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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
cccac0a2 1114 Common options:
1115
1116 read-only, this cache_dir is read only.
1117
1118 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1119 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1120 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1121 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1122 ones with no max-size specification last.
1a224843 1123
7f7db318 1124 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1a224843 1125 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1126 option.
cccac0a2 1127DOC_END
1128
1129
1130NAME: logformat
1131TYPE: logformat
1132LOC: Config.Log.logformats
1133DEFAULT: none
1134DOC_START
1135 Usage:
1136
1137 logformat <name> <format specification>
1138
1139 Defines an access log format.
1140
1141 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
7f7db318 1142
cccac0a2 1143 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
1144 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically quoted
1145 as required according to their context and the output format
1146 modifiers are usually unneeded but can be specified if an explicit
1147 quoting format is desired.
1148
1149 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
7f7db318 1150
cccac0a2 1151 " quoted string output format
1152 [ squid log quoted format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1153 # URL quoted output format
1154 ' No automatic quoting
1155 - left aligned
7f7db318 1156 width field width. If starting with 0 the
cccac0a2 1157 output is zero padded
1158 {arg} argument such as header name etc
1159
1160 Format codes:
1161
1162 >a Client source IP address
1163 >A Client FQDN
1164 <A Server IP address or peer name
1165 la Local IP address (http_port)
1166 lp Local port number (http_port)
1167 ts Seconds since epoch
1168 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1169 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1170 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1171 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1172 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1173 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1174 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1175 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1176 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1177 as for >h
1178 un User name
1179 ul User login
1180 ui User ident
1181 ue User from external acl
1182 Hs HTTP status code
1183 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1184 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1185 mt MIME content type
1186 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1187 ru Request URL
1188 rv Request protocol version
1189 et Tag returned by external acl
1190 ea Log string returned by external acl
1191 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
03b29b6c 1192 <sH Reply high offset sent
1193 <sS Upstream object size
cccac0a2 1194 % a literal % character
1195
1196logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
1197logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
1198logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
1199logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
1200DOC_END
1201
1202NAME: access_log cache_access_log
1203TYPE: access_log
1204LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
1205DEFAULT: none
1206DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@
1207DOC_START
1208 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
1209 ICP request. The format is:
1210 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
1211 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
1212
1213 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
1214 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
1215 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
1216 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
7f7db318 1217
cccac0a2 1218 To disable logging of a request specify "none".
1219DOC_END
1220
1221
1222NAME: cache_log
1223TYPE: string
1224DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
1225LOC: Config.Log.log
1226DOC_START
1227 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
1228 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
1229 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
1230DOC_END
1231
1232
1233NAME: cache_store_log
1234TYPE: string
1235DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
1236LOC: Config.Log.store
1237DOC_START
1238 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
1239 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
1240 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
1241 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
1242 disable it.
1243DOC_END
1244
1245
e2529a2c 1246NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
cccac0a2 1247TYPE: string
1248LOC: Config.Log.swap
1249DEFAULT: none
1250DOC_START
e2529a2c 1251 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
1252 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
1253 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
cccac0a2 1254 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
1255 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
1256 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
1257 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
1258
7f7db318 1259 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
cccac0a2 1260 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
1261 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
1262 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
7f7db318 1263
cccac0a2 1264 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
7f7db318 1265 these swap logs will have names such as:
cccac0a2 1266
1267 cache_swap_log.00
1268 cache_swap_log.01
1269 cache_swap_log.02
1270
1271 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
1272 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
1273 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
7f7db318 1274 lines in this file, these log files will NOT correspond to
cccac0a2 1275 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
7f7db318 1276 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
cccac0a2 1277 better to keep these log files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
1278DOC_END
1279
1280
1281NAME: emulate_httpd_log
1282COMMENT: on|off
1283TYPE: onoff
1284DEFAULT: off
1285LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
1286DOC_START
1287 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
1288 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
1289 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
1290 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
7f7db318 1291 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
cccac0a2 1292DOC_END
1293
1294NAME: log_ip_on_direct
1295COMMENT: on|off
1296TYPE: onoff
1297DEFAULT: on
1298LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
1299DOC_START
1300 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
1301 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
1302 prefer the old way set this to off.
1303DOC_END
1304
1305NAME: mime_table
1306TYPE: string
1307DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
1308LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
1309DOC_START
1310 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
1311 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
1312 information if you do.
1313DOC_END
1314
1315
1316NAME: log_mime_hdrs
1317COMMENT: on|off
1318TYPE: onoff
1319LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
1320DEFAULT: off
1321DOC_START
1322 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
1323 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
1324 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
1325 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
1326 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
1327DOC_END
1328
1329
1330NAME: useragent_log
1331TYPE: string
1332LOC: Config.Log.useragent
1333DEFAULT: none
1334IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
1335DOC_START
1336 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
1337 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
1338 is disabled.
1339DOC_END
1340
1341
1342NAME: referer_log
1343TYPE: string
1344LOC: Config.Log.referer
1345DEFAULT: none
1346IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
1347DOC_START
1348 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
1349 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
1350DOC_END
1351
1352
1353NAME: pid_filename
1354TYPE: string
1355DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
1356LOC: Config.pidFilename
1357DOC_START
1358 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
1359DOC_END
1360
1361
1362NAME: debug_options
d9e04dc7 1363TYPE: debug
cccac0a2 1364DEFAULT: ALL,1
1365LOC: Config.debugOptions
1366DOC_START
1367 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
1368 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
1369 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
1370 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
1371 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
1372 "ALL,1".
1373DOC_END
1374
1375
1376NAME: log_fqdn
1377COMMENT: on|off
1378TYPE: onoff
1379DEFAULT: off
1380LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
1381DOC_START
1382 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
1383 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
1384 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
1385 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
1386 browsing.
1387DOC_END
1388
1389
1390NAME: client_netmask
1391TYPE: address
1392LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
1393DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
1394DOC_START
1395 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
1396 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
1397 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
1398 the last digit set to '0'.
1399DOC_END
0976f8db 1400
0976f8db 1401
cccac0a2 1402COMMENT_START
1403 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
1404 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1405COMMENT_END
1406
1407NAME: ftp_user
1408TYPE: string
1409DEFAULT: Squid@
1410LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
1411DOC_START
1412 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
1413 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
1414 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
1415
7f7db318 1416 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
cccac0a2 1417 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
1418 depending on how the cache is used.
7f7db318 1419 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
cccac0a2 1420 (for example perl.com).
1421DOC_END
1422
1423NAME: ftp_list_width
1424TYPE: size_t
1425DEFAULT: 32
1426LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
1427DOC_START
1428 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
1429 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
1430 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
1431DOC_END
1432
1433NAME: ftp_passive
1434TYPE: onoff
1435DEFAULT: on
1436LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
1437DOC_START
1438 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
7f7db318 1439 connections, turn off this option.
cccac0a2 1440DOC_END
1441
1442NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
1443TYPE: onoff
1444DEFAULT: on
1445LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
1446DOC_START
1447 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
1448 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
1449 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
1450 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
7f7db318 1451 connection turn this off.
cccac0a2 1452DOC_END
1453
1454NAME: check_hostnames
1455TYPE: onoff
1456DEFAULT: on
1457LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
1458DOC_START
1459 For security and stability reasons Squid by default checks
1460 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you do not want
7f7db318 1461 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive off.
cccac0a2 1462DOC_END
1463
dad0fe12 1464NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
1465TYPE: onoff
1466DEFAULT: on
1467LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
1468DOC_START
1469The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
1470as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
1471implemenations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
1472the FTP protocol.
1473
1474If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
7f7db318 1475path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
1476try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
dad0fe12 1477operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
1478is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
1479DOC_END
1480
cccac0a2 1481NAME: cache_dns_program
1482TYPE: string
1483IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1484DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
1485LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
1486DOC_START
1487 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
1488DOC_END
1489
1490NAME: dns_children
1491TYPE: int
1492IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1493DEFAULT: 5
1494LOC: Config.dnsChildren
1495DOC_START
1496 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
1497 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
1498 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
1499 is 32. The default is 5.
1500
1501 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
1502DOC_END
1503
1504NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
1505TYPE: time_t
1506DEFAULT: 5 seconds
1507LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
1508IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1509DOC_START
1510 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
1511 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
1512
1513DOC_END
1514
1515NAME: dns_timeout
1516TYPE: time_t
1517DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1518LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
1519IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1520DOC_START
1521 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7f7db318 1522 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
1523 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 1524DOC_END
1525
1526NAME: dns_defnames
1527COMMENT: on|off
1528IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1529TYPE: onoff
1530DEFAULT: off
1531LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
1532IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1533DOC_START
1534 Normally the 'dnsserver' disables the RES_DEFNAMES resolver
1535 option (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
1536 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
1537 dnsserver to handle single-component names, enable this
1538 option.
1539DOC_END
1540
1541NAME: dns_nameservers
1542TYPE: wordlist
1543DEFAULT: none
1544LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
1545DOC_START
1546 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
1547 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
1548 /etc/resolv.conf file.
1549 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
1550 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
1551 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
1552 configurations are supported.
1553
1554 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
1555DOC_END
1556
1557NAME: hosts_file
1558TYPE: string
1559DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
1560LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
1561DOC_START
1562 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
1563 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7f7db318 1564 default locations:
cccac0a2 1565 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
1566 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
1567 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
1568 - Windows XP: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
1569 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
1570 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
1571 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
1572 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
1573
1574 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
1575 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
1576 whitespace-separated. Lines beginnng with an hash (#)
1577 character are comments.
1578
7f7db318 1579 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
cccac0a2 1580 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7f7db318 1581 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
cccac0a2 1582 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
1583 definitions.
1584DOC_END
1585
1586NAME: diskd_program
1587TYPE: string
1588DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
1589LOC: Config.Program.diskd
1590DOC_START
1591 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
7f7db318 1592 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
cccac0a2 1593 diskd as one of the store io modules.
1594DOC_END
1595
1596NAME: unlinkd_program
1597IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
1598TYPE: string
1599DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
1600LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
1601DOC_START
1602 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
1603DOC_END
1604
1605NAME: pinger_program
1606TYPE: string
1607DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
1608LOC: Config.Program.pinger
1609IFDEF: USE_ICMP
1610DOC_START
1611 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
1612DOC_END
1613
1614
1615NAME: redirect_program
1616TYPE: wordlist
1617LOC: Config.Program.redirect
1618DEFAULT: none
1619DOC_START
1620 Specify the location of the executable for the URL redirector.
1621 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
1622 See the FAQ (section 15) for information on how to write one.
1623 By default, a redirector is not used.
1624DOC_END
1625
1626
1627NAME: redirect_children
1628TYPE: int
1629DEFAULT: 5
1630LOC: Config.redirectChildren
1631DOC_START
1632 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
1633 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
1634 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
1635 and other system resources.
1636DOC_END
1637
1638NAME: redirect_concurrency
1639TYPE: int
1640DEFAULT: 0
1641LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
1642DOC_START
1643 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
7f7db318 1644 parallell. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
cccac0a2 1645 is a old-style singlethreaded redirector.
1646DOC_END
1647
1648NAME: redirect_rewrites_host_header
1649TYPE: onoff
1650DEFAULT: on
1651LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
1652DOC_START
1653 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
7f7db318 1654 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
cccac0a2 1655 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
1656
1657 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
1658 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
1659DOC_END
1660
1661NAME: redirector_access
1662TYPE: acl_access
1663DEFAULT: none
1664LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
1665DOC_START
1666 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
1667 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
1668 are sent.
1669DOC_END
1670
1671NAME: auth_param
1672TYPE: authparam
1673LOC: Config.authConfiguration
1674DEFAULT: none
1675DOC_START
1676 This is used to pass parameters to the various authentication
1677 schemes.
1678 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
7f7db318 1679
1680 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1681 would tell the basic authentication scheme it's program parameter.
1682
7f7db318 1683 The order authentication prompts are presented to the client_agent
cccac0a2 1684 is dependant on the order the scheme first appears in config file.
1685 IE has a bug (it's not rfc 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
1686 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure schemes
1687 are presented. For now use the order in the file below. If other browsers
1688 have difficulties (don't recognise the schemes offered even if you are using
7f7db318 1689 basic) either put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting
cccac0a2 1690 out their program entry).
1691
1692 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be shutdown
1693 by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on the fly and
1694 activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a different helper,
1695 but not unconfigure the helper completely.
1696
1697 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
7f7db318 1698
cccac0a2 1699 "program" cmdline
1700 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1701 program reads a line containing "username password" and replies
1702 "OK" or "ERR" in an endless loop. If you use an authenticator,
1703 make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth. By default, the
1704 basic authentication sheme is not used unless a program is specified.
1705
1706 If you want to use the traditional proxy authentication,
1707 jump over to the ../auth_modules/NCSA directory and
1708 type:
1709 % make
1710 % make install
1711
1712 Then, set this line to something like
1713
1714 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
1715
1716 "children" numberofchildren
1717 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1718 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1719 process a backlog of usercode/password verifications, slowing
1720 it down. When password verifications are done via a (slow)
1721 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1722 processes.
1723 auth_param basic children 5
1724
1725 "concurrency" concurrency
1726 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
1727 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
1728 one request at a time.
1729 auth_param basic concurrency 0
1730
1731 "realm" realmstring
1732 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1733 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
1734 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1735 password). There is no default.
1736 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1737
1738 "credentialsttl" timetolive
1739 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
1740 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
1741 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
1742 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
7f7db318 1743 setting this high does not impact your susceptability
cccac0a2 1744 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
1745 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
1746 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
1747 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
1748
64658378 1749 "casesensitive" on|off
1750 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
1751 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
1752 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
1753 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
1754 auth_param basic casesensitive off
1755
cccac0a2 1756 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
1757
1758 "program" cmdline
1759 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
1760 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
4c9fa5d5 1761 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value base64 encoded or
1762 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
1763 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
1764
1765 By default, the digest authentication is not used unless a
1766 program is specified.
1767
1768 If you want to use a digest authenticator, jump over to the
1769 helpers/digest_auth/ directory and choose the authenticator
1770 to use. In it's directory type
cccac0a2 1771 % make
1772 % make install
1773
1774 Then, set this line to something like
1775
1776 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
1777
1778
1779 "children" numberofchildren
1780 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1781 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1782 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
1783 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
1784 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
1785 auth_param digest children 5
1786
1787 "realm" realmstring
1788 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1789 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
1790 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1791 password). There is no default.
1792 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1793
1794 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
1795 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
1796 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
1797
1798 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
1799 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
1800 valid for.
1801
1802 "nonce_max_count" number
1803 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
1804 used.
1805
1806 "nonce_strictness" on|off
1807 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behaviour
1808 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
1809 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
1810 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
1811
1812 "check_nonce_count" on|off
1813 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
1814 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
1815 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
1816 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
1817
1818 "post_workaround" on|off
1819 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
1820 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
1821 the same nonce as aquired earlier on a GET request.
1822
1823
1824 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
1825
1826 "program" cmdline
1827 Specify the command for the external ntlm authenticator.
bdf7e1b4 1828 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
1829 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
cccac0a2 1830 If you use an ntlm authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
1831 of type proxy_auth. By default, the ntlm authenticator_program
1832 is not used.
1833
1834 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
1835
1836 "children" numberofchildren
1837 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1838 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1839 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
1840 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
1841 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1842 processes.
1843 auth_param ntlm children 5
1844
1845 "max_challenge_reuses" number
1846 The maximum number of times a challenge given by a ntlm
1847 authentication helper can be reused. Increasing this number
1848 increases your exposure to replay attacks on your network.
1849 0 means use the challenge only once. (disable challenge
1850 caching) See max_ntlm_challenge_lifetime for more information.
1851 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1852
1853 "max_challenge_lifetime" timespan
7f7db318 1854 The maximum time period a ntlm challenge is reused
cccac0a2 1855 over. The actual period will be the minimum of this time
1856 AND the number of reused challenges.
1857 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
1858
1859NOCOMMENT_START
94439e4e 1860#Recommended minimum configuration:
2d70df72 1861#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
1862#auth_param digest children 5
1863#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1864#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
1865#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
1866#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
94439e4e 1867#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
2d70df72 1868#auth_param ntlm children 5
1869#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1870#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
94439e4e 1871#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6b698a21 1872auth_param basic children 5
1873auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1874auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
1875NOCOMMENT_END
1876DOC_END
0976f8db 1877
6b698a21 1878NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
1879TYPE: time_t
1880DEFAULT: 1 hour
1881LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
1882DOC_START
1883 The time period between garbage collection across the
1884 username cache. This is a tradeoff between memory utilisation
1885 (long intervals - say 2 days) and CPU (short intervals -
1886 say 1 minute). Only change if you have good reason to.
1887DOC_END
0976f8db 1888
6b698a21 1889NAME: authenticate_ttl
1890TYPE: time_t
1891DEFAULT: 1 hour
1892LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
1893DOC_START
1894 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
1895 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
1896 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
1897 TTL are removed from memory.
1898DOC_END
0976f8db 1899
6b698a21 1900NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
1901TYPE: time_t
1902LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
1903DEFAULT: 0 seconds
1904DOC_START
1905 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
1906 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
1907 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
1908 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
1909 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
1910 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
1911 environment with relatively static address assignments.
1912DOC_END
0976f8db 1913
6b698a21 1914NAME: external_acl_type
1915TYPE: externalAclHelper
1916LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
1917DEFAULT: none
1918DOC_START
1919 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
1920 to look up the status
7f7db318 1921
6b698a21 1922 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
7f7db318 1923
6b698a21 1924 Options:
0976f8db 1925
6b698a21 1926 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
1927 for 1 hour)
1928 negative_ttl=n
1929 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
1930 as ttl)
1931 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
1932 external acl lookups of this type.
1933 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Use 0 for old style
1934 helpers who can only process a single request at a
1935 time.
1936 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
1937 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
1938 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
1939 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
dc1af3cf 1940 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
7f7db318 1941
6b698a21 1942 FORMAT specifications
1943
1944 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
1945 %IDENT Ident user name
1946 %SRC Client IP
1947 %SRCPORT Client source port
1948 %DST Requested host
1949 %PROTO Requested protocol
1950 %PORT Requested port
1951 %PATH Requested URL path
1952 %METHOD Request method
1953 %MYADDR Squid interface address
1954 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
1955 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate attribute xx
1956 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate CA attribute xx
1957 %{Header} HTTP request header
1958 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
1959 %{Hdr:;member}
1960 HTTP request header list member using ; as
1961 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
1962 character.
1963
1964 In addition, any string specified in the referencing acl will
1965 also be included in the helper request line, after the specified
1966 formats (see the "acl external" directive)
1967
1968 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
1969 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
1970 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
dc1af3cf 1971 more details. To protect from odd characters the data is URL
1972 escaped.
6b698a21 1973
1974 General result syntax:
7f7db318 1975
6b698a21 1976 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
0976f8db 1977
6b698a21 1978 Defined keywords:
0976f8db 1979
6b698a21 1980 user= The users name (login)
1981 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
1982 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
1983 in error pages
1984 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
1985 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
1986 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
1987 %ea in logformat specifications
0976f8db 1988
dc1af3cf 1989 Keyword values need to be URL escaped if they may contain
1990 contain whitespace or quotes.
1991
1992 In Squid-2.5 compatibility mode quoting using " and \ is used
1993 instead of URL escaping.
6b698a21 1994DOC_END
0976f8db 1995
6b698a21 1996COMMENT_START
1997 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
1998 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1999COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2000
6b698a21 2001NAME: wais_relay_host
2002TYPE: string
2003DEFAULT: none
2004LOC: Config.Wais.relayHost
2005DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2006
6b698a21 2007NAME: wais_relay_port
2008TYPE: ushort
2009DEFAULT: 0
2010LOC: Config.Wais.relayPort
2011DOC_START
2012 Relay WAIS request to host (1st arg) at port (2 arg).
2013DOC_END
0976f8db 2014
0976f8db 2015
6b698a21 2016NAME: request_header_max_size
2017COMMENT: (KB)
2018TYPE: b_size_t
5b648f60 2019DEFAULT: 20 KB
6b698a21 2020LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2021DOC_START
2022 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2023 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2024 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2025 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2026 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2027DOC_END
0976f8db 2028
6b698a21 2029NAME: request_body_max_size
2030COMMENT: (KB)
2031TYPE: b_size_t
2032DEFAULT: 0 KB
2033LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2034DOC_START
2035 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2036 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2037 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2038 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2039 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2040 be no limit imposed.
2041DOC_END
0976f8db 2042
6b698a21 2043NAME: refresh_pattern
2044TYPE: refreshpattern
2045LOC: Config.Refresh
2046DEFAULT: none
2047DOC_START
2048 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
0976f8db 2049
6b698a21 2050 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2051 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
0976f8db 2052
6b698a21 2053 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2054 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2055 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2056 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2057 has taken the appropriate actions.
0976f8db 2058
6b698a21 2059 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2060 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2061 will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2062
6b698a21 2063 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2064 expiry time will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2065
6b698a21 2066 options: override-expire
2067 override-lastmod
2068 reload-into-ims
2069 ignore-reload
38f9c547 2070 ignore-no-cache
2071 ignore-no-store
2072 ignore-private
2073 ignore-auth
0976f8db 2074
6b698a21 2075 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2076 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2077 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2078 for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2079
6b698a21 2080 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
7f7db318 2081 that were modified recently.
0976f8db 2082
6b698a21 2083 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2084 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2085 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2086 liable for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2087
6b698a21 2088 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2089 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2090 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2091 it causes.
7f7db318 2092
38f9c547 2093 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2094 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2095 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2096 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2097 send it anyway.
2098
2099 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2100 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2101 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2102 liable for problems which it causes.
2103
2104 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2105 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2106 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2107 liable for problems which it causes.
2108
2109 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2110 irrespective of ``Cache-control'' headers received from
2111 a server. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2112 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2113 it causes.
2114
6b698a21 2115 Basically a cached object is:
0976f8db 2116
6b698a21 2117 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2118 STALE if age > max
2119 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2120 FRESH if age < min
2121 else STALE
0976f8db 2122
6b698a21 2123 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2124 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
7f7db318 2125 match the default will be used.
0976f8db 2126
6b698a21 2127 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2128 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2129 used.
0976f8db 2130
6b698a21 2131Suggested default:
2132NOCOMMENT_START
2133refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2134refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2135refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2136NOCOMMENT_END
2137DOC_END
0976f8db 2138
6b698a21 2139NAME: quick_abort_min
2140COMMENT: (KB)
2141TYPE: kb_size_t
2142DEFAULT: 16 KB
2143LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2144DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2145
6b698a21 2146NAME: quick_abort_max
2147COMMENT: (KB)
2148TYPE: kb_size_t
2149DEFAULT: 16 KB
2150LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2151DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2152
6b698a21 2153NAME: quick_abort_pct
2154COMMENT: (percent)
2155TYPE: int
2156DEFAULT: 95
2157LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2158DOC_START
2159 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2160 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2161 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2162 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2163 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2164 downloads.
0976f8db 2165
6b698a21 2166 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2167 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2168 then.
0976f8db 2169
6b698a21 2170 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2171 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2172
6b698a21 2173 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2174 it will abort the retrieval.
0976f8db 2175
6b698a21 2176 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2177 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2178
6b698a21 2179 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2180 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2181 to '0 KB'.
0976f8db 2182
6b698a21 2183 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
7f7db318 2184 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6b698a21 2185DOC_END
0976f8db 2186
6b698a21 2187NAME: read_ahead_gap
2188COMMENT: buffer-size
2189TYPE: kb_size_t
2190LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2191DEFAULT: 16 KB
2192DOC_START
2193 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2194 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2195DOC_END
0976f8db 2196
6b698a21 2197NAME: negative_ttl
2198COMMENT: time-units
2199TYPE: time_t
2200LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2201DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2202DOC_START
2203 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2204 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2205 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2206 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2207 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2208DOC_END
0976f8db 2209
0976f8db 2210
6b698a21 2211NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2212COMMENT: time-units
2213TYPE: time_t
2214LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2215DEFAULT: 6 hours
2216DOC_START
2217 Time-to-Live (TTL) for positive caching of successful DNS lookups.
2218 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). If you want to minimize the
2219 use of Squid's ipcache, set this to 1, not 0.
2220DOC_END
0976f8db 2221
0976f8db 2222
6b698a21 2223NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2224COMMENT: time-units
2225TYPE: time_t
2226LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2227DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2228DOC_START
2229 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2230DOC_END
0976f8db 2231
6b698a21 2232NAME: range_offset_limit
2233COMMENT: (bytes)
2234TYPE: b_size_t
2235LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2236DEFAULT: 0 KB
2237DOC_START
2238 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2239 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
7f7db318 2240 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
6b698a21 2241 is NOT cached.
0976f8db 2242
6b698a21 2243 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2244 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2245 sending anything to the client.
0976f8db 2246
6b698a21 2247 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
7f7db318 2248 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
0976f8db 2249
6b698a21 2250 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2251 client requested. (default)
2252DOC_END
0976f8db 2253
0976f8db 2254
6b698a21 2255COMMENT_START
2256 TIMEOUTS
2257 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2258COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2259
777831e0 2260NAME: forward_timeout
2261COMMENT: time-units
2262TYPE: time_t
2263LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
2264DEFAULT: 4 minutes
2265DOC_START
2266 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
2267 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
2268DOC_END
2269
6b698a21 2270NAME: connect_timeout
2271COMMENT: time-units
2272TYPE: time_t
2273LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
777831e0 2274DEFAULT: 1 minute
6b698a21 2275DOC_START
777831e0 2276 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
2277 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
2278 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
6b698a21 2279DOC_END
0976f8db 2280
6b698a21 2281NAME: peer_connect_timeout
2282COMMENT: time-units
2283TYPE: time_t
2284LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
2285DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2286DOC_START
2287 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
2288 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
2289 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
2290 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
2291DOC_END
0976f8db 2292
6b698a21 2293NAME: read_timeout
2294COMMENT: time-units
2295TYPE: time_t
2296LOC: Config.Timeout.read
2297DEFAULT: 15 minutes
2298DOC_START
2299 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
2300 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
2301 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
2302 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
2303 default is 15 minutes.
2304DOC_END
0976f8db 2305
0976f8db 2306
6b698a21 2307NAME: request_timeout
2308TYPE: time_t
2309LOC: Config.Timeout.request
2310DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2311DOC_START
2312 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
2313 connection establishment.
2314DOC_END
0976f8db 2315
0976f8db 2316
6b698a21 2317NAME: persistent_request_timeout
2318TYPE: time_t
2319LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
2320DEFAULT: 1 minute
2321DOC_START
2322 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
2323 connection after the previous request completes.
2324DOC_END
0976f8db 2325
0976f8db 2326
6b698a21 2327NAME: client_lifetime
2328COMMENT: time-units
2329TYPE: time_t
2330LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
2331DEFAULT: 1 day
2332DOC_START
7f7db318 2333 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6b698a21 2334 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
2335 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
2336 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
2337 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
2338 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
2339 day, 1440 minutes.
2340
2341 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
2342 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
2343 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
2344 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
2345 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
2346 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
2347DOC_END
2348
2349NAME: half_closed_clients
2350TYPE: onoff
2351LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
2352DEFAULT: on
2353DOC_START
2354 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
2355 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
2356 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
2357 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
2358 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
2359 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
2360 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
2361 "no more data to read."
2362DOC_END
0976f8db 2363
6b698a21 2364NAME: pconn_timeout
2365TYPE: time_t
2366LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
2367DEFAULT: 120 seconds
2368DOC_START
2369 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
2370 proxies.
2371DOC_END
0976f8db 2372
6b698a21 2373NAME: ident_timeout
2374TYPE: time_t
2375IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2376LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
2377DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2378DOC_START
2379 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
7f7db318 2380
6b698a21 2381 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7f7db318 2382 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6b698a21 2383 many ident requests going at once.
2384DOC_END
0976f8db 2385
0976f8db 2386
6b698a21 2387NAME: shutdown_lifetime
2388COMMENT: time-units
2389TYPE: time_t
2390LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
2391DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2392DOC_START
2393 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
2394 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
2395 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
2396 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
2397 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
2398DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2399
6b698a21 2400COMMENT_START
2401 ACCESS CONTROLS
2402 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2403COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 2404
6b698a21 2405NAME: acl
2406TYPE: acl
2407LOC: Config.aclList
2408DEFAULT: none
2409DOC_START
2410 Defining an Access List
9e7dbc51 2411
6b698a21 2412 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
2413 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
9e7dbc51 2414
6b698a21 2415 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
9e7dbc51 2416
6b698a21 2417 acltype is one of the types described below
9e7dbc51 2418
6b698a21 2419 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2420 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2421
6b698a21 2422 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
2423 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
2424 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
2425 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
9e7dbc51 2426
6b698a21 2427 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
2428 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
2429 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
2430 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
9e7dbc51 2431 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
2432 # based URL is used. The name "none" is used if the reverse lookup
2433 # fails.
2434
6b698a21 2435 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
2436 day-abbrevs:
2437 S - Sunday
2438 M - Monday
2439 T - Tuesday
2440 W - Wednesday
2441 H - Thursday
2442 F - Friday
2443 A - Saturday
2444 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
2445 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
2446 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
2447 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
2448 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
2449 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
2450 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
2451 acl aclname method GET POST ...
2452 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
2453 # pattern match on User-Agent header
2454 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
2455 # pattern match on Referer header
9e7dbc51 2456 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
6b698a21 2457 acl aclname ident username ...
2458 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
2459 # string match on ident output.
9e7dbc51 2460 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
6b698a21 2461 acl aclname src_as number ...
2462 acl aclname dst_as number ...
2463 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
9e7dbc51 2464 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
2465 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
6468fe10 2466 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
2467 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
d87ebd78 2468 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
2469 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
6468fe10 2470
6b698a21 2471 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
2472 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
2473 # list of valid usernames
c68e9c6b 2474 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
73e67ee0 2475 #
2476 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
2477 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
2478 # in access.log.
c68e9c6b 2479 #
2480 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
2481 # to check username/password combinations (see
f7d2a450 2482 # auth_param directive).
c68e9c6b 2483 #
d048c262 2484 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
2485 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
2486 # to respond to proxy authentication.
934b03fc 2487
6b698a21 2488 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
2489 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
dba79ac5 2490 # Example:
96d88dcb 2491 #
dba79ac5 2492 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
2493
6b698a21 2494 acl aclname maxconn number
2495 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
9bc73deb 2496 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
2497
6b698a21 2498 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
2499 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
c23e89cd 2500 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
60d096f4 2501 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
7f7db318 2502 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
be5caa55 2503 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
c23e89cd 2504 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
7f7db318 2505 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
be5caa55 2506 # request is denied)
2507 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
c23e89cd 2508 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
be5caa55 2509 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
60d096f4 2510
cccac0a2 2511 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2512 # regex match agains the mime type of the request generated
ba2b31a8 2513 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
2514 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2515 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
2516 # to match the returned file type.
c68e9c6b 2517
cccac0a2 2518 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2519 # regex match against the mime type of the reply recieved by
c4ab8329 2520 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
2521 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2522 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
2523 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
2524 # http_reply_access.
2525
cccac0a2 2526 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
2527 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
d9572179 2528 # external_acl_type directive.
c4ab8329 2529
cccac0a2 2530 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
2531 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2532 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2533
cccac0a2 2534 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
2535 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2536 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2537
cccac0a2 2538 acl aclname ext_user username ...
2539 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
2540 # string match on username returned by external acl processing
d95b862f 2541 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
2542
cccac0a2 2543Examples:
2544acl myexample dst_as 1241
2545acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
2546acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
2547acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
c68e9c6b 2548
cccac0a2 2549NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2550#Recommended minimum configuration:
cccac0a2 2551acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
2552acl manager proto cache_object
2553acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
2554acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
2555acl SSL_ports port 443 563
2556acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
2557acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
2558acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
2559acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
2560acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
2561acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
2562acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
2563acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
2564acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
2565acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
2566acl CONNECT method CONNECT
2567NOCOMMENT_END
2568DOC_END
2569
2570NAME: http_access
2571TYPE: acl_access
2572LOC: Config.accessList.http
2573DEFAULT: none
2574DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2575DOC_START
2576 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
2577
2578 Access to the HTTP port:
2579 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2580
2581 NOTE on default values:
2582
2583 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
2584 the request.
2585
2586 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
2587 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
7f7db318 2588 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
cccac0a2 2589 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
2590 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
2591 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
2592
2593NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2594#Recommended minimum configuration:
2595#
2596# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
cccac0a2 2597http_access allow manager localhost
2598http_access deny manager
6b53c392 2599# Deny requests to unknown ports
cccac0a2 2600http_access deny !Safe_ports
6b53c392 2601# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
cccac0a2 2602http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
c68e9c6b 2603#
7f7db318 2604# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
2605# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
4cc6eb12 2606# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
2607#http_access deny to_localhost
c68e9c6b 2608#
4cc6eb12 2609# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
2610
59f4a63e 2611# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
b9d7fe3e 2612# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
2613# be allowed
2614#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
2615#http_access allow our_networks
2616
6b53c392 2617# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
cccac0a2 2618http_access deny all
2619NOCOMMENT_END
2620DOC_END
c4ab8329 2621
cccac0a2 2622NAME: http_reply_access
2623TYPE: acl_access
2624LOC: Config.accessList.reply
2625DEFAULT: none
2626DEFAULT_IF_NONE: allow all
2627DOC_START
2628 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
c4ab8329 2629
cccac0a2 2630 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
0976f8db 2631
cccac0a2 2632 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
2633 all replies
0976f8db 2634
7f7db318 2635 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
cccac0a2 2636 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
2637 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
0976f8db 2638
cccac0a2 2639NOCOMMENT_START
c4ab8329 2640#Recommended minimum configuration:
2641#
2642# Insert your own rules here.
2643#
2644#
2645# and finally allow by default
cccac0a2 2646http_reply_access allow all
2647NOCOMMENT_END
2648DOC_END
6b53c392 2649
6b53c392 2650
cccac0a2 2651NAME: icp_access
2652TYPE: acl_access
2653LOC: Config.accessList.icp
2654DEFAULT: none
2655DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2656DOC_START
2657 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
2658 access lists
934b03fc 2659
cccac0a2 2660 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2661
cccac0a2 2662 See http_access for details
0976f8db 2663
cccac0a2 2664NOCOMMENT_START
403b5e7b 2665#Allow ICP queries from everyone
cccac0a2 2666icp_access allow all
2667NOCOMMENT_END
2668DOC_END
934b03fc 2669
2670
cccac0a2 2671NAME: miss_access
2672TYPE: acl_access
2673LOC: Config.accessList.miss
2674DEFAULT: none
2675DOC_START
2676 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2677 a parent. For example:
934b03fc 2678
cccac0a2 2679 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
2680 miss_access allow localclients
2681 miss_access deny !localclients
934b03fc 2682
7f7db318 2683 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
cccac0a2 2684 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
934b03fc 2685
cccac0a2 2686 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
2687 to fetch MISSES from us.
6b53c392 2688
cccac0a2 2689NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2690#Default setting:
2691# miss_access allow all
cccac0a2 2692NOCOMMENT_END
2693DOC_END
2694
2695
2696NAME: cache_peer_access
2697TYPE: peer_access
2698DEFAULT: none
2699LOC: none
2700DOC_START
2701 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2702 using ACL elements.
2703
2704 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2705
2706 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2707 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2708 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
2709DOC_END
2710
2711NAME: ident_lookup_access
2712TYPE: acl_access
2713IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2714DEFAULT: none
2715DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2716LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
2717DOC_START
2718 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2719 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2720 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2721 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2722 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2723 any requests.
2724
2725 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2726 can follow this example:
2727
2728 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
2729 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2730 ident_lookup_access deny all
2731
2732 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
2733 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2734 the correct result.
2735DOC_END
2736
2737NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2738TYPE: acl_tos
2739DEFAULT: none
2740LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
2741DOC_START
2742 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
2743 connections with, based on the username or source address
2744 making the request.
2745
2746 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2747
2748 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2749 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
2750
2751 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2752 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2753 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
2754 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2755
2756 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
2757 know what you're specifying. For more, see RFC 2474
2758
2759 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a byte, value 0 - 255, or
2760 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2761
2762 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2763 matching line.
2764DOC_END
2765
2766NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2767TYPE: acl_address
2768DEFAULT: none
2769LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2770DOC_START
2771 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2772 based on the username or sourceaddress of the user making
2773 the request.
7f7db318 2774
cccac0a2 2775 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
2776
2777 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwareded
7f7db318 2778 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
cccac0a2 2779 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
2780 source address 10.1.0.3.
2781
2782 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2783 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2784 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
2785 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
2786 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
2787
2788 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2789 matching line.
2790DOC_END
2791
2792NAME: reply_body_max_size
2793COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
2794TYPE: acl_b_size_t
2795DEFAULT: none
2796LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2797DOC_START
2798 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
2799 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
2800 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are recieved, the
2801 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
2802 all (if any) listed acls are true is used as the maximum body size
2803 for this reply.
2804
7f7db318 2805 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
cccac0a2 2806 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2807 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2808 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2809 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2810 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2811 and they will receive a partial reply.
2812
2813 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2814 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2815 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2816 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2817
2818 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2819 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2820 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2821 the size of your largest error page.
2822
2823 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2824 no limit imposed.
2825DOC_END
2826
2827NAME: log_access
2828TYPE: acl_access
2829LOC: Config.accessList.log
2830DEFAULT: none
2831COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2832DOC_START
2833 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2834 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2835 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2836DOC_END
0976f8db 2837
cccac0a2 2838COMMENT_START
2839 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
2840 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2841COMMENT_END
2842
2843NAME: cache_mgr
2844TYPE: string
2845DEFAULT: webmaster
2846LOC: Config.adminEmail
2847DOC_START
2848 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
2849 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
2850DOC_END
2851
2852
2853NAME: cache_effective_user
2854TYPE: string
2855DEFAULT: nobody
2856LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 2857DOC_START
2858 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
2859 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
2860 to UID to nobody. If you define cache_effective_user, but not
2861 cache_effective_group, Squid sets the GID to the effective
2862 user's default group ID (taken from the password file) and
2863 supplementary group list from the from groups membership of
2864 cache_effective_user.
2865DOC_END
2866
cccac0a2 2867
2868NAME: cache_effective_group
2869TYPE: string
2870DEFAULT: none
2871LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
2872DOC_START
e3d74828 2873 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
2874 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
2875 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
2876 all other group privileges of the effective user is ignored
2877 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
2878 root the user starting Squid must be member of the specified
2879 group.
cccac0a2 2880DOC_END
2881
2882
2883NAME: visible_hostname
2884TYPE: string
2885LOC: Config.visibleHostname
2886DEFAULT: none
2887DOC_START
2888 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 2889 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 2890 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
2891 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
2892 names with this setting.
2893DOC_END
2894
2895
2896NAME: unique_hostname
2897TYPE: string
2898LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
2899DEFAULT: none
2900DOC_START
2901 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 2902 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
2903 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 2904DOC_END
2905
2906
2907NAME: hostname_aliases
2908TYPE: wordlist
2909LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
2910DEFAULT: none
2911DOC_START
7f7db318 2912 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 2913DOC_END
0976f8db 2914
cccac0a2 2915COMMENT_START
2916 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
2917 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2918
2919 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
2920 announcement service. This service is provided to help
2921 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
2922 create cache hierarchies.
2923
2924 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
2925 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
2926 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
2927
2928 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
2929 following information from this configuration file:
2930
2931 http_port
2932 icp_port
2933 cache_mgr
2934
2935 All current information is processed regularly and made
2936 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
2937COMMENT_END
2938
2939NAME: announce_period
2940TYPE: time_t
2941LOC: Config.Announce.period
2942DEFAULT: 0
2943DOC_START
2944 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
2945 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
2946 messages.
2947
2948 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
2949 below.
2950
2951NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 2952#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
2953#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 2954NOCOMMENT_END
2955DOC_END
2956
2957
2958NAME: announce_host
2959TYPE: string
2960DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
2961LOC: Config.Announce.host
2962DOC_NONE
2963
2964NAME: announce_file
2965TYPE: string
2966DEFAULT: none
2967LOC: Config.Announce.file
2968DOC_NONE
2969
2970NAME: announce_port
2971TYPE: ushort
2972DEFAULT: 3131
2973LOC: Config.Announce.port
2974DOC_START
2975 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
2976 number where the registration message will be sent.
2977
2978 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
2979 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
2980 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
2981 message.
2982DOC_END
2983
2984NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
2985IFDEF: ESI
2986TYPE: string
2987LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
2988DEFAULT: unset-id
2989DOC_START
2990 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
2991 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
2992 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
2993 an identification token.
2994DOC_END
2995
2996NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
2997IFDEF: ESI
2998COMMENT: on|off
2999TYPE: onoff
3000DEFAULT: off
3001LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3002DOC_START
3003 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3004 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3005DOC_END
3006
3007NAME: esi_parser
3008IFDEF: ESI
3009COMMENT: expat|custom
3010TYPE: string
3011LOC: ESIParser::Type
3012DEFAULT: custom
3013DOC_START
3014 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3015 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3016 encodings.
3017DOC_END
0976f8db 3018
cccac0a2 3019COMMENT_START
3020 MISCELLANEOUS
3021 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3022COMMENT_END
3023
3024NAME: dns_testnames
3025TYPE: wordlist
3026LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
3027DEFAULT: none
3028DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
3029DOC_START
3030 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
3031
3032 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
3033DOC_END
3034
3035
3036NAME: logfile_rotate
3037TYPE: int
3038DEFAULT: 10
3039LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3040DOC_START
3041 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3042 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3043 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3044 disable the rotation, but the logfiles are still closed and
3045 re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3046 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3047
3048 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3049 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3050 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3051 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3052 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3053 <pid>'.
3054DOC_END
3055
3056
3057NAME: append_domain
3058TYPE: string
3059LOC: Config.appendDomain
3060DEFAULT: none
3061DOC_START
3062 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
3063 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
3064
7f7db318 3065 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
cccac0a2 3066 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
3067 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
3068
3069Example:
3070 append_domain .yourdomain.com
3071DOC_END
3072
3073
3074NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
3075COMMENT: (bytes)
3076TYPE: b_size_t
3077DEFAULT: 0 bytes
3078LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
3079DOC_START
3080 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
3081 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
3082 the default buffer size.
3083DOC_END
3084
3085NAME: err_html_text
3086TYPE: eol
3087LOC: Config.errHtmlText
3088DEFAULT: none
3089DOC_START
3090 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
3091 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
3092 organizations Web page.
3093
3094 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
3095 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
3096 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
3097 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
3098DOC_END
3099
3100NAME: email_err_data
3101COMMENT: on|off
3102TYPE: onoff
3103LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
3104DEFAULT: on
3105DOC_START
3106 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
3107 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7f7db318 3108 so that the email body contains the data.
cccac0a2 3109 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
3110DOC_END
3111
3112
3113NAME: deny_info
3114TYPE: denyinfo
3115LOC: Config.denyInfoList
3116DEFAULT: none
3117DOC_START
3118 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
3119 or deny_info http://... acl
3120 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
3121
3122 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
3123 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. A single ACL will cause
3124 the http_access check to fail. If a 'deny_info' line exists
7f7db318 3125 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
cccac0a2 3126
3127 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
3128 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
3129
7f7db318 3130 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
cccac0a2 3131 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
3132 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
3133
3134 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
3135 by specifying TCP_RESET.
3136DOC_END
3137
3138NAME: memory_pools
3139COMMENT: on|off
3140TYPE: onoff
3141DEFAULT: on
3142LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
3143DOC_START
3144 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
3145 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
3146 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
3147 routines, disable this.
3148DOC_END
3149
3150NAME: memory_pools_limit
3151COMMENT: (bytes)
3152TYPE: b_size_t
e838cf2f 3153DEFAULT: 5 MB
cccac0a2 3154LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
3155DOC_START
3156 Used only with memory_pools on:
3157 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
3158
3159 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
3160 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
3161 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
3162 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
3163 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
3164 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
3165 configuration will use less memory.
3166
3167 If not set (default) or set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it
3168 can. That is, there will be no limit on the total amount of memory
3169 used for safe-keeping.
3170
3171 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
3172 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
3173
3174 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
3175 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
3176 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
3177 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
3178DOC_END
3179
3180NAME: via
3181IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3182COMMENT: on|off
3183TYPE: onoff
3184DEFAULT: on
3185LOC: Config.onoff.via
3186DOC_START
3187 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3188 replies as required by RFC2616.
3189DOC_END
3190
3191NAME: forwarded_for
3192COMMENT: on|off
3193TYPE: onoff
3194DEFAULT: on
3195LOC: opt_forwarded_for
3196DOC_START
3197 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
3198 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
3199 this:
3200
3201 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
3202
3203 If you disable this, it will appear as
3204
3205 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
3206DOC_END
3207
3208NAME: log_icp_queries
3209COMMENT: on|off
3210TYPE: onoff
3211DEFAULT: on
3212LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
3213DOC_START
3214 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
3215 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
3216 up or to simplify log analysis.
3217DOC_END
3218
3219NAME: icp_hit_stale
3220COMMENT: on|off
3221TYPE: onoff
3222DEFAULT: off
3223LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
3224DOC_START
3225 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
3226 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
3227 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7f7db318 3228 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
cccac0a2 3229 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7f7db318 3230 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
cccac0a2 3231 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
3232DOC_END
3233
3234
3235NAME: minimum_direct_hops
3236TYPE: int
3237DEFAULT: 4
3238LOC: Config.minDirectHops
3239DOC_START
3240 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3241 which are no more than this many hops away.
3242DOC_END
3243
3244NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
3245TYPE: int
3246DEFAULT: 400
3247LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
3248DOC_START
3249 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3250 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
3251DOC_END
3252
3253NAME: cachemgr_passwd
3254TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
3255DEFAULT: none
3256LOC: Config.passwd_list
3257DOC_START
3258 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
3259
3260 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
3261
3262 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
3263 5min
3264 60min
3265 asndb
3266 authenticator
3267 cbdata
3268 client_list
3269 comm_incoming
3270 config *
3271 counters
3272 delay
3273 digest_stats
3274 dns
3275 events
3276 filedescriptors
3277 fqdncache
3278 histograms
3279 http_headers
3280 info
3281 io
3282 ipcache
3283 mem
3284 menu
3285 netdb
3286 non_peers
3287 objects
3288 offline_toggle *
3289 pconn
3290 peer_select
3291 redirector
3292 refresh
3293 server_list
3294 shutdown *
3295 store_digest
3296 storedir
3297 utilization
3298 via_headers
3299 vm_objects
3300
3301 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
3302 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
3303
3304 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
3305 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
3306 password to "none".
3307
3308 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
3309
3310Example:
3311 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
3312 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
3313 cachemgr_passwd disable all
3314DOC_END
3315
3316NAME: store_avg_object_size
3317COMMENT: (kbytes)
3318TYPE: kb_size_t
3319DEFAULT: 13 KB
3320LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3321DOC_START
3322 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3323 cache can hold. See doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt. The default is
3324 13 KB.
3325DOC_END
3326
3327NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3328TYPE: int
3329DEFAULT: 20
3330LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3331DOC_START
3332 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3333 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3334 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 50.
3335DOC_END
3336
3337NAME: client_db
3338COMMENT: on|off
3339TYPE: onoff
3340DEFAULT: on
3341LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
3342DOC_START
7f7db318 3343 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
cccac0a2 3344 turn off client_db here.
3345DOC_END
3346
3347
3348NAME: netdb_low
3349TYPE: int
3350DEFAULT: 900
3351LOC: Config.Netdb.low
3352DOC_NONE
3353
3354NAME: netdb_high
3355TYPE: int
3356DEFAULT: 1000
3357LOC: Config.Netdb.high
3358DOC_START
3359 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
3360 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
3361 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
3362 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
3363DOC_END
3364
3365
3366NAME: netdb_ping_period
3367TYPE: time_t
3368LOC: Config.Netdb.period
3369DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3370DOC_START
3371 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
3372 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
3373 network. The default is five minutes.
3374DOC_END
3375
3376
3377NAME: query_icmp
3378COMMENT: on|off
3379TYPE: onoff
3380DEFAULT: off
3381LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
3382DOC_START
3383 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
3384 replies, enable this option.
3385
3386 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 3387 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
3388 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 3389 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
3390 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
3391 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
3392 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
3393 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
3394DOC_END
3395
3396NAME: test_reachability
3397COMMENT: on|off
3398TYPE: onoff
3399DEFAULT: off
3400LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
3401DOC_START
3402 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
3403 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
3404 database, or has a zero RTT.
3405DOC_END
3406
3407NAME: buffered_logs
3408COMMENT: on|off
3409TYPE: onoff
3410DEFAULT: off
3411LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3412DOC_START
3413 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3414 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3415 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3416 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3417 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3418DOC_END
3419
3420NAME: reload_into_ims
3421IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3422COMMENT: on|off
3423TYPE: onoff
3424DEFAULT: off
3425LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
3426DOC_START
3427 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
3428 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
3429 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
3430 feature could make you liable for problems which it
3431 causes.
7f7db318 3432
cccac0a2 3433 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
3434DOC_END
3435
3436NAME: always_direct
3437TYPE: acl_access
3438LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
3439DEFAULT: none
3440DOC_START
3441 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3442
3443 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
3444 ALWAYS be forwarded directly to origin servers. For example,
3445 to always directly forward requests for local servers use
3446 something like:
3447
3448 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
3449 always_direct allow local-servers
3450
3451 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
3452
3453 acl FTP proto FTP
3454 always_direct allow FTP
3455
3456 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
3457 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
3458 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
3459 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
3460 some other rule. Example:
3461
3462 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3463 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3464 always_direct deny local-external
3465 always_direct allow local-servers
3466
3467 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
3468 and local_ip.
3469DOC_END
3470
3471NAME: never_direct
3472TYPE: acl_access
3473LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
3474DEFAULT: none
3475DOC_START
3476 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3477
3478 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
3479 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
3480
3481 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
3482 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
3483 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
3484 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
3485
3486 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3487 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
3488 never_direct deny local-servers
3489 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3490
3491 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
f939c0ca 3492 servers inside the firewall use something like:
cccac0a2 3493
3494 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
3495 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3496 always_direct deny local-external
3497 always_direct allow local-intranet
3498 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3499
cccac0a2 3500 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
3501 and firewall_ip.
3502DOC_END
3503
3504NAME: header_access
3505IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3506TYPE: http_header_access[]
3507LOC: Config.header_access
3508DEFAULT: none
3509DOC_START
3510 Usage: header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3511
3512 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3513 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3514 causes.
3515
3516 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3517 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3518 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3519 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3520 mangling.
3521
3522 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3523 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3524 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3525
3526 For example, to achieve the same behaviour as the old
3527 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3528
3529 header_access From deny all
3530 header_access Referer deny all
3531 header_access Server deny all
3532 header_access User-Agent deny all
3533 header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3534 header_access Link deny all
3535
3536 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3537 you should use:
3538
3539 header_access Allow allow all
3540 header_access Authorization allow all
3541 header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3542 header_access Cache-Control allow all
3543 header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3544 header_access Content-Length allow all
3545 header_access Content-Type allow all
3546 header_access Date allow all
3547 header_access Expires allow all
3548 header_access Host allow all
3549 header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3550 header_access Last-Modified allow all
3551 header_access Location allow all
3552 header_access Pragma allow all
3553 header_access Accept allow all
3554 header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3555 header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3556 header_access Accept-Language allow all
3557 header_access Content-Language allow all
3558 header_access Mime-Version allow all
3559 header_access Retry-After allow all
3560 header_access Title allow all
3561 header_access Connection allow all
3562 header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3563 header_access All deny all
3564
3565 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3566 performed).
3567DOC_END
3568
3569NAME: header_replace
3570IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3571TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3572LOC: Config.header_access
3573DEFAULT: none
3574DOC_START
3575 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3576 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
3577
3578 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3579 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3580 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3581 option.
3582
3583 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3584DOC_END
3585
3586NAME: icon_directory
3587TYPE: string
3588LOC: Config.icons.directory
3589DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3590DOC_START
3591 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
3592 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3593DOC_END
3594
e72a0ec0 3595NAME: short_icon_urls
3596TYPE: onoff
3597LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
3598DEFAULT: on
3599DOC_START
7f7db318 3600 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
e72a0ec0 3601 If disabled it will revert to the old behaviour of including
3602 it's own name and port in the URL.
3603
3604 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7f7db318 3605 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
e72a0ec0 3606DOC_END
3607
cccac0a2 3608NAME: error_directory
3609TYPE: string
3610LOC: Config.errorDirectory
3611DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
3612DOC_START
3613 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
3614 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
3615 language or company copy the template English files to another
3616 directory and point this tag at them.
3617DOC_END
3618
3619NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
3620TYPE: int
3621LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
4ed0e075 3622DEFAULT: 1
cccac0a2 3623DOC_START
3624 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
3625 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
3626 each address is tried once).
3627
4ed0e075 3628 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
cccac0a2 3629 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
3630 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
4ed0e075 3631
3632 Note: This is in addition to the request reforwarding which
3633 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
cccac0a2 3634DOC_END
3635
3636NAME: snmp_port
3637TYPE: ushort
3638LOC: Config.Port.snmp
3639DEFAULT: 3401
3640IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3641DOC_START
3642 Squid can now serve statistics and status information via SNMP.
3643 By default it listens to port 3401 on the machine. If you don't
3644 wish to use SNMP, set this to "0".
4ed0e075 3645
7f7db318 3646 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4ed0e075 3647 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
3648 acts on cachable requests.
cccac0a2 3649DOC_END
3650
3651NAME: snmp_access
3652TYPE: acl_access
3653LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
3654DEFAULT: none
3655DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3656IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3657DOC_START
3658 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
3659
3660 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3661 usage:
3662
3663 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3664
3665Example:
3666 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3667 snmp_access deny all
3668DOC_END
3669
3670NAME: snmp_incoming_address
3671TYPE: address
3672LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
3673DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3674IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3675DOC_NONE
3676NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
3677TYPE: address
3678LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
3679DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3680IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3681DOC_START
3682 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
3683
3684 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
3685 messages from SNMP agents.
3686 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
3687 agents.
3688
3689 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
3690 available network interfaces.
3691
3692 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 3693 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 3694 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
3695 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
3696
3697 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
3698 the same value since they both use port 3401.
3699DOC_END
3700
3701NAME: as_whois_server
3702TYPE: string
3703LOC: Config.as_whois_server
3704DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
3705DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
3706DOC_START
3707 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
3708 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
3709DOC_END
3710
3711NAME: wccp_router
3712TYPE: address
3713LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3714DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3715IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3716DOC_START
3717 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3718 Squid. Setting the 'wccp_router' to 0.0.0.0 (the default)
3719 disables WCCP.
3720DOC_END
3721
3722NAME: wccp_version
3723TYPE: int
3724LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3725DEFAULT: 4
3726IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3727DOC_START
3728 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 only supports WCCP
3729 version 3. If you're using that version of IOS, change
3730 this value to 3.
3731DOC_END
3732
3733NAME: wccp_incoming_address
3734TYPE: address
3735LOC: Config.Wccp.incoming
3736DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3737IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3738DOC_NONE
3739NAME: wccp_outgoing_address
3740TYPE: address
3741LOC: Config.Wccp.outgoing
3742DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3743IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3744DOC_START
3745 wccp_incoming_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3746 messages to be received on only one
3747 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3748 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3749 have, or if you know you have only one
3750 interface.
3751
3752 wccp_outgoing_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3753 messages to be sent out on only one
3754 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3755 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3756 have, or if you know you have only one
3757 interface.
3758
3759 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
3760
3761 NOTE, wccp_incoming_address and wccp_outgoing_address can not have
3762 the same value since they both use port 2048.
3763DOC_END
0976f8db 3764
0976f8db 3765
cccac0a2 3766COMMENT_START
3767 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS (all require DELAY_POOLS compilation option)
3768 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3769COMMENT_END
3770
3771NAME: delay_pools
3772TYPE: delay_pool_count
3773DEFAULT: 0
3774IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3775LOC: Config.Delay
3776DOC_START
3777 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3778 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3779 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3780DOC_END
3781
3782NAME: delay_class
3783TYPE: delay_pool_class
3784DEFAULT: none
3785IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3786LOC: Config.Delay
3787DOC_START
3788 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3789 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3790 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3791 and here would be:
3792
3793Example:
3794 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3795 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3796 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3797 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3798 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3799
3800 The delay pool classes are:
3801
3802 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3803 bucket.
3804
3805 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3806 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3807 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3808
3809 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3810 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3811 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3812 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3813 32 of the IP address.
7f7db318 3814
3815 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
cccac0a2 3816 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3817 only takes effect if the username is established
3818 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3819 http_access rules.
3820
7f7db318 3821 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
cccac0a2 3822 external_acl's tag= reply).
3823
3824 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3825 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3826 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3827 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3828DOC_END
3829
3830NAME: delay_access
3831TYPE: delay_pool_access
3832DEFAULT: none
3833IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3834LOC: Config.Delay
3835DOC_START
3836 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3837 The first matched delay pool is always used, i.e., if a request falls
3838 into delay pool number one, no more delay are checked, otherwise the
3839 rest are checked in order of their delay pool number until they have
3840 all been checked. For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3841 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3842
3843Example:
3844 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3845 delay_access 1 deny all
3846 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3847 delay_access 2 deny all
3848 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3849DOC_END
3850
3851NAME: delay_parameters
3852TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3853DEFAULT: none
3854IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3855LOC: Config.Delay
3856DOC_START
3857 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3858 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3859 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3860
3861delay_parameters pool aggregate
3862
3863 For a class 2 delay pool:
3864
3865delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3866
3867 For a class 3 delay pool:
3868
3869delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3870
3871 For a class 4 delay pool:
3872
3873delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3874
3875 For a class 5 delay pool:
3876
3877delay_parameters pool tag
3878
3879 The variables here are:
3880
3881 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3882 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3883 delay_class lines.
3884
3885 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3886 (class 1, 2, 3).
3887
3888 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3889 buckets (class 2, 3).
3890
3891 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3892 (class 3).
3893
3894 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3895 (class 4).
3896
3897 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3898 (class 5).
3899
3900 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3901 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3902 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3903 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3904
3905 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3906 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3907 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3908
3909delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3910
3911 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3912
3913 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3914 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3915 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3916 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3917 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3918 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3919 large downloads more significantly:
3920
3921delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3922
3923 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3924
3925 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3926 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
7f7db318 3927
cccac0a2 3928delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3929DOC_END
3930
3931NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3932COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3933TYPE: ushort
3934DEFAULT: 50
3935IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3936LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3937DOC_START
3938 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3939 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3940 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3941 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3942 "seen" by squid).
3943DOC_END
3944
3945NAME: incoming_icp_average
3946TYPE: int
3947DEFAULT: 6
3948LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
3949DOC_NONE
3950
3951NAME: incoming_http_average
3952TYPE: int
3953DEFAULT: 4
3954LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
3955DOC_NONE
3956
3957NAME: incoming_dns_average
3958TYPE: int
3959DEFAULT: 4
3960LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
3961DOC_NONE
3962
3963NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
3964TYPE: int
3965DEFAULT: 8
3966LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
3967DOC_NONE
3968
3969NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
3970TYPE: int
3971DEFAULT: 8
3972LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
3973DOC_NONE
3974
3975NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
3976TYPE: int
3977DEFAULT: 8
3978LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
3979DOC_START
3980 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
3981 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
3982 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
3983DOC_END
3984
3985NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3986TYPE: int
3987LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3988DEFAULT: 0
3989DOC_START
3990 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3991 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3992 descriptors are open.
3993
3994 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
3995DOC_END
3996
3997NAME: offline_mode
3998TYPE: onoff
3999LOC: Config.onoff.offline
4000DEFAULT: off
4001DOC_START
4002 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
4003 objects.
4004DOC_END
4005
4006NAME: uri_whitespace
4007TYPE: uri_whitespace
4008LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
4009DEFAULT: strip
4010DOC_START
4011 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
4012 URI. Options:
4013
4014 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
4015 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
4016 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
4017 Request" message.
4018 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
4019 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
4020 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
4021 are in use.
4022 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
4023 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
4024 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
4025 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
4026 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
4027 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
4028 violation.
4029DOC_END
4030
4031NAME: broken_posts
4032TYPE: acl_access
4033DEFAULT: none
4034LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4035DOC_START
4036 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4037 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4038
4039 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4040 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4041
4042 Quote from RFC 2068 section 4.1 on this matter:
4043
4044 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4045 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4046 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4047 a request with an extra CRLF.
4048
4049Example:
4050 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4051 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4052DOC_END
4053
4054NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4055IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4056TYPE: address
4057LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4058DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4059DOC_START
4060 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4061 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
4062
4063 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4064 certain you understand what you are doing.
4065DOC_END
4066
4067NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4068IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_TTL
4069TYPE: ushort
4070LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4071DEFAULT: 16
4072DOC_START
4073 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4074 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4075 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4076DOC_END
4077
4078NAME: mcast_miss_port
4079IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4080TYPE: ushort
4081LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4082DEFAULT: 3135
4083DOC_START
4084 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4085 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4086DOC_END
4087
4088NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4089IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4090TYPE: string
4091LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4092DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4093DOC_START
4094 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4095 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4096DOC_END
4097
4098NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
4099TYPE: onoff
4100LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
4101DEFAULT: on
4102DOC_START
4103 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4104 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cachable request type) direct
4105 to origin servers.
4106
7f7db318 4107 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
cccac0a2 4108 requests to parents.
4109
4110 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4111 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4112 ratio.
4113
7f7db318 4114 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
cccac0a2 4115 this directive.
4116DOC_END
4117
4118NAME: prefer_direct
4119TYPE: onoff
4120LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
4121DEFAULT: off
4122DOC_START
7f7db318 4123 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
cccac0a2 4124 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7f7db318 4125 going direct fails set this to on.
cccac0a2 4126
4127 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4128 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4129 fails.
4130DOC_END
4131
4132NAME: strip_query_terms
4133TYPE: onoff
4134LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
4135DEFAULT: on
4136DOC_START
4137 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
4138 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
4139DOC_END
4140
4141NAME: coredump_dir
4142TYPE: string
4143LOC: Config.coredump_dir
4144DEFAULT: none
4145DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4146DOC_START
4147 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4148 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4149 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4150 and coredump files will be left there.
4151
4152NOCOMMENT_START
5ff76111 4153# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
cccac0a2 4154coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4155NOCOMMENT_END
4156DOC_END
4157
4158NAME: redirector_bypass
4159TYPE: onoff
4160LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4161DEFAULT: off
4162DOC_START
4163 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4164 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4165 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4166 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4167 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4168 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4169 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
7f7db318 4170 users may have access to pages they should not
cccac0a2 4171 be allowed to request.
4172DOC_END
4173
4174NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
4175TYPE: onoff
4176LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
4177DEFAULT: on
4178DOC_START
4179 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7f7db318 4180 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
cccac0a2 4181 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
4182 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
4183 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
4184DOC_END
4185
4186NAME: digest_generation
4187IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4188TYPE: onoff
4189LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4190DEFAULT: on
4191DOC_START
4192 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4193 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
4194 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
4195DOC_END
4196
4197NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4198IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4199TYPE: int
4200LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4201DEFAULT: 5
4202DOC_START
4203 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4204 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4205 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4206DOC_END
4207
4208NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4209IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4210COMMENT: (seconds)
4211TYPE: time_t
4212LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4213DEFAULT: 1 hour
4214DOC_START
4215 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
4216DOC_END
4217
4218NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4219COMMENT: (seconds)
4220IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4221TYPE: time_t
4222LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4223DEFAULT: 1 hour
4224DOC_START
4225 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
4226 disk.
4227DOC_END
4228
4229NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4230COMMENT: (bytes)
4231TYPE: b_size_t
4232IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4233LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4234DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4235DOC_START
4236 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4237 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4238 default swap page.
4239DOC_END
4240
4241NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4242COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4243IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4244TYPE: int
4245LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4246DEFAULT: 10
4247DOC_START
4248 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4249 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4250DOC_END
4251
4252NAME: chroot
4253TYPE: string
4254LOC: Config.chroot_dir
4255DEFAULT: none
4256DOC_START
4257 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
4258 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
7f7db318 4259 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
cccac0a2 4260 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an
4261 error.
4262DOC_END
4263
4264NAME: client_persistent_connections
4265TYPE: onoff
4266LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4267DEFAULT: on
4268DOC_NONE
4269
4270NAME: server_persistent_connections
4271TYPE: onoff
4272LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4273DEFAULT: on
4274DOC_START
4275 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4276 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4277 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4278 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4279DOC_END
4280
a12a049a 4281NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
4282TYPE: onoff
4283LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
4284DEFAULT: on
4285DOC_START
4286 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
4287 found not to preserve user session state across requests
4288 to different IP addresses.
4289
4290 By default Squid rotates IP's per request. By disabling
4291 this directive only connection failure triggers rotation.
4292DOC_END
4293
cccac0a2 4294NAME: pipeline_prefetch
4295TYPE: onoff
4296LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
4297DEFAULT: off
4298DOC_START
4299 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
4300 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
4301 up to two requests in parallell from a pipeline.
4302
4303 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
4304 reasons.
4305DOC_END
4306
4307NAME: extension_methods
4308TYPE: wordlist
4309LOC: Config.ext_methods
4310DEFAULT: none
4311DOC_START
4312 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
4313 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
4314DOC_END
4315
4316NAME: request_entities
4317TYPE: onoff
4318LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4319DEFAULT: off
4320DOC_START
4321 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4322 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4323 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4324
4325 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4326 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests.
4327DOC_END
4328
4329NAME: high_response_time_warning
4330TYPE: int
4331COMMENT: (msec)
4332LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
4333DEFAULT: 0
4334DOC_START
4335 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
4336 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
4337 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
4338DOC_END
4339
4340NAME: high_page_fault_warning
4341TYPE: int
4342LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
4343DEFAULT: 0
4344DOC_START
4345 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
4346 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4347 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
4348 per second.
4349DOC_END
4350
4351NAME: high_memory_warning
4352TYPE: b_size_t
4353LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
4354DEFAULT: 0
4355DOC_START
4356 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
4357 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4358 the administrators attention.
4359DOC_END
4360
4361NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4362TYPE: string
4363LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4364DEFAULT: least-load
4365DOC_START
4366 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
4367DOC_END
4368
4369NAME: forward_log
4370IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
4371TYPE: string
4372DEFAULT: none
4373LOC: Config.Log.forward
4374DOC_START
4375 Logs the server-side requests.
4376
4377 This is currently work in progress.
4378DOC_END
4379
4380NAME: ie_refresh
4381COMMENT: on|off
4382TYPE: onoff
4383LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4384DEFAULT: off
4385DOC_START
4386 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4387 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4388 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4389 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4390 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4391 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4392 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
7f7db318 4393 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
cccac0a2 4394 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4395 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4396 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4397 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4398 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4399 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4400 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4401 force fresh content.
4402DOC_END
4403
4404NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4405COMMENT: on|off
4406TYPE: onoff
4407LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4408DEFAULT: off
4409DOC_START
4410 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4411 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4412 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4413 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4414 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4415 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
4416 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4417DOC_END
4418
4419NAME: sleep_after_fork
4420COMMENT: (microseconds)
4421TYPE: int
4422LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
4423DEFAULT: 0
4424DOC_START
4425 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
4426 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
4427 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
4428 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7f7db318 4429 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
4430 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
cccac0a2 4431 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
4432 until all the child processes have been started.
4433DOC_END
4434
4435EOF