get it without errors congratulate yourself.
and proceed to next step .
Your default installation directory is
#/usr/local/squid/
6.post-Installation
After compiling and installing squid, you should create the cache_dir, give it the rights permissions for the squid user/group and then run:
#/usr/sbin/squid -z
to initialize the cache_dir and create the necessary subdirs
If everything works as expected then try to start squid normally

Code:

#/usr/sbin/squid

7. Debug.
If you get any errors start squid in debug mode to get the errors on screen:

Code:

#/usr/sbin/squid -N -d 5

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