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32
0f74202c 33COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 34 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
35 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
38 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
39 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 40
cccac0a2 41 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
42 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
43 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
44 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
45 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
46 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
47 case.
debd9a31 48
cccac0a2 49COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_START
52 NETWORK OPTIONS
53 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
54COMMENT_END
55
56NAME: http_port ascii_port
57TYPE: http_port_list
58DEFAULT: none
59LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
60DOC_START
61 Usage: port [options]
62 hostname:port [options]
63 1.2.3.4:port [options]
64
65 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
66 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
67 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
68 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
7f7db318 69 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
cccac0a2 70 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
71 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
72 address, so you can use the port number alone.
73
7f7db318 74 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
cccac0a2 75 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
76
77 The -a command line option will override the *first* port
78 number listed here. That option will NOT override an IP
79 address, however.
80
81 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
82
116c6cca 83 Options:
84
85 transparent Support for transparent proxies
86
87 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
88 accelerator directives
89
90 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
91 domain support
92
93 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
94
95 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
96 than the http_port number
97
98 defaultsite= Main web site name for accelerators
99
100 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
101 Defaults to http
cccac0a2 102
103 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
7f7db318 104 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
cccac0a2 105 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
106 visible on the internal address.
107NOCOMMENT_START
108# Squid normally listens to port 3128
109http_port 3128
110NOCOMMENT_END
111DOC_END
112
113NAME: https_port
114IFDEF: USE_SSL
115TYPE: https_port_list
116DEFAULT: none
117LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
118DOC_START
119 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
120
121 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
122 requests.
123
124 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
125 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
126 accelerator level.
127
128 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
129 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
7f7db318 130
cccac0a2 131 Options:
132
133 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
116c6cca 134 this port
cccac0a2 135
136 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests
116c6cca 137 with. Defaults to https
cccac0a2 138
139 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format)
7f7db318 140
cccac0a2 141 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
142 if not specified, the certificate file is
143 assumed to be a combined certificate and
144 key file
145
146 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
147 1 automatic (default)
148 2 SSLv2 only
149 3 SSLv3 only
150 4 TLSv1 only
151
152 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers
153
154 options= Varions SSL engine options. The most important
155 being:
156 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
157 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
158 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
159 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
160 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
161 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
116c6cca 162 documentation for a complete list of options
cccac0a2 163
164 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
165 requesting a client certificate
166
167 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
168 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
116c6cca 169 clientca will be used
cccac0a2 170
171 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
172 to use when verifying client certificates
173
174 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
175 DH key exchanges
176
177 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
178 DELAYED_AUTH
179 Don't request client certificates
180 immediately, but wait until acl processing
181 requires a certificate
7f7db318 182 NO_DEFAULT_CA
cccac0a2 183 Don't use the default CA list built in
116c6cca 184 to OpenSSL
185
186 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
187 accelerator directives
188
189 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
190 domain support
191
192 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
193
194 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
195 than the https_port number
cccac0a2 196
197DOC_END
198
199NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
200IFDEF: USE_SSL
201TYPE: onoff
202DEFAULT: off
203LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
204DOC_START
205 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
206 messages.
207DOC_END
208
209NAME: ssl_engine
210IFDEF: USE_SSL
211TYPE: string
212LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
213DEFAULT: none
214DOC_START
215 The openssl engine to use. You will need to set this if you
216 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
217DOC_END
218
219NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
220IFDEF: USE_SSL
221DEFAULT: none
222LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
223TYPE: string
224DOC_START
225 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
226DOC_END
227
228NAME: sslproxy_client_key
229IFDEF: USE_SSL
230DEFAULT: none
231LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
232TYPE: string
233DOC_START
234 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
235DOC_END
236
237NAME: sslproxy_version
238IFDEF: USE_SSL
239DEFAULT: 1
240LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
241TYPE: int
242DOC_START
243 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
244DOC_END
245
246NAME: sslproxy_options
247IFDEF: USE_SSL
248DEFAULT: none
249LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
250TYPE: string
251DOC_START
252 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
253DOC_END
254
255NAME: sslproxy_cipher
256IFDEF: USE_SSL
257DEFAULT: none
258LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
259TYPE: string
260DOC_START
261 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
262DOC_END
263
264NAME: sslproxy_cafile
265IFDEF: USE_SSL
266DEFAULT: none
267LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
268TYPE: string
269DOC_START
270 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
271 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
272DOC_END
273
274NAME: sslproxy_capath
275IFDEF: USE_SSL
276DEFAULT: none
277LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
278TYPE: string
279DOC_START
280 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
281 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
282DOC_END
283
284NAME: sslproxy_flags
285IFDEF: USE_SSL
286DEFAULT: none
287LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
288TYPE: string
289DOC_START
290 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
291 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
292 verify.
293 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
294 to OpenSSL.
295DOC_END
296
307b83b7 297NAME: sslpassword_program
298IFDEF: USE_SSL
299DEFAULT: none
300LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
301TYPE: string
302DOC_START
303 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
304 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
305 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
306 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
307DOC_END
308
cccac0a2 309NAME: icp_port udp_port
310TYPE: ushort
311DEFAULT: 0
312LOC: Config.Port.icp
313DOC_START
314 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
315 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
316 Default is disabled (0).
317NOCOMMENT_START
318icp_port 3130
319NOCOMMENT_END
320DOC_END
321
322NAME: htcp_port
323IFDEF: USE_HTCP
324TYPE: ushort
325DEFAULT: 4827
326LOC: Config.Port.htcp
327DOC_START
328 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
329 and from neighbor caches. Default is 4827. To disable use
330 "0".
331DOC_END
332
333
334NAME: mcast_groups
335TYPE: wordlist
336LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
337DEFAULT: none
338DOC_START
339 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
340 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
341
342 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
343 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
344 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
345 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
346 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
347 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
348 receive replies from multicast group members.
349
350 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
351 is already in use by another group of caches.
352
353 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
354 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
355
356 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
357
358 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
359DOC_END
360
361
362NAME: udp_incoming_address
363TYPE: address
364LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
365DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
366DOC_NONE
367
368NAME: udp_outgoing_address
369TYPE: address
370LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
371DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
372DOC_START
373 udp_incoming_address is used for the ICP socket receiving packets
374 from other caches.
375 udp_outgoing_address is used for ICP packets sent out to other
376 caches.
377
378 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
379
f939c0ca 380 A udp_incoming_address value of 0.0.0.0 indicates Squid
381 should listen for UDP messages on all available interfaces.
cccac0a2 382
383 If udp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 384 it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 385 change this if you want to have ICP queries sent using another
386 address than where this Squid listens for ICP queries from other
387 caches.
388
389 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
390 have the same value since they both use port 3130.
391DOC_END
9e7dbc51 392
cccac0a2 393COMMENT_START
394 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
395 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
396COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 397
cccac0a2 398NAME: cache_peer
399TYPE: peer
400DEFAULT: none
401LOC: Config.peers
402DOC_START
403 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
9e7dbc51 404
cccac0a2 405 cache_peer hostname type http_port icp_port [options]
0fdafae7 406
cccac0a2 407 For example,
d1b63fc8 408
cccac0a2 409 # proxy icp
410 # hostname type port port options
411 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
412 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
413 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
414 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
415
416 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
417
418 proxy_port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
419 requests.
420
421 icp_port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
422 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
423 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
424 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
425 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
426
427 options: proxy-only
428 weight=n
429 basetime=n
430 ttl=n
431 no-query
432 background-ping
433 default
434 round-robin
435 weighted-round-robin
436 carp
437 multicast-responder
438 closest-only
439 no-digest
440 no-netdb-exchange
441 no-delay
442 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
443 connect-timeout=nn
444 digest-url=url
445 allow-miss
446 max-conn
447 htcp
448 originserver
449 name=xxx
450 forceddomain=name
451 ssl
452 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
453 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
454 sslversion=1|2|3|4
455 sslcipher=...
456 ssloptions=...
457 front-end-https[=on|auto]
7f7db318 458
459 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
cccac0a2 460 from this cache should not be saved locally.
461
462 use 'weight=n' to specify a weighted parent.
463 The weight must be an integer. The default weight
464 is 1, larger weights are favored more.
465
466 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
467 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
468 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
469 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
7f7db318 470 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 471
472 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
473 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
474 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
475 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
476 hosts, you must configure other group members as
477 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
478
479 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
480 neighbor.
481
482 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
7f7db318 483 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
484 round trip time updated and is usually used in
cccac0a2 485 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
486
487 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
488 be used as a "last-resort." You should probably
489 only use 'default' in situations where you cannot
490 use ICP with your parent cache(s).
491
492 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
493 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
494 absence of any ICP queries.
495
7f7db318 496 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
497 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
498 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
499 time. Closer parents are used more often.
cccac0a2 500 Usually used for background-ping parents.
501
502 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
7f7db318 503 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
cccac0a2 504 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
505 balancing hash function based on their weigth.
506
7f7db318 507 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
cccac0a2 508 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
509 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
510 will be accepted from it.
511
512 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
513 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
514 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
515
516 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
517 this neighbor.
518
519 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
520 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
521
522 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
523 from influencing the delay pools.
524
525 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
526 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
527 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
7f7db318 528 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
cccac0a2 529
530 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
531 the upstream proxy. This will pass the users credentials
532 as they are to the peer proxy. This only works for the
533 Basic HTTP authentication sheme. Note: To combine this
534 with proxy_auth both proxies must share the same user
535 database as HTTP only allows for one proxy login.
7f7db318 536 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
cccac0a2 537 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
538
539 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
540 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
541 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
542 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
543 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
544 information which is added to the username. This can
545 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
546 the login=username:password option above.
547
548 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
549 specific connect timeout (also see the
550 peer_connect_timeout directive)
551
552 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
553 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
554 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
555 location.
556
557 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
558 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
559 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
560 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
561 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
562 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
563 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
564 source is a peer)
565
566 use 'max-conn' to limit the amount of connections Squid
567 may open to this peer.
568
569 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
570 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
571 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
7f7db318 572
cccac0a2 573 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
574 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
575
576 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
7f7db318 577 host but different ports. This name can be used to
cccac0a2 578 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
579 directives.
580
581 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
582 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
583 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
584 name and using redirectors to feed this domainname
585 is not feasible.
586
7f7db318 587 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
cccac0a2 588 bs SSL/TLS encrypted.
589
590 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
591 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
592
593 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
594 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
7f7db318 595 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
cccac0a2 596 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
597
598 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
599 when connecting to this peer
600 1 = automatic (default)
601 2 = SSL v2 only
602 3 = SSL v3 only
603 4 = TLS v1 only
604
605 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL chipers
606 to use when connecting to this peer
607
608 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
609 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
610 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
611 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
612 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
613 a more complete list.
614
615 use cafile=... to specify a file containing additional
616 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
617
618 use capath=... to specify a directory containing additional
619 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
620
621 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
622 SSL implementation:
623 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
624 Accept certificates even if they fail to
625 verify.
7f7db318 626 NO_DEFAULT_CA
cccac0a2 627 Don't use the default CA list built in
628 to OpenSSL.
629 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
7f7db318 630 Don't verify the peer certificate
cccac0a2 631 matches the server name
632
633 use sslname= to specify the peer name as advertised
634 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
635 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
636 peer hostname will be used.
637
638 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
639 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend infront
640 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
7f7db318 641 on this header. If set to auto the header will
cccac0a2 642 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
643 URL.
644
645 NOTE: non-ICP neighbors must be specified as 'parent'.
646DOC_END
647
648NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
649TYPE: hostdomain
650DEFAULT: none
651LOC: none
652DOC_START
653 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
654 queried. Usage:
655
656 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
657 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
658
659 For example, specifying
660
661 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
662
663 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
664 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
665 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
7f7db318 666 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
cccac0a2 667 NOT in that domain.
668
669 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
670 either on the same or separate lines.
671 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
672 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
673 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
674 for all requests.
675 * There are no defaults.
676 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
677 section.
678DOC_END
679
680
681NAME: neighbor_type_domain
682TYPE: hostdomaintype
683DEFAULT: none
684LOC: none
685DOC_START
686 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
687
688 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
689 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
690 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
691 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
692 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
693 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
694
695EXAMPLE:
696 cache_peer parent cache.foo.org 3128 3130
697 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
698 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
699DOC_END
700
701NAME: icp_query_timeout
702COMMENT: (msec)
703DEFAULT: 0
704TYPE: int
705LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
706DOC_START
707 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
708 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
709 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
710 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
711 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
712 timeout (the old default), you would write:
713
714 icp_query_timeout 2000
715DOC_END
716
717NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
718COMMENT: (msec)
719DEFAULT: 2000
720TYPE: int
721LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
722DOC_START
723 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
724 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
725 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
726 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
727 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
728 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
729DOC_END
730
731NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
732COMMENT: (msec)
733DEFAULT: 5
734TYPE: int
735LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
736DOC_START
737 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
738 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
739 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
740 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
741 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
742 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
743 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
744DOC_END
745
746NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
747COMMENT: (msec)
748DEFAULT: 2000
749TYPE: int
750LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
751DOC_START
752 For Multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
753 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
754 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
755 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
756 seconds.
757DOC_END
758
759NAME: dead_peer_timeout
760COMMENT: (seconds)
761DEFAULT: 10 seconds
762TYPE: time_t
763LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
764DOC_START
765 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
766 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
767 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
768 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
769 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
770 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
771
772 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
773 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
774 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
775 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
776 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
777 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
778 instead of to your parents.
779DOC_END
780
781
782NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
783TYPE: wordlist
784DEFAULT: none
785LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
786DOC_START
787 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
788 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
789 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
790 list this option multiple times.
791NOCOMMENT_START
792#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
793hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
794NOCOMMENT_END
795DOC_END
934b03fc 796
6a566b9c 797
cccac0a2 798NAME: no_cache
799TYPE: acl_access
800DEFAULT: none
801LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
802DOC_START
803 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
804 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
805 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
6a566b9c 806
cccac0a2 807 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
808 NOT be cached.
1e5562e3 809
cccac0a2 810NOCOMMENT_START
811#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
812acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
813no_cache deny QUERY
814NOCOMMENT_END
815DOC_END
816
817NAME: background_ping_rate
818COMMENT: time-units
819TYPE: time_t
820DEFAULT: 10 seconds
821LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
822DOC_START
823 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
824 have background-ping set.
825DOC_END
1e5562e3 826
934b03fc 827
cccac0a2 828COMMENT_START
829 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE CACHE SIZE
830 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
831COMMENT_END
832
833NAME: cache_mem
834COMMENT: (bytes)
835TYPE: b_size_t
836DEFAULT: 8 MB
837LOC: Config.memMaxSize
838DOC_START
839 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
840 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
841 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
842 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
843
844 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
845 for:
846 * In-Transit objects
847 * Hot Objects
848 * Negative-Cached objects
849
850 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
851 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
852 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
853 priority.
854
855 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
856 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
857 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
858 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
859 not needed for in-transit objects.
860
861 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
862 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
863 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
864 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
865 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
866 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
867 objects.
868DOC_END
869
870
871NAME: cache_swap_low
872COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
873TYPE: int
874DEFAULT: 90
875LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
876DOC_NONE
877
878NAME: cache_swap_high
879COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
880TYPE: int
881DEFAULT: 95
882LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
883DOC_START
884
885 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
886 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
887 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
888 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
889 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
890 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
7f7db318 891
cccac0a2 892 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
893 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
894 numbers closer together.
895DOC_END
896
897NAME: maximum_object_size
898COMMENT: (bytes)
899TYPE: b_size_t
900DEFAULT: 4096 KB
901LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
902DOC_START
903 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
904 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
905 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
906 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
907 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
908 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
909
910 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
911 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
912 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
913DOC_END
914
915NAME: minimum_object_size
916COMMENT: (bytes)
917TYPE: b_size_t
918DEFAULT: 0 KB
919LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
920DOC_START
921 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
922 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
923 means there is no minimum.
924DOC_END
925
926NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
927COMMENT: (bytes)
928TYPE: b_size_t
929DEFAULT: 8 KB
930LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
931DOC_START
932 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
933 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
934 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
935 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem .
936DOC_END
937
938NAME: ipcache_size
939COMMENT: (number of entries)
940TYPE: int
941DEFAULT: 1024
942LOC: Config.ipcache.size
943DOC_NONE
944
945NAME: ipcache_low
946COMMENT: (percent)
947TYPE: int
948DEFAULT: 90
949LOC: Config.ipcache.low
950DOC_NONE
951
952NAME: ipcache_high
953COMMENT: (percent)
954TYPE: int
955DEFAULT: 95
956LOC: Config.ipcache.high
957DOC_START
958 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
959DOC_END
960
961NAME: fqdncache_size
962COMMENT: (number of entries)
963TYPE: int
964DEFAULT: 1024
965LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
966DOC_START
967 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
968DOC_END
969
970NAME: cache_replacement_policy
971TYPE: removalpolicy
972LOC: Config.replPolicy
973DEFAULT: lru
974DOC_START
975 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
976 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
977
978 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
979 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
980 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
981 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
982
983 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
984
985 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
986
987 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
988 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
989 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
990 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
991
992 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
993 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
994 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
995 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
996
997 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
998 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
999 replacement policies.
1000
1001 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1002 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1003 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
1004
1005 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1006 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1007 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
1008DOC_END
1009
1010NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1011TYPE: removalpolicy
1012LOC: Config.memPolicy
1013DEFAULT: lru
1014DOC_START
1015 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1016 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
1017
1018 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1019DOC_END
934b03fc 1020
1f7c9178 1021
cccac0a2 1022COMMENT_START
1023 LOGFILE PATHNAMES AND CACHE DIRECTORIES
1024 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1025COMMENT_END
9bc73deb 1026
cccac0a2 1027NAME: cache_dir
1028TYPE: cachedir
1029DEFAULT: none
1030DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1031LOC: Config.cacheSwap
1032DOC_START
1033 Usage:
7f7db318 1034
cccac0a2 1035 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
cf5cc17e 1036
cccac0a2 1037 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1038 cache among different disk partitions.
8e8d4f30 1039
cccac0a2 1040 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
1041 is built by default. To eanble any of the other storage systems
1042 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
934b03fc 1043
cccac0a2 1044 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1045 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
7f7db318 1046 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
cccac0a2 1047 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1048 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
1e5562e3 1049
cccac0a2 1050 The ufs store type:
1051
1052 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1053 been there.
1054
1055 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1056
1057 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1058 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1059 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1060 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1061 subtract 20% and use that value.
1062
1063 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1064 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
1065
1066 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1067 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1068 is 256.
1069
1070 The aufs store type:
1071
1072 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1073 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1074 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
1075
1076 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1077
1078 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1079
1080 The diskd store type:
1081
1082 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1083 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1084 disk-I/O.
1085
1086 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
1087
1088 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1089
1090 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1091 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1092 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
1093
1094 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1095 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
44f991b5 1096 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
cccac0a2 1097
af9ad249 1098 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1099 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1100 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1101 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1102 time.
1103
1a224843 1104 The coss store type:
1105
1106 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1107 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1108 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1109 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1110 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
7f7db318 1111 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1a224843 1112 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
1113
c8f4eac4 1114 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
1115 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
1116 this will be created by squid -z.
1117
cccac0a2 1118 Common options:
1119
1120 read-only, this cache_dir is read only.
1121
1122 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1123 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1124 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1125 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1126 ones with no max-size specification last.
1a224843 1127
7f7db318 1128 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1a224843 1129 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1130 option.
c8f4eac4 1131
1132 The null store type:
1133
1134 no options are allowed or required
cccac0a2 1135DOC_END
1136
1137
1138NAME: logformat
1139TYPE: logformat
1140LOC: Config.Log.logformats
1141DEFAULT: none
1142DOC_START
1143 Usage:
1144
1145 logformat <name> <format specification>
1146
1147 Defines an access log format.
1148
1149 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
7f7db318 1150
cccac0a2 1151 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
1152 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically quoted
1153 as required according to their context and the output format
1154 modifiers are usually unneeded but can be specified if an explicit
1155 quoting format is desired.
1156
1157 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
7f7db318 1158
cccac0a2 1159 " quoted string output format
1160 [ squid log quoted format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1161 # URL quoted output format
1162 ' No automatic quoting
1163 - left aligned
7f7db318 1164 width field width. If starting with 0 the
cccac0a2 1165 output is zero padded
1166 {arg} argument such as header name etc
1167
1168 Format codes:
1169
1170 >a Client source IP address
1171 >A Client FQDN
1172 <A Server IP address or peer name
1173 la Local IP address (http_port)
1174 lp Local port number (http_port)
1175 ts Seconds since epoch
1176 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1177 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1178 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1179 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1180 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1181 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1182 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1183 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1184 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1185 as for >h
1186 un User name
1187 ul User login
1188 ui User ident
1189 ue User from external acl
1190 Hs HTTP status code
1191 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1192 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1193 mt MIME content type
1194 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1195 ru Request URL
1196 rv Request protocol version
1197 et Tag returned by external acl
1198 ea Log string returned by external acl
1199 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
03b29b6c 1200 <sH Reply high offset sent
1201 <sS Upstream object size
cccac0a2 1202 % a literal % character
1203
1204logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
1205logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
1206logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
1207logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
1208DOC_END
1209
1210NAME: access_log cache_access_log
1211TYPE: access_log
1212LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
1213DEFAULT: none
1214DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@
1215DOC_START
1216 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
1217 ICP request. The format is:
1218 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
1219 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
1220
1221 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
1222 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
1223 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
1224 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
7f7db318 1225
cccac0a2 1226 To disable logging of a request specify "none".
1227DOC_END
1228
1229
1230NAME: cache_log
1231TYPE: string
1232DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
1233LOC: Config.Log.log
1234DOC_START
1235 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
1236 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
1237 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
1238DOC_END
1239
1240
1241NAME: cache_store_log
1242TYPE: string
1243DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
1244LOC: Config.Log.store
1245DOC_START
1246 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
1247 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
1248 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
1249 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
1250 disable it.
1251DOC_END
1252
1253
e2529a2c 1254NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
cccac0a2 1255TYPE: string
1256LOC: Config.Log.swap
1257DEFAULT: none
1258DOC_START
e2529a2c 1259 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
1260 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
1261 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
cccac0a2 1262 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
1263 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
1264 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
1265 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
1266
7f7db318 1267 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
cccac0a2 1268 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
1269 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
1270 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
7f7db318 1271
cccac0a2 1272 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
7f7db318 1273 these swap logs will have names such as:
cccac0a2 1274
1275 cache_swap_log.00
1276 cache_swap_log.01
1277 cache_swap_log.02
1278
1279 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
1280 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
1281 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
7f7db318 1282 lines in this file, these log files will NOT correspond to
cccac0a2 1283 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
7f7db318 1284 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
cccac0a2 1285 better to keep these log files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
1286DOC_END
1287
1288
1289NAME: emulate_httpd_log
1290COMMENT: on|off
1291TYPE: onoff
1292DEFAULT: off
1293LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
1294DOC_START
1295 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
1296 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
1297 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
1298 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
7f7db318 1299 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
cccac0a2 1300DOC_END
1301
1302NAME: log_ip_on_direct
1303COMMENT: on|off
1304TYPE: onoff
1305DEFAULT: on
1306LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
1307DOC_START
1308 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
1309 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
1310 prefer the old way set this to off.
1311DOC_END
1312
1313NAME: mime_table
1314TYPE: string
1315DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
1316LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
1317DOC_START
1318 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
1319 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
1320 information if you do.
1321DOC_END
1322
1323
1324NAME: log_mime_hdrs
1325COMMENT: on|off
1326TYPE: onoff
1327LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
1328DEFAULT: off
1329DOC_START
1330 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
1331 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
1332 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
1333 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
1334 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
1335DOC_END
1336
1337
1338NAME: useragent_log
1339TYPE: string
1340LOC: Config.Log.useragent
1341DEFAULT: none
1342IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
1343DOC_START
1344 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
1345 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
1346 is disabled.
1347DOC_END
1348
1349
1350NAME: referer_log
1351TYPE: string
1352LOC: Config.Log.referer
1353DEFAULT: none
1354IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
1355DOC_START
1356 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
1357 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
1358DOC_END
1359
1360
1361NAME: pid_filename
1362TYPE: string
1363DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
1364LOC: Config.pidFilename
1365DOC_START
1366 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
1367DOC_END
1368
1369
1370NAME: debug_options
d9e04dc7 1371TYPE: debug
cccac0a2 1372DEFAULT: ALL,1
1373LOC: Config.debugOptions
1374DOC_START
1375 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
1376 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
1377 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
1378 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
1379 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
1380 "ALL,1".
1381DOC_END
1382
1383
1384NAME: log_fqdn
1385COMMENT: on|off
1386TYPE: onoff
1387DEFAULT: off
1388LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
1389DOC_START
1390 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
1391 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
1392 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
1393 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
1394 browsing.
1395DOC_END
1396
1397
1398NAME: client_netmask
1399TYPE: address
1400LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
1401DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
1402DOC_START
1403 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
1404 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
1405 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
1406 the last digit set to '0'.
1407DOC_END
0976f8db 1408
0976f8db 1409
cccac0a2 1410COMMENT_START
1411 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
1412 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1413COMMENT_END
1414
1415NAME: ftp_user
1416TYPE: string
1417DEFAULT: Squid@
1418LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
1419DOC_START
1420 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
1421 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
1422 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
1423
7f7db318 1424 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
cccac0a2 1425 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
1426 depending on how the cache is used.
7f7db318 1427 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
cccac0a2 1428 (for example perl.com).
1429DOC_END
1430
1431NAME: ftp_list_width
1432TYPE: size_t
1433DEFAULT: 32
1434LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
1435DOC_START
1436 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
1437 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
1438 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
1439DOC_END
1440
1441NAME: ftp_passive
1442TYPE: onoff
1443DEFAULT: on
1444LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
1445DOC_START
1446 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
7f7db318 1447 connections, turn off this option.
cccac0a2 1448DOC_END
1449
1450NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
1451TYPE: onoff
1452DEFAULT: on
1453LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
1454DOC_START
1455 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
1456 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
1457 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
1458 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
7f7db318 1459 connection turn this off.
cccac0a2 1460DOC_END
1461
1462NAME: check_hostnames
1463TYPE: onoff
1464DEFAULT: on
1465LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
1466DOC_START
1467 For security and stability reasons Squid by default checks
1468 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you do not want
7f7db318 1469 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive off.
cccac0a2 1470DOC_END
1471
dad0fe12 1472NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
1473TYPE: onoff
1474DEFAULT: on
1475LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
1476DOC_START
1477The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
1478as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
1479implemenations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
1480the FTP protocol.
1481
1482If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
7f7db318 1483path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
1484try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
dad0fe12 1485operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
1486is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
1487DOC_END
1488
cccac0a2 1489NAME: cache_dns_program
1490TYPE: string
1491IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1492DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
1493LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
1494DOC_START
1495 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
1496DOC_END
1497
1498NAME: dns_children
1499TYPE: int
1500IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1501DEFAULT: 5
1502LOC: Config.dnsChildren
1503DOC_START
1504 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
1505 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
1506 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
1507 is 32. The default is 5.
1508
1509 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
1510DOC_END
1511
1512NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
1513TYPE: time_t
1514DEFAULT: 5 seconds
1515LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
1516IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1517DOC_START
1518 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
1519 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
1520
1521DOC_END
1522
1523NAME: dns_timeout
1524TYPE: time_t
1525DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1526LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
1527IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1528DOC_START
1529 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7f7db318 1530 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
1531 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 1532DOC_END
1533
1534NAME: dns_defnames
1535COMMENT: on|off
1536IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1537TYPE: onoff
1538DEFAULT: off
1539LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
1540IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1541DOC_START
1542 Normally the 'dnsserver' disables the RES_DEFNAMES resolver
1543 option (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
1544 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
1545 dnsserver to handle single-component names, enable this
1546 option.
1547DOC_END
1548
1549NAME: dns_nameservers
1550TYPE: wordlist
1551DEFAULT: none
1552LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
1553DOC_START
1554 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
1555 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
1556 /etc/resolv.conf file.
1557 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
1558 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
1559 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
1560 configurations are supported.
1561
1562 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
1563DOC_END
1564
1565NAME: hosts_file
1566TYPE: string
1567DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
1568LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
1569DOC_START
1570 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
1571 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7f7db318 1572 default locations:
cccac0a2 1573 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
1574 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
1575 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
1576 - Windows XP: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
1577 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
1578 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
1579 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
1580 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
1581
1582 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
1583 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
1584 whitespace-separated. Lines beginnng with an hash (#)
1585 character are comments.
1586
7f7db318 1587 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
cccac0a2 1588 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7f7db318 1589 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
cccac0a2 1590 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
1591 definitions.
1592DOC_END
1593
1594NAME: diskd_program
1595TYPE: string
1596DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
1597LOC: Config.Program.diskd
1598DOC_START
1599 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
7f7db318 1600 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
cccac0a2 1601 diskd as one of the store io modules.
1602DOC_END
1603
1604NAME: unlinkd_program
1605IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
1606TYPE: string
1607DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
1608LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
1609DOC_START
1610 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
1611DOC_END
1612
1613NAME: pinger_program
1614TYPE: string
1615DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
1616LOC: Config.Program.pinger
1617IFDEF: USE_ICMP
1618DOC_START
1619 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
1620DOC_END
1621
1622
1623NAME: redirect_program
1624TYPE: wordlist
1625LOC: Config.Program.redirect
1626DEFAULT: none
1627DOC_START
1628 Specify the location of the executable for the URL redirector.
1629 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
1630 See the FAQ (section 15) for information on how to write one.
1631 By default, a redirector is not used.
1632DOC_END
1633
1634
1635NAME: redirect_children
1636TYPE: int
1637DEFAULT: 5
1638LOC: Config.redirectChildren
1639DOC_START
1640 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
1641 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
1642 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
1643 and other system resources.
1644DOC_END
1645
1646NAME: redirect_concurrency
1647TYPE: int
1648DEFAULT: 0
1649LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
1650DOC_START
1651 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
7f7db318 1652 parallell. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
cccac0a2 1653 is a old-style singlethreaded redirector.
1654DOC_END
1655
1656NAME: redirect_rewrites_host_header
1657TYPE: onoff
1658DEFAULT: on
1659LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
1660DOC_START
1661 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
7f7db318 1662 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
cccac0a2 1663 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
1664
1665 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
1666 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
1667DOC_END
1668
1669NAME: redirector_access
1670TYPE: acl_access
1671DEFAULT: none
1672LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
1673DOC_START
1674 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
1675 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
1676 are sent.
1677DOC_END
1678
1679NAME: auth_param
1680TYPE: authparam
1681LOC: Config.authConfiguration
1682DEFAULT: none
1683DOC_START
1684 This is used to pass parameters to the various authentication
1685 schemes.
1686 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
7f7db318 1687
1688 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1689 would tell the basic authentication scheme it's program parameter.
1690
7f7db318 1691 The order authentication prompts are presented to the client_agent
cccac0a2 1692 is dependant on the order the scheme first appears in config file.
1693 IE has a bug (it's not rfc 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
1694 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure schemes
1695 are presented. For now use the order in the file below. If other browsers
1696 have difficulties (don't recognise the schemes offered even if you are using
7f7db318 1697 basic) either put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting
cccac0a2 1698 out their program entry).
1699
1700 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be shutdown
1701 by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on the fly and
1702 activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a different helper,
1703 but not unconfigure the helper completely.
1704
1705 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
7f7db318 1706
cccac0a2 1707 "program" cmdline
1708 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1709 program reads a line containing "username password" and replies
1710 "OK" or "ERR" in an endless loop. If you use an authenticator,
1711 make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth. By default, the
1712 basic authentication sheme is not used unless a program is specified.
1713
1714 If you want to use the traditional proxy authentication,
1715 jump over to the ../auth_modules/NCSA directory and
1716 type:
1717 % make
1718 % make install
1719
1720 Then, set this line to something like
1721
1722 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
1723
1724 "children" numberofchildren
1725 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1726 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1727 process a backlog of usercode/password verifications, slowing
1728 it down. When password verifications are done via a (slow)
1729 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1730 processes.
1731 auth_param basic children 5
1732
1733 "concurrency" concurrency
1734 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
1735 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
1736 one request at a time.
1737 auth_param basic concurrency 0
1738
1739 "realm" realmstring
1740 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1741 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
1742 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1743 password). There is no default.
1744 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1745
1746 "credentialsttl" timetolive
1747 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
1748 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
1749 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
1750 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
7f7db318 1751 setting this high does not impact your susceptability
cccac0a2 1752 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
1753 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
1754 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
1755 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
1756
64658378 1757 "casesensitive" on|off
1758 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
1759 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
1760 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
1761 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
1762 auth_param basic casesensitive off
1763
cccac0a2 1764 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
1765
1766 "program" cmdline
1767 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
1768 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
4c9fa5d5 1769 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value base64 encoded or
1770 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
1771 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
1772
1773 By default, the digest authentication is not used unless a
1774 program is specified.
1775
1776 If you want to use a digest authenticator, jump over to the
1777 helpers/digest_auth/ directory and choose the authenticator
1778 to use. In it's directory type
cccac0a2 1779 % make
1780 % make install
1781
1782 Then, set this line to something like
1783
1784 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
1785
1786
1787 "children" numberofchildren
1788 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1789 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1790 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
1791 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
1792 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
1793 auth_param digest children 5
1794
1795 "realm" realmstring
1796 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1797 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
1798 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1799 password). There is no default.
1800 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1801
1802 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
1803 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
1804 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
1805
1806 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
1807 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
1808 valid for.
1809
1810 "nonce_max_count" number
1811 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
1812 used.
1813
1814 "nonce_strictness" on|off
1815 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behaviour
1816 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
1817 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
1818 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
1819
1820 "check_nonce_count" on|off
1821 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
1822 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
1823 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
1824 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
1825
1826 "post_workaround" on|off
1827 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
1828 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
1829 the same nonce as aquired earlier on a GET request.
1830
1831
1832 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
1833
1834 "program" cmdline
1835 Specify the command for the external ntlm authenticator.
bdf7e1b4 1836 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
1837 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
cccac0a2 1838 If you use an ntlm authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
1839 of type proxy_auth. By default, the ntlm authenticator_program
1840 is not used.
1841
1842 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
1843
1844 "children" numberofchildren
1845 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1846 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1847 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
1848 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
1849 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1850 processes.
1851 auth_param ntlm children 5
1852
1853 "max_challenge_reuses" number
1854 The maximum number of times a challenge given by a ntlm
1855 authentication helper can be reused. Increasing this number
1856 increases your exposure to replay attacks on your network.
1857 0 means use the challenge only once. (disable challenge
1858 caching) See max_ntlm_challenge_lifetime for more information.
1859 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1860
1861 "max_challenge_lifetime" timespan
7f7db318 1862 The maximum time period a ntlm challenge is reused
cccac0a2 1863 over. The actual period will be the minimum of this time
1864 AND the number of reused challenges.
1865 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
1866
1867NOCOMMENT_START
94439e4e 1868#Recommended minimum configuration:
2d70df72 1869#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
1870#auth_param digest children 5
1871#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1872#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
1873#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
1874#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
94439e4e 1875#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
2d70df72 1876#auth_param ntlm children 5
1877#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1878#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
94439e4e 1879#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6b698a21 1880auth_param basic children 5
1881auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1882auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
1883NOCOMMENT_END
1884DOC_END
0976f8db 1885
6b698a21 1886NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
1887TYPE: time_t
1888DEFAULT: 1 hour
1889LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
1890DOC_START
1891 The time period between garbage collection across the
1892 username cache. This is a tradeoff between memory utilisation
1893 (long intervals - say 2 days) and CPU (short intervals -
1894 say 1 minute). Only change if you have good reason to.
1895DOC_END
0976f8db 1896
6b698a21 1897NAME: authenticate_ttl
1898TYPE: time_t
1899DEFAULT: 1 hour
1900LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
1901DOC_START
1902 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
1903 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
1904 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
1905 TTL are removed from memory.
1906DOC_END
0976f8db 1907
6b698a21 1908NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
1909TYPE: time_t
1910LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
1911DEFAULT: 0 seconds
1912DOC_START
1913 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
1914 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
1915 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
1916 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
1917 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
1918 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
1919 environment with relatively static address assignments.
1920DOC_END
0976f8db 1921
6b698a21 1922NAME: external_acl_type
1923TYPE: externalAclHelper
1924LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
1925DEFAULT: none
1926DOC_START
1927 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
1928 to look up the status
7f7db318 1929
6b698a21 1930 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
7f7db318 1931
6b698a21 1932 Options:
0976f8db 1933
6b698a21 1934 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
1935 for 1 hour)
1936 negative_ttl=n
1937 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
1938 as ttl)
1939 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
1940 external acl lookups of this type.
1941 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Use 0 for old style
1942 helpers who can only process a single request at a
1943 time.
1944 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
1945 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
1946 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
1947 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
dc1af3cf 1948 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
7f7db318 1949
6b698a21 1950 FORMAT specifications
1951
1952 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
1953 %IDENT Ident user name
1954 %SRC Client IP
1955 %SRCPORT Client source port
1956 %DST Requested host
1957 %PROTO Requested protocol
1958 %PORT Requested port
1959 %PATH Requested URL path
1960 %METHOD Request method
1961 %MYADDR Squid interface address
1962 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
1963 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate attribute xx
1964 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate CA attribute xx
1965 %{Header} HTTP request header
1966 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
1967 %{Hdr:;member}
1968 HTTP request header list member using ; as
1969 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
1970 character.
1971
1972 In addition, any string specified in the referencing acl will
1973 also be included in the helper request line, after the specified
1974 formats (see the "acl external" directive)
1975
1976 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
1977 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
1978 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
dc1af3cf 1979 more details. To protect from odd characters the data is URL
1980 escaped.
6b698a21 1981
1982 General result syntax:
7f7db318 1983
6b698a21 1984 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
0976f8db 1985
6b698a21 1986 Defined keywords:
0976f8db 1987
6b698a21 1988 user= The users name (login)
1989 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
1990 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
1991 in error pages
1992 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
1993 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
1994 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
1995 %ea in logformat specifications
0976f8db 1996
dc1af3cf 1997 Keyword values need to be URL escaped if they may contain
1998 contain whitespace or quotes.
1999
2000 In Squid-2.5 compatibility mode quoting using " and \ is used
2001 instead of URL escaping.
6b698a21 2002DOC_END
0976f8db 2003
6b698a21 2004COMMENT_START
2005 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2006 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2007COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2008
6b698a21 2009NAME: wais_relay_host
2010TYPE: string
2011DEFAULT: none
2012LOC: Config.Wais.relayHost
2013DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2014
6b698a21 2015NAME: wais_relay_port
2016TYPE: ushort
2017DEFAULT: 0
2018LOC: Config.Wais.relayPort
2019DOC_START
2020 Relay WAIS request to host (1st arg) at port (2 arg).
2021DOC_END
0976f8db 2022
0976f8db 2023
6b698a21 2024NAME: request_header_max_size
2025COMMENT: (KB)
2026TYPE: b_size_t
5b648f60 2027DEFAULT: 20 KB
6b698a21 2028LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2029DOC_START
2030 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2031 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2032 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2033 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2034 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2035DOC_END
0976f8db 2036
6b698a21 2037NAME: request_body_max_size
2038COMMENT: (KB)
2039TYPE: b_size_t
2040DEFAULT: 0 KB
2041LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2042DOC_START
2043 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2044 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2045 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2046 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2047 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2048 be no limit imposed.
2049DOC_END
0976f8db 2050
6b698a21 2051NAME: refresh_pattern
2052TYPE: refreshpattern
2053LOC: Config.Refresh
2054DEFAULT: none
2055DOC_START
2056 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
0976f8db 2057
6b698a21 2058 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2059 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
0976f8db 2060
6b698a21 2061 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2062 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2063 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2064 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2065 has taken the appropriate actions.
0976f8db 2066
6b698a21 2067 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2068 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2069 will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2070
6b698a21 2071 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2072 expiry time will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2073
6b698a21 2074 options: override-expire
2075 override-lastmod
2076 reload-into-ims
2077 ignore-reload
38f9c547 2078 ignore-no-cache
2079 ignore-no-store
2080 ignore-private
2081 ignore-auth
4c3ef9b2 2082 refresh-ims
0976f8db 2083
6b698a21 2084 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2085 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2086 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2087 for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2088
6b698a21 2089 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
7f7db318 2090 that were modified recently.
0976f8db 2091
6b698a21 2092 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2093 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2094 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2095 liable for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2096
6b698a21 2097 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2098 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2099 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2100 it causes.
7f7db318 2101
38f9c547 2102 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2103 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2104 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2105 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2106 send it anyway.
2107
2108 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2109 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2110 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2111 liable for problems which it causes.
2112
2113 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2114 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2115 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2116 liable for problems which it causes.
2117
2118 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2119 irrespective of ``Cache-control'' headers received from
2120 a server. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2121 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2122 it causes.
2123
4c3ef9b2 2124 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2125 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2126 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2127 if one is available.
2128
6b698a21 2129 Basically a cached object is:
0976f8db 2130
6b698a21 2131 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2132 STALE if age > max
2133 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2134 FRESH if age < min
2135 else STALE
0976f8db 2136
6b698a21 2137 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2138 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
7f7db318 2139 match the default will be used.
0976f8db 2140
6b698a21 2141 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2142 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2143 used.
0976f8db 2144
6b698a21 2145Suggested default:
2146NOCOMMENT_START
2147refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2148refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2149refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2150NOCOMMENT_END
2151DOC_END
0976f8db 2152
6b698a21 2153NAME: quick_abort_min
2154COMMENT: (KB)
2155TYPE: kb_size_t
2156DEFAULT: 16 KB
2157LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2158DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2159
6b698a21 2160NAME: quick_abort_max
2161COMMENT: (KB)
2162TYPE: kb_size_t
2163DEFAULT: 16 KB
2164LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2165DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2166
6b698a21 2167NAME: quick_abort_pct
2168COMMENT: (percent)
2169TYPE: int
2170DEFAULT: 95
2171LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2172DOC_START
2173 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2174 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2175 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2176 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2177 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2178 downloads.
0976f8db 2179
6b698a21 2180 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2181 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2182 then.
0976f8db 2183
6b698a21 2184 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2185 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2186
6b698a21 2187 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2188 it will abort the retrieval.
0976f8db 2189
6b698a21 2190 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2191 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2192
6b698a21 2193 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2194 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2195 to '0 KB'.
0976f8db 2196
6b698a21 2197 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
7f7db318 2198 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6b698a21 2199DOC_END
0976f8db 2200
6b698a21 2201NAME: read_ahead_gap
2202COMMENT: buffer-size
2203TYPE: kb_size_t
2204LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2205DEFAULT: 16 KB
2206DOC_START
2207 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2208 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2209DOC_END
0976f8db 2210
6b698a21 2211NAME: negative_ttl
2212COMMENT: time-units
2213TYPE: time_t
2214LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2215DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2216DOC_START
2217 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2218 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2219 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2220 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2221 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2222DOC_END
0976f8db 2223
0976f8db 2224
6b698a21 2225NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2226COMMENT: time-units
2227TYPE: time_t
2228LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2229DEFAULT: 6 hours
2230DOC_START
2231 Time-to-Live (TTL) for positive caching of successful DNS lookups.
2232 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). If you want to minimize the
2233 use of Squid's ipcache, set this to 1, not 0.
2234DOC_END
0976f8db 2235
0976f8db 2236
6b698a21 2237NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2238COMMENT: time-units
2239TYPE: time_t
2240LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2241DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2242DOC_START
2243 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2244DOC_END
0976f8db 2245
6b698a21 2246NAME: range_offset_limit
2247COMMENT: (bytes)
2248TYPE: b_size_t
2249LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2250DEFAULT: 0 KB
2251DOC_START
2252 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2253 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
7f7db318 2254 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
6b698a21 2255 is NOT cached.
0976f8db 2256
6b698a21 2257 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2258 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2259 sending anything to the client.
0976f8db 2260
6b698a21 2261 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
7f7db318 2262 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
0976f8db 2263
6b698a21 2264 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2265 client requested. (default)
2266DOC_END
0976f8db 2267
0976f8db 2268
6b698a21 2269COMMENT_START
2270 TIMEOUTS
2271 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2272COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2273
777831e0 2274NAME: forward_timeout
2275COMMENT: time-units
2276TYPE: time_t
2277LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
2278DEFAULT: 4 minutes
2279DOC_START
2280 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
2281 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
2282DOC_END
2283
6b698a21 2284NAME: connect_timeout
2285COMMENT: time-units
2286TYPE: time_t
2287LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
777831e0 2288DEFAULT: 1 minute
6b698a21 2289DOC_START
777831e0 2290 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
2291 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
2292 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
6b698a21 2293DOC_END
0976f8db 2294
6b698a21 2295NAME: peer_connect_timeout
2296COMMENT: time-units
2297TYPE: time_t
2298LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
2299DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2300DOC_START
2301 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
2302 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
2303 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
2304 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
2305DOC_END
0976f8db 2306
6b698a21 2307NAME: read_timeout
2308COMMENT: time-units
2309TYPE: time_t
2310LOC: Config.Timeout.read
2311DEFAULT: 15 minutes
2312DOC_START
2313 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
2314 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
2315 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
2316 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
2317 default is 15 minutes.
2318DOC_END
0976f8db 2319
0976f8db 2320
6b698a21 2321NAME: request_timeout
2322TYPE: time_t
2323LOC: Config.Timeout.request
2324DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2325DOC_START
2326 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
2327 connection establishment.
2328DOC_END
0976f8db 2329
0976f8db 2330
6b698a21 2331NAME: persistent_request_timeout
2332TYPE: time_t
2333LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
2334DEFAULT: 1 minute
2335DOC_START
2336 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
2337 connection after the previous request completes.
2338DOC_END
0976f8db 2339
0976f8db 2340
6b698a21 2341NAME: client_lifetime
2342COMMENT: time-units
2343TYPE: time_t
2344LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
2345DEFAULT: 1 day
2346DOC_START
7f7db318 2347 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6b698a21 2348 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
2349 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
2350 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
2351 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
2352 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
2353 day, 1440 minutes.
2354
2355 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
2356 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
2357 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
2358 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
2359 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
2360 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
2361DOC_END
2362
2363NAME: half_closed_clients
2364TYPE: onoff
2365LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
2366DEFAULT: on
2367DOC_START
2368 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
2369 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
2370 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
2371 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
2372 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
2373 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
2374 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
2375 "no more data to read."
2376DOC_END
0976f8db 2377
6b698a21 2378NAME: pconn_timeout
2379TYPE: time_t
2380LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
2381DEFAULT: 120 seconds
2382DOC_START
2383 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
2384 proxies.
2385DOC_END
0976f8db 2386
6b698a21 2387NAME: ident_timeout
2388TYPE: time_t
2389IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2390LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
2391DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2392DOC_START
2393 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
7f7db318 2394
6b698a21 2395 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7f7db318 2396 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6b698a21 2397 many ident requests going at once.
2398DOC_END
0976f8db 2399
0976f8db 2400
6b698a21 2401NAME: shutdown_lifetime
2402COMMENT: time-units
2403TYPE: time_t
2404LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
2405DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2406DOC_START
2407 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
2408 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
2409 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
2410 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
2411 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
2412DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2413
6b698a21 2414COMMENT_START
2415 ACCESS CONTROLS
2416 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2417COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 2418
6b698a21 2419NAME: acl
2420TYPE: acl
2421LOC: Config.aclList
2422DEFAULT: none
2423DOC_START
2424 Defining an Access List
9e7dbc51 2425
6b698a21 2426 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
2427 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
9e7dbc51 2428
6b698a21 2429 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
9e7dbc51 2430
6b698a21 2431 acltype is one of the types described below
9e7dbc51 2432
6b698a21 2433 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2434 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2435
6b698a21 2436 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
2437 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
2438 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
2439 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
9e7dbc51 2440
6b698a21 2441 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
2442 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
2443 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
2444 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
9e7dbc51 2445 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
2446 # based URL is used. The name "none" is used if the reverse lookup
2447 # fails.
2448
6b698a21 2449 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
2450 day-abbrevs:
2451 S - Sunday
2452 M - Monday
2453 T - Tuesday
2454 W - Wednesday
2455 H - Thursday
2456 F - Friday
2457 A - Saturday
2458 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
2459 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
2460 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
2461 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
2462 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
2463 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
2464 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
2465 acl aclname method GET POST ...
2466 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
2467 # pattern match on User-Agent header
2468 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
2469 # pattern match on Referer header
9e7dbc51 2470 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
6b698a21 2471 acl aclname ident username ...
2472 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
2473 # string match on ident output.
9e7dbc51 2474 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
6b698a21 2475 acl aclname src_as number ...
2476 acl aclname dst_as number ...
2477 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
9e7dbc51 2478 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
2479 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
6468fe10 2480 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
2481 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
d87ebd78 2482 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
2483 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
6468fe10 2484
6b698a21 2485 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
2486 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
2487 # list of valid usernames
c68e9c6b 2488 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
73e67ee0 2489 #
2490 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
2491 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
2492 # in access.log.
c68e9c6b 2493 #
2494 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
2495 # to check username/password combinations (see
f7d2a450 2496 # auth_param directive).
c68e9c6b 2497 #
d048c262 2498 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
2499 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
2500 # to respond to proxy authentication.
934b03fc 2501
6b698a21 2502 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
2503 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
dba79ac5 2504 # Example:
96d88dcb 2505 #
dba79ac5 2506 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
2507
6b698a21 2508 acl aclname maxconn number
2509 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
9bc73deb 2510 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
2511
6b698a21 2512 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
2513 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
c23e89cd 2514 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
60d096f4 2515 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
7f7db318 2516 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
be5caa55 2517 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
c23e89cd 2518 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
7f7db318 2519 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
be5caa55 2520 # request is denied)
2521 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
c23e89cd 2522 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
be5caa55 2523 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
60d096f4 2524
cccac0a2 2525 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2526 # regex match agains the mime type of the request generated
ba2b31a8 2527 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
2528 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2529 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
2530 # to match the returned file type.
c68e9c6b 2531
cccac0a2 2532 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2533 # regex match against the mime type of the reply recieved by
c4ab8329 2534 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
2535 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2536 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
2537 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
2538 # http_reply_access.
2539
cccac0a2 2540 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
2541 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
d9572179 2542 # external_acl_type directive.
c4ab8329 2543
cccac0a2 2544 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
2545 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2546 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2547
cccac0a2 2548 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
2549 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2550 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2551
cccac0a2 2552 acl aclname ext_user username ...
2553 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
2554 # string match on username returned by external acl processing
d95b862f 2555 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
2556
cccac0a2 2557Examples:
2558acl myexample dst_as 1241
2559acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
2560acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
2561acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
c68e9c6b 2562
cccac0a2 2563NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2564#Recommended minimum configuration:
cccac0a2 2565acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
2566acl manager proto cache_object
2567acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
2568acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
2569acl SSL_ports port 443 563
2570acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
2571acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
2572acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
2573acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
2574acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
2575acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
2576acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
2577acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
2578acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
2579acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
2580acl CONNECT method CONNECT
2581NOCOMMENT_END
2582DOC_END
2583
2584NAME: http_access
2585TYPE: acl_access
2586LOC: Config.accessList.http
2587DEFAULT: none
2588DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2589DOC_START
2590 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
2591
2592 Access to the HTTP port:
2593 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2594
2595 NOTE on default values:
2596
2597 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
2598 the request.
2599
2600 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
2601 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
7f7db318 2602 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
cccac0a2 2603 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
2604 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
2605 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
2606
2607NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2608#Recommended minimum configuration:
2609#
2610# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
cccac0a2 2611http_access allow manager localhost
2612http_access deny manager
6b53c392 2613# Deny requests to unknown ports
cccac0a2 2614http_access deny !Safe_ports
6b53c392 2615# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
cccac0a2 2616http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
c68e9c6b 2617#
7f7db318 2618# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
2619# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
4cc6eb12 2620# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
2621#http_access deny to_localhost
c68e9c6b 2622#
4cc6eb12 2623# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
2624
59f4a63e 2625# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
b9d7fe3e 2626# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
2627# be allowed
2628#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
2629#http_access allow our_networks
2630
6b53c392 2631# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
cccac0a2 2632http_access deny all
2633NOCOMMENT_END
2634DOC_END
c4ab8329 2635
cccac0a2 2636NAME: http_reply_access
2637TYPE: acl_access
2638LOC: Config.accessList.reply
2639DEFAULT: none
2640DEFAULT_IF_NONE: allow all
2641DOC_START
2642 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
c4ab8329 2643
cccac0a2 2644 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
0976f8db 2645
cccac0a2 2646 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
2647 all replies
0976f8db 2648
7f7db318 2649 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
cccac0a2 2650 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
2651 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
0976f8db 2652
cccac0a2 2653NOCOMMENT_START
c4ab8329 2654#Recommended minimum configuration:
2655#
2656# Insert your own rules here.
2657#
2658#
2659# and finally allow by default
cccac0a2 2660http_reply_access allow all
2661NOCOMMENT_END
2662DOC_END
6b53c392 2663
6b53c392 2664
cccac0a2 2665NAME: icp_access
2666TYPE: acl_access
2667LOC: Config.accessList.icp
2668DEFAULT: none
2669DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2670DOC_START
2671 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
2672 access lists
934b03fc 2673
cccac0a2 2674 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2675
cccac0a2 2676 See http_access for details
0976f8db 2677
cccac0a2 2678NOCOMMENT_START
403b5e7b 2679#Allow ICP queries from everyone
cccac0a2 2680icp_access allow all
2681NOCOMMENT_END
2682DOC_END
934b03fc 2683
2684
cccac0a2 2685NAME: miss_access
2686TYPE: acl_access
2687LOC: Config.accessList.miss
2688DEFAULT: none
2689DOC_START
2690 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2691 a parent. For example:
934b03fc 2692
cccac0a2 2693 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
2694 miss_access allow localclients
2695 miss_access deny !localclients
934b03fc 2696
7f7db318 2697 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
cccac0a2 2698 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
934b03fc 2699
cccac0a2 2700 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
2701 to fetch MISSES from us.
6b53c392 2702
cccac0a2 2703NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2704#Default setting:
2705# miss_access allow all
cccac0a2 2706NOCOMMENT_END
2707DOC_END
2708
2709
2710NAME: cache_peer_access
2711TYPE: peer_access
2712DEFAULT: none
2713LOC: none
2714DOC_START
2715 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2716 using ACL elements.
2717
2718 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2719
2720 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2721 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2722 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
2723DOC_END
2724
2725NAME: ident_lookup_access
2726TYPE: acl_access
2727IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2728DEFAULT: none
2729DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2730LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
2731DOC_START
2732 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2733 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2734 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2735 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2736 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2737 any requests.
2738
2739 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2740 can follow this example:
2741
2742 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
2743 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2744 ident_lookup_access deny all
2745
2746 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
2747 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2748 the correct result.
2749DOC_END
2750
2751NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2752TYPE: acl_tos
2753DEFAULT: none
2754LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
2755DOC_START
2756 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
2757 connections with, based on the username or source address
2758 making the request.
2759
2760 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2761
2762 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2763 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
2764
2765 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2766 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2767 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
2768 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2769
2770 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
2771 know what you're specifying. For more, see RFC 2474
2772
2773 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a byte, value 0 - 255, or
2774 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2775
2776 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2777 matching line.
2778DOC_END
2779
2780NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2781TYPE: acl_address
2782DEFAULT: none
2783LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2784DOC_START
2785 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2786 based on the username or sourceaddress of the user making
2787 the request.
7f7db318 2788
cccac0a2 2789 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
2790
2791 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwareded
7f7db318 2792 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
cccac0a2 2793 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
2794 source address 10.1.0.3.
2795
2796 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2797 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2798 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
2799 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
2800 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
2801
2802 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2803 matching line.
2804DOC_END
2805
4eb368f9 2806NAME: reply_header_max_size
2807COMMENT: (KB)
2808TYPE: b_size_t
2809DEFAULT: 20 KB
2810LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
2811DOC_START
2812 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
2813 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2814 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
2815 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2816 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2817DOC_END
2818
cccac0a2 2819NAME: reply_body_max_size
2820COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
2821TYPE: acl_b_size_t
2822DEFAULT: none
2823LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2824DOC_START
2825 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
2826 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
2827 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are recieved, the
2828 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
2829 all (if any) listed acls are true is used as the maximum body size
2830 for this reply.
2831
7f7db318 2832 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
cccac0a2 2833 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2834 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2835 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2836 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2837 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2838 and they will receive a partial reply.
2839
2840 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2841 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2842 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2843 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2844
2845 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2846 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2847 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2848 the size of your largest error page.
2849
2850 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2851 no limit imposed.
2852DOC_END
2853
2854NAME: log_access
2855TYPE: acl_access
2856LOC: Config.accessList.log
2857DEFAULT: none
2858COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2859DOC_START
2860 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2861 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2862 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2863DOC_END
0976f8db 2864
cccac0a2 2865COMMENT_START
2866 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
2867 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2868COMMENT_END
2869
2870NAME: cache_mgr
2871TYPE: string
2872DEFAULT: webmaster
2873LOC: Config.adminEmail
2874DOC_START
2875 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
2876 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
2877DOC_END
2878
2879
2880NAME: cache_effective_user
2881TYPE: string
2882DEFAULT: nobody
2883LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 2884DOC_START
2885 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
2886 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
2887 to UID to nobody. If you define cache_effective_user, but not
2888 cache_effective_group, Squid sets the GID to the effective
2889 user's default group ID (taken from the password file) and
2890 supplementary group list from the from groups membership of
2891 cache_effective_user.
2892DOC_END
2893
cccac0a2 2894
2895NAME: cache_effective_group
2896TYPE: string
2897DEFAULT: none
2898LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
2899DOC_START
e3d74828 2900 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
2901 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
2902 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
2903 all other group privileges of the effective user is ignored
2904 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
2905 root the user starting Squid must be member of the specified
2906 group.
cccac0a2 2907DOC_END
2908
2909
2910NAME: visible_hostname
2911TYPE: string
2912LOC: Config.visibleHostname
2913DEFAULT: none
2914DOC_START
2915 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 2916 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 2917 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
2918 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
2919 names with this setting.
2920DOC_END
2921
2922
2923NAME: unique_hostname
2924TYPE: string
2925LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
2926DEFAULT: none
2927DOC_START
2928 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 2929 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
2930 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 2931DOC_END
2932
2933
2934NAME: hostname_aliases
2935TYPE: wordlist
2936LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
2937DEFAULT: none
2938DOC_START
7f7db318 2939 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 2940DOC_END
0976f8db 2941
cccac0a2 2942COMMENT_START
2943 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
2944 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2945
2946 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
2947 announcement service. This service is provided to help
2948 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
2949 create cache hierarchies.
2950
2951 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
2952 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
2953 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
2954
2955 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
2956 following information from this configuration file:
2957
2958 http_port
2959 icp_port
2960 cache_mgr
2961
2962 All current information is processed regularly and made
2963 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
2964COMMENT_END
2965
2966NAME: announce_period
2967TYPE: time_t
2968LOC: Config.Announce.period
2969DEFAULT: 0
2970DOC_START
2971 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
2972 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
2973 messages.
2974
2975 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
2976 below.
2977
2978NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 2979#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
2980#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 2981NOCOMMENT_END
2982DOC_END
2983
2984
2985NAME: announce_host
2986TYPE: string
2987DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
2988LOC: Config.Announce.host
2989DOC_NONE
2990
2991NAME: announce_file
2992TYPE: string
2993DEFAULT: none
2994LOC: Config.Announce.file
2995DOC_NONE
2996
2997NAME: announce_port
2998TYPE: ushort
2999DEFAULT: 3131
3000LOC: Config.Announce.port
3001DOC_START
3002 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3003 number where the registration message will be sent.
3004
3005 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3006 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3007 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3008 message.
3009DOC_END
3010
3011NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
3012IFDEF: ESI
3013TYPE: string
3014LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3015DEFAULT: unset-id
3016DOC_START
3017 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3018 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3019 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3020 an identification token.
3021DOC_END
3022
3023NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
3024IFDEF: ESI
3025COMMENT: on|off
3026TYPE: onoff
3027DEFAULT: off
3028LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3029DOC_START
3030 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3031 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3032DOC_END
3033
3034NAME: esi_parser
3035IFDEF: ESI
964b44c3 3036COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3037TYPE: string
3038LOC: ESIParser::Type
3039DEFAULT: custom
3040DOC_START
3041 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3042 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3043 encodings.
3044DOC_END
0976f8db 3045
cccac0a2 3046COMMENT_START
3047 MISCELLANEOUS
3048 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3049COMMENT_END
3050
3051NAME: dns_testnames
3052TYPE: wordlist
3053LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
3054DEFAULT: none
3055DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
3056DOC_START
3057 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
3058
3059 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
3060DOC_END
3061
3062
3063NAME: logfile_rotate
3064TYPE: int
3065DEFAULT: 10
3066LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3067DOC_START
3068 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3069 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3070 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3071 disable the rotation, but the logfiles are still closed and
3072 re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3073 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3074
3075 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3076 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3077 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3078 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3079 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3080 <pid>'.
3081DOC_END
3082
3083
3084NAME: append_domain
3085TYPE: string
3086LOC: Config.appendDomain
3087DEFAULT: none
3088DOC_START
3089 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
3090 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
3091
7f7db318 3092 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
cccac0a2 3093 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
3094 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
3095
3096Example:
3097 append_domain .yourdomain.com
3098DOC_END
3099
3100
3101NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
3102COMMENT: (bytes)
3103TYPE: b_size_t
3104DEFAULT: 0 bytes
3105LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
3106DOC_START
3107 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
3108 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
3109 the default buffer size.
3110DOC_END
3111
3112NAME: err_html_text
3113TYPE: eol
3114LOC: Config.errHtmlText
3115DEFAULT: none
3116DOC_START
3117 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
3118 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
3119 organizations Web page.
3120
3121 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
3122 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
3123 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
3124 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
3125DOC_END
3126
3127NAME: email_err_data
3128COMMENT: on|off
3129TYPE: onoff
3130LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
3131DEFAULT: on
3132DOC_START
3133 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
3134 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7f7db318 3135 so that the email body contains the data.
cccac0a2 3136 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
3137DOC_END
3138
3139
3140NAME: deny_info
3141TYPE: denyinfo
3142LOC: Config.denyInfoList
3143DEFAULT: none
3144DOC_START
3145 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
3146 or deny_info http://... acl
3147 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
3148
3149 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
3150 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. A single ACL will cause
3151 the http_access check to fail. If a 'deny_info' line exists
7f7db318 3152 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
cccac0a2 3153
3154 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
3155 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
3156
7f7db318 3157 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
cccac0a2 3158 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
3159 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
3160
3161 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
3162 by specifying TCP_RESET.
3163DOC_END
3164
3165NAME: memory_pools
3166COMMENT: on|off
3167TYPE: onoff
3168DEFAULT: on
3169LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
3170DOC_START
3171 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
3172 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
3173 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
3174 routines, disable this.
3175DOC_END
3176
3177NAME: memory_pools_limit
3178COMMENT: (bytes)
3179TYPE: b_size_t
e838cf2f 3180DEFAULT: 5 MB
cccac0a2 3181LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
3182DOC_START
3183 Used only with memory_pools on:
3184 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
3185
3186 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
3187 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
3188 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
3189 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
3190 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
3191 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
3192 configuration will use less memory.
3193
7e7e02e1 3194 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
3195 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
cccac0a2 3196
3197 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
3198 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
3199
3200 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
3201 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
3202 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
3203 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
3204DOC_END
3205
3206NAME: via
3207IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3208COMMENT: on|off
3209TYPE: onoff
3210DEFAULT: on
3211LOC: Config.onoff.via
3212DOC_START
3213 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3214 replies as required by RFC2616.
3215DOC_END
3216
3217NAME: forwarded_for
3218COMMENT: on|off
3219TYPE: onoff
3220DEFAULT: on
3221LOC: opt_forwarded_for
3222DOC_START
3223 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
3224 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
3225 this:
3226
3227 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
3228
3229 If you disable this, it will appear as
3230
3231 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
3232DOC_END
3233
3234NAME: log_icp_queries
3235COMMENT: on|off
3236TYPE: onoff
3237DEFAULT: on
3238LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
3239DOC_START
3240 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
3241 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
3242 up or to simplify log analysis.
3243DOC_END
3244
3245NAME: icp_hit_stale
3246COMMENT: on|off
3247TYPE: onoff
3248DEFAULT: off
3249LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
3250DOC_START
3251 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
3252 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
3253 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7f7db318 3254 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
cccac0a2 3255 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7f7db318 3256 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
cccac0a2 3257 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
3258DOC_END
3259
3260
3261NAME: minimum_direct_hops
3262TYPE: int
3263DEFAULT: 4
3264LOC: Config.minDirectHops
3265DOC_START
3266 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3267 which are no more than this many hops away.
3268DOC_END
3269
3270NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
3271TYPE: int
3272DEFAULT: 400
3273LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
3274DOC_START
3275 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3276 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
3277DOC_END
3278
3279NAME: cachemgr_passwd
3280TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
3281DEFAULT: none
3282LOC: Config.passwd_list
3283DOC_START
3284 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
3285
3286 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
3287
3288 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
3289 5min
3290 60min
3291 asndb
3292 authenticator
3293 cbdata
3294 client_list
3295 comm_incoming
3296 config *
3297 counters
3298 delay
3299 digest_stats
3300 dns
3301 events
3302 filedescriptors
3303 fqdncache
3304 histograms
3305 http_headers
3306 info
3307 io
3308 ipcache
3309 mem
3310 menu
3311 netdb
3312 non_peers
3313 objects
3314 offline_toggle *
3315 pconn
3316 peer_select
3317 redirector
3318 refresh
3319 server_list
3320 shutdown *
3321 store_digest
3322 storedir
3323 utilization
3324 via_headers
3325 vm_objects
3326
3327 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
3328 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
3329
3330 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
3331 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
3332 password to "none".
3333
3334 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
3335
3336Example:
3337 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
3338 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
3339 cachemgr_passwd disable all
3340DOC_END
3341
3342NAME: store_avg_object_size
3343COMMENT: (kbytes)
3344TYPE: kb_size_t
3345DEFAULT: 13 KB
3346LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3347DOC_START
3348 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3349 cache can hold. See doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt. The default is
3350 13 KB.
3351DOC_END
3352
3353NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3354TYPE: int
3355DEFAULT: 20
3356LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3357DOC_START
3358 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3359 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
c8f4eac4 3360 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
cccac0a2 3361DOC_END
3362
3363NAME: client_db
3364COMMENT: on|off
3365TYPE: onoff
3366DEFAULT: on
3367LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
3368DOC_START
7f7db318 3369 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
cccac0a2 3370 turn off client_db here.
3371DOC_END
3372
3373
3374NAME: netdb_low
3375TYPE: int
3376DEFAULT: 900
3377LOC: Config.Netdb.low
3378DOC_NONE
3379
3380NAME: netdb_high
3381TYPE: int
3382DEFAULT: 1000
3383LOC: Config.Netdb.high
3384DOC_START
3385 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
3386 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
3387 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
3388 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
3389DOC_END
3390
3391
3392NAME: netdb_ping_period
3393TYPE: time_t
3394LOC: Config.Netdb.period
3395DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3396DOC_START
3397 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
3398 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
3399 network. The default is five minutes.
3400DOC_END
3401
3402
3403NAME: query_icmp
3404COMMENT: on|off
3405TYPE: onoff
3406DEFAULT: off
3407LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
3408DOC_START
3409 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
3410 replies, enable this option.
3411
3412 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 3413 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
3414 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 3415 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
3416 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
3417 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
3418 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
3419 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
3420DOC_END
3421
3422NAME: test_reachability
3423COMMENT: on|off
3424TYPE: onoff
3425DEFAULT: off
3426LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
3427DOC_START
3428 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
3429 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
3430 database, or has a zero RTT.
3431DOC_END
3432
3433NAME: buffered_logs
3434COMMENT: on|off
3435TYPE: onoff
3436DEFAULT: off
3437LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3438DOC_START
3439 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3440 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3441 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3442 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3443 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3444DOC_END
3445
4c3ef9b2 3446NAME: refresh_all_ims
3447COMMENT: on|off
3448TYPE: onoff
3449DEFAULT: off
3450LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
3451DOC_START
3452 When you enable this option, squid will always check
3453 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
3454 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
3455 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
3456 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
3457
3458 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
3459 based on the age of the cached version.
3460DOC_END
3461
cccac0a2 3462NAME: reload_into_ims
3463IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3464COMMENT: on|off
3465TYPE: onoff
3466DEFAULT: off
3467LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
3468DOC_START
3469 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
3470 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
3471 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
3472 feature could make you liable for problems which it
3473 causes.
7f7db318 3474
cccac0a2 3475 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
3476DOC_END
3477
3478NAME: always_direct
3479TYPE: acl_access
3480LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
3481DEFAULT: none
3482DOC_START
3483 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3484
3485 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
3486 ALWAYS be forwarded directly to origin servers. For example,
3487 to always directly forward requests for local servers use
3488 something like:
3489
3490 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
3491 always_direct allow local-servers
3492
3493 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
3494
3495 acl FTP proto FTP
3496 always_direct allow FTP
3497
3498 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
3499 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
3500 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
3501 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
3502 some other rule. Example:
3503
3504 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3505 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3506 always_direct deny local-external
3507 always_direct allow local-servers
3508
3509 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
3510 and local_ip.
3511DOC_END
3512
3513NAME: never_direct
3514TYPE: acl_access
3515LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
3516DEFAULT: none
3517DOC_START
3518 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3519
3520 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
3521 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
3522
3523 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
3524 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
3525 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
3526 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
3527
3528 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3529 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
3530 never_direct deny local-servers
3531 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3532
3533 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
f939c0ca 3534 servers inside the firewall use something like:
cccac0a2 3535
3536 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
3537 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3538 always_direct deny local-external
3539 always_direct allow local-intranet
3540 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3541
cccac0a2 3542 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
3543 and firewall_ip.
3544DOC_END
3545
8c01ada0 3546NAME: request_header_access
cccac0a2 3547IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3548TYPE: http_header_access[]
8c01ada0 3549LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3550DEFAULT: none
3551DOC_START
8c01ada0 3552 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 3553
3554 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3555 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3556 causes.
3557
3558 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3559 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3560 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3561 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3562 mangling.
3563
8c01ada0 3564 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3565 client to the server.
3566
cccac0a2 3567 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3568 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3569 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3570
3571 For example, to achieve the same behaviour as the old
3572 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3573
8c01ada0 3574 request_header_access From deny all
3575 request_header_access Referer deny all
3576 request_header_access Server deny all
3577 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3578 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3579 request_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3580
3581 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3582 you should use:
3583
8c01ada0 3584 request_header_access Allow allow all
3585 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3586 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3587 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3588 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3589 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3590 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3591 request_header_access Date allow all
3592 request_header_access Expires allow all
3593 request_header_access Host allow all
3594 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3595 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3596 request_header_access Location allow all
3597 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3598 request_header_access Accept allow all
3599 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3600 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3601 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3602 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3603 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3604 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3605 request_header_access Title allow all
3606 request_header_access Connection allow all
3607 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3608 request_header_access All deny all
3609
3610 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3611 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
3612
3613 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3614 performed).
3615DOC_END
3616
3617NAME: reply_header_access
3618IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3619TYPE: http_header_access[]
3620LOC: Config.reply_header_access
3621DEFAULT: none
3622DOC_START
3623 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3624
3625 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3626 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3627 causes.
3628
3629 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3630 server to the client.
3631
3632 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3633 direction.
3634
3635 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3636 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3637 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3638 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3639 mangling.
3640
3641 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3642 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3643 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3644
3645 For example, to achieve the same behaviour as the old
3646 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3647
3648 reply_header_access From deny all
3649 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3650 reply_header_access Server deny all
3651 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3652 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3653 reply_header_access Link deny all
3654
3655 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3656 you should use:
3657
3658 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3659 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3660 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3661 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3662 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3663 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3664 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3665 reply_header_access Date allow all
3666 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3667 reply_header_access Host allow all
3668 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3669 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3670 reply_header_access Location allow all
3671 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3672 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3673 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3674 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3675 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3676 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3677 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3678 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3679 reply_header_access Title allow all
3680 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3681 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3682 reply_header_access All deny all
3683
3684 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3685 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3686
3687 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3688 performed).
3689DOC_END
3690
3691NAME: header_replace
3692IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3693TYPE: http_header_replace[]
8c01ada0 3694LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3695DEFAULT: none
3696DOC_START
3697 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3698 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
3699
3700 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3701 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3702 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3703 option.
3704
8c01ada0 3705 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
3706
cccac0a2 3707 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3708DOC_END
3709
3710NAME: icon_directory
3711TYPE: string
3712LOC: Config.icons.directory
3713DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3714DOC_START
3715 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
3716 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3717DOC_END
3718
e72a0ec0 3719NAME: short_icon_urls
3720TYPE: onoff
3721LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
3722DEFAULT: on
3723DOC_START
7f7db318 3724 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
e72a0ec0 3725 If disabled it will revert to the old behaviour of including
3726 it's own name and port in the URL.
3727
3728 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7f7db318 3729 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
e72a0ec0 3730DOC_END
3731
cccac0a2 3732NAME: error_directory
3733TYPE: string
3734LOC: Config.errorDirectory
3735DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
3736DOC_START
3737 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
3738 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
3739 language or company copy the template English files to another
3740 directory and point this tag at them.
3741DOC_END
3742
3743NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
3744TYPE: int
3745LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
4ed0e075 3746DEFAULT: 1
cccac0a2 3747DOC_START
3748 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
3749 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
3750 each address is tried once).
3751
4ed0e075 3752 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
cccac0a2 3753 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
3754 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
4ed0e075 3755
3756 Note: This is in addition to the request reforwarding which
3757 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
cccac0a2 3758DOC_END
3759
3760NAME: snmp_port
3761TYPE: ushort
3762LOC: Config.Port.snmp
3763DEFAULT: 3401
3764IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3765DOC_START
3766 Squid can now serve statistics and status information via SNMP.
3767 By default it listens to port 3401 on the machine. If you don't
3768 wish to use SNMP, set this to "0".
4ed0e075 3769
7f7db318 3770 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4ed0e075 3771 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
3772 acts on cachable requests.
cccac0a2 3773DOC_END
3774
3775NAME: snmp_access
3776TYPE: acl_access
3777LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
3778DEFAULT: none
3779DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3780IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3781DOC_START
3782 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
3783
3784 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3785 usage:
3786
3787 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3788
3789Example:
3790 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3791 snmp_access deny all
3792DOC_END
3793
3794NAME: snmp_incoming_address
3795TYPE: address
3796LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
3797DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3798IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3799DOC_NONE
3800NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
3801TYPE: address
3802LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
3803DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3804IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3805DOC_START
3806 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
3807
3808 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
3809 messages from SNMP agents.
3810 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
3811 agents.
3812
3813 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
3814 available network interfaces.
3815
3816 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 3817 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 3818 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
3819 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
3820
3821 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
3822 the same value since they both use port 3401.
3823DOC_END
3824
3825NAME: as_whois_server
3826TYPE: string
3827LOC: Config.as_whois_server
3828DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
3829DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
3830DOC_START
3831 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
3832 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
3833DOC_END
3834
3835NAME: wccp_router
3836TYPE: address
3837LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3838DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3839IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3840DOC_START
3841 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3842 Squid. Setting the 'wccp_router' to 0.0.0.0 (the default)
3843 disables WCCP.
3844DOC_END
3845
3846NAME: wccp_version
3847TYPE: int
3848LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3849DEFAULT: 4
3850IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3851DOC_START
3852 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 only supports WCCP
3853 version 3. If you're using that version of IOS, change
3854 this value to 3.
3855DOC_END
3856
3857NAME: wccp_incoming_address
3858TYPE: address
3859LOC: Config.Wccp.incoming
3860DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3861IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3862DOC_NONE
3863NAME: wccp_outgoing_address
3864TYPE: address
3865LOC: Config.Wccp.outgoing
3866DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3867IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3868DOC_START
3869 wccp_incoming_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3870 messages to be received on only one
3871 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3872 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3873 have, or if you know you have only one
3874 interface.
3875
3876 wccp_outgoing_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3877 messages to be sent out on only one
3878 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3879 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3880 have, or if you know you have only one
3881 interface.
3882
3883 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
3884
3885 NOTE, wccp_incoming_address and wccp_outgoing_address can not have
3886 the same value since they both use port 2048.
3887DOC_END
0976f8db 3888
0976f8db 3889
cccac0a2 3890COMMENT_START
3891 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS (all require DELAY_POOLS compilation option)
3892 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3893COMMENT_END
3894
3895NAME: delay_pools
3896TYPE: delay_pool_count
3897DEFAULT: 0
3898IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3899LOC: Config.Delay
3900DOC_START
3901 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3902 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3903 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3904DOC_END
3905
3906NAME: delay_class
3907TYPE: delay_pool_class
3908DEFAULT: none
3909IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3910LOC: Config.Delay
3911DOC_START
3912 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3913 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3914 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3915 and here would be:
3916
3917Example:
3918 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3919 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3920 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3921 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3922 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3923
3924 The delay pool classes are:
3925
3926 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3927 bucket.
3928
3929 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3930 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3931 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3932
3933 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3934 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3935 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3936 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3937 32 of the IP address.
7f7db318 3938
3939 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
cccac0a2 3940 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3941 only takes effect if the username is established
3942 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3943 http_access rules.
3944
7f7db318 3945 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
cccac0a2 3946 external_acl's tag= reply).
3947
3948 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3949 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3950 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3951 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3952DOC_END
3953
3954NAME: delay_access
3955TYPE: delay_pool_access
3956DEFAULT: none
3957IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3958LOC: Config.Delay
3959DOC_START
3960 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3961 The first matched delay pool is always used, i.e., if a request falls
3962 into delay pool number one, no more delay are checked, otherwise the
3963 rest are checked in order of their delay pool number until they have
3964 all been checked. For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3965 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3966
3967Example:
3968 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3969 delay_access 1 deny all
3970 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3971 delay_access 2 deny all
3972 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3973DOC_END
3974
3975NAME: delay_parameters
3976TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3977DEFAULT: none
3978IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3979LOC: Config.Delay
3980DOC_START
3981 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3982 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3983 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3984
3985delay_parameters pool aggregate
3986
3987 For a class 2 delay pool:
3988
3989delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3990
3991 For a class 3 delay pool:
3992
3993delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3994
3995 For a class 4 delay pool:
3996
3997delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3998
3999 For a class 5 delay pool:
4000
4001delay_parameters pool tag
4002
4003 The variables here are:
4004
4005 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4006 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4007 delay_class lines.
4008
4009 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4010 (class 1, 2, 3).
4011
4012 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4013 buckets (class 2, 3).
4014
4015 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4016 (class 3).
4017
4018 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4019 (class 4).
4020
4021 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4022 (class 5).
4023
4024 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4025 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4026 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4027 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4028
4029 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4030 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4031 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4032
4033delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4034
4035 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4036
4037 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4038 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4039 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4040 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4041 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4042 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4043 large downloads more significantly:
4044
4045delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4046
4047 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4048
4049 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4050 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
7f7db318 4051
cccac0a2 4052delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4053DOC_END
4054
4055NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4056COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4057TYPE: ushort
4058DEFAULT: 50
4059IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4060LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4061DOC_START
4062 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4063 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4064 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4065 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4066 "seen" by squid).
4067DOC_END
4068
4069NAME: incoming_icp_average
4070TYPE: int
4071DEFAULT: 6
4072LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4073DOC_NONE
4074
4075NAME: incoming_http_average
4076TYPE: int
4077DEFAULT: 4
4078LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4079DOC_NONE
4080
4081NAME: incoming_dns_average
4082TYPE: int
4083DEFAULT: 4
4084LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4085DOC_NONE
4086
4087NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4088TYPE: int
4089DEFAULT: 8
4090LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4091DOC_NONE
4092
4093NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4094TYPE: int
4095DEFAULT: 8
4096LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4097DOC_NONE
4098
4099NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4100TYPE: int
4101DEFAULT: 8
4102LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4103DOC_START
4104 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4105 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4106 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4107DOC_END
4108
4109NAME: max_open_disk_fds
4110TYPE: int
4111LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
4112DEFAULT: 0
4113DOC_START
4114 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
4115 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
4116 descriptors are open.
4117
4118 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
4119DOC_END
4120
4121NAME: offline_mode
4122TYPE: onoff
4123LOC: Config.onoff.offline
4124DEFAULT: off
4125DOC_START
4126 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
4127 objects.
4128DOC_END
4129
4130NAME: uri_whitespace
4131TYPE: uri_whitespace
4132LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
4133DEFAULT: strip
4134DOC_START
4135 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
4136 URI. Options:
4137
4138 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
4139 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
4140 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
4141 Request" message.
4142 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
4143 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
4144 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
4145 are in use.
4146 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
4147 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
4148 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
4149 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
4150 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
4151 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
4152 violation.
4153DOC_END
4154
4155NAME: broken_posts
4156TYPE: acl_access
4157DEFAULT: none
4158LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4159DOC_START
4160 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4161 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4162
4163 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4164 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4165
4166 Quote from RFC 2068 section 4.1 on this matter:
4167
4168 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4169 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4170 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4171 a request with an extra CRLF.
4172
4173Example:
4174 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4175 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4176DOC_END
4177
4178NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4179IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4180TYPE: address
4181LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4182DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4183DOC_START
4184 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4185 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
4186
4187 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4188 certain you understand what you are doing.
4189DOC_END
4190
4191NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
964b44c3 4192IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
cccac0a2 4193TYPE: ushort
4194LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4195DEFAULT: 16
4196DOC_START
4197 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4198 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4199 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4200DOC_END
4201
4202NAME: mcast_miss_port
4203IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4204TYPE: ushort
4205LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4206DEFAULT: 3135
4207DOC_START
4208 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4209 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4210DOC_END
4211
4212NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4213IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4214TYPE: string
4215LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4216DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4217DOC_START
4218 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4219 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4220DOC_END
4221
4222NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
4223TYPE: onoff
4224LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
4225DEFAULT: on
4226DOC_START
4227 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4228 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cachable request type) direct
4229 to origin servers.
4230
7f7db318 4231 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
cccac0a2 4232 requests to parents.
4233
4234 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4235 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4236 ratio.
4237
7f7db318 4238 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
cccac0a2 4239 this directive.
4240DOC_END
4241
4242NAME: prefer_direct
4243TYPE: onoff
4244LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
4245DEFAULT: off
4246DOC_START
7f7db318 4247 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
cccac0a2 4248 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7f7db318 4249 going direct fails set this to on.
cccac0a2 4250
4251 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4252 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4253 fails.
4254DOC_END
4255
4256NAME: strip_query_terms
4257TYPE: onoff
4258LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
4259DEFAULT: on
4260DOC_START
4261 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
4262 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
4263DOC_END
4264
4265NAME: coredump_dir
4266TYPE: string
4267LOC: Config.coredump_dir
4268DEFAULT: none
4269DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4270DOC_START
4271 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4272 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4273 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4274 and coredump files will be left there.
4275
4276NOCOMMENT_START
5ff76111 4277# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
cccac0a2 4278coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4279NOCOMMENT_END
4280DOC_END
4281
4282NAME: redirector_bypass
4283TYPE: onoff
4284LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4285DEFAULT: off
4286DOC_START
4287 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4288 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4289 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4290 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4291 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4292 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4293 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
7f7db318 4294 users may have access to pages they should not
cccac0a2 4295 be allowed to request.
4296DOC_END
4297
4298NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
4299TYPE: onoff
4300LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
4301DEFAULT: on
4302DOC_START
4303 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7f7db318 4304 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
cccac0a2 4305 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
4306 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
4307 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
4308DOC_END
4309
4310NAME: digest_generation
4311IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4312TYPE: onoff
4313LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4314DEFAULT: on
4315DOC_START
4316 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4317 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
4318 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
4319DOC_END
4320
4321NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4322IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4323TYPE: int
4324LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4325DEFAULT: 5
4326DOC_START
4327 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4328 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4329 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4330DOC_END
4331
4332NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4333IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4334COMMENT: (seconds)
4335TYPE: time_t
4336LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4337DEFAULT: 1 hour
4338DOC_START
4339 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
4340DOC_END
4341
4342NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4343COMMENT: (seconds)
4344IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4345TYPE: time_t
4346LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4347DEFAULT: 1 hour
4348DOC_START
4349 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
4350 disk.
4351DOC_END
4352
4353NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4354COMMENT: (bytes)
4355TYPE: b_size_t
4356IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4357LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4358DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4359DOC_START
4360 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4361 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4362 default swap page.
4363DOC_END
4364
4365NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4366COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4367IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4368TYPE: int
4369LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4370DEFAULT: 10
4371DOC_START
4372 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4373 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4374DOC_END
4375
4376NAME: chroot
4377TYPE: string
4378LOC: Config.chroot_dir
4379DEFAULT: none
4380DOC_START
4381 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
4382 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
7f7db318 4383 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
cccac0a2 4384 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an
4385 error.
4386DOC_END
4387
4388NAME: client_persistent_connections
4389TYPE: onoff
4390LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4391DEFAULT: on
4392DOC_NONE
4393
4394NAME: server_persistent_connections
4395TYPE: onoff
4396LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4397DEFAULT: on
4398DOC_START
4399 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4400 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4401 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4402 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4403DOC_END
4404
a12a049a 4405NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
4406TYPE: onoff
4407LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
4408DEFAULT: on
4409DOC_START
4410 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
4411 found not to preserve user session state across requests
4412 to different IP addresses.
4413
4414 By default Squid rotates IP's per request. By disabling
4415 this directive only connection failure triggers rotation.
4416DOC_END
4417
cccac0a2 4418NAME: pipeline_prefetch
4419TYPE: onoff
4420LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
4421DEFAULT: off
4422DOC_START
4423 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
4424 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
4425 up to two requests in parallell from a pipeline.
4426
4427 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
4428 reasons.
4429DOC_END
4430
4431NAME: extension_methods
4432TYPE: wordlist
4433LOC: Config.ext_methods
4434DEFAULT: none
4435DOC_START
4436 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
4437 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
4438DOC_END
4439
4440NAME: request_entities
4441TYPE: onoff
4442LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4443DEFAULT: off
4444DOC_START
4445 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4446 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4447 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4448
4449 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4450 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests.
4451DOC_END
4452
4453NAME: high_response_time_warning
4454TYPE: int
4455COMMENT: (msec)
4456LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
4457DEFAULT: 0
4458DOC_START
4459 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
4460 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
4461 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
4462DOC_END
4463
4464NAME: high_page_fault_warning
4465TYPE: int
4466LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
4467DEFAULT: 0
4468DOC_START
4469 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
4470 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4471 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
4472 per second.
4473DOC_END
4474
4475NAME: high_memory_warning
4476TYPE: b_size_t
4477LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
4478DEFAULT: 0
4479DOC_START
4480 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
4481 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4482 the administrators attention.
4483DOC_END
4484
4485NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4486TYPE: string
4487LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4488DEFAULT: least-load
4489DOC_START
4490 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
4491DOC_END
4492
4493NAME: forward_log
4494IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
4495TYPE: string
4496DEFAULT: none
4497LOC: Config.Log.forward
4498DOC_START
4499 Logs the server-side requests.
4500
4501 This is currently work in progress.
4502DOC_END
4503
4504NAME: ie_refresh
4505COMMENT: on|off
4506TYPE: onoff
4507LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4508DEFAULT: off
4509DOC_START
4510 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4511 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4512 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4513 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4514 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4515 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4516 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
7f7db318 4517 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
cccac0a2 4518 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4519 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4520 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4521 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4522 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4523 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4524 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4525 force fresh content.
4526DOC_END
4527
4528NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4529COMMENT: on|off
4530TYPE: onoff
4531LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4532DEFAULT: off
4533DOC_START
4534 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4535 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4536 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4537 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4538 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4539 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
4540 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4541DOC_END
4542
4543NAME: sleep_after_fork
4544COMMENT: (microseconds)
4545TYPE: int
4546LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
4547DEFAULT: 0
4548DOC_START
4549 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
4550 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
4551 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
4552 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7f7db318 4553 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
4554 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
cccac0a2 4555 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
4556 until all the child processes have been started.
4557DOC_END
4558
6a2f3fcf 4559NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4560COMMENT: (seconds)
4561TYPE: time_t
4562LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4563DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4564DOC_START
4565 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4566 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
4567 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy enorinments it
4568 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4569 is most likely better to make your server return a
4c43e44e 4570 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4571 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4572 often be best set to 0.
6a2f3fcf 4573DOC_END
4574
cccac0a2 4575EOF