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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
5529ca8a 103 disable-pmtu-discovery=
6845f129 104 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
105 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
106 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
107 support is enabled.
108 always disable always PMTU discovery.
5529ca8a 109
110 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies Path-MTU
111 discovery can not work on traffic towards the clients. This is
112 the case when the intercepting device does not fully track
113 connections and fails to forward ICMP must fragment messages
114 to the cache server. If you have such setup and experience that
115 certain clients sporadically hang or never complete requests set
116 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
117
cccac0a2 118 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
7f7db318 119 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
cccac0a2 120 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
121 visible on the internal address.
122NOCOMMENT_START
123# Squid normally listens to port 3128
58c1507a 124http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
cccac0a2 125NOCOMMENT_END
126DOC_END
127
128NAME: https_port
129IFDEF: USE_SSL
130TYPE: https_port_list
131DEFAULT: none
132LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
133DOC_START
6845f129 134 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
cccac0a2 135
6845f129 136 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
137 requests.
cccac0a2 138
6845f129 139 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
140 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
141 accelerator level.
cccac0a2 142
143 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
144 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
b8c0c06d 145
cccac0a2 146 Options:
147
148 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
116c6cca 149 this port
cccac0a2 150
151 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests
116c6cca 152 with. Defaults to https
cccac0a2 153
154 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format)
7f7db318 155
cccac0a2 156 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
157 if not specified, the certificate file is
158 assumed to be a combined certificate and
159 key file
160
161 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
162 1 automatic (default)
163 2 SSLv2 only
164 3 SSLv3 only
165 4 TLSv1 only
166
167 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers
168
5ac1a5b3 169 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
cccac0a2 170 being:
171 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
172 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
173 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
174 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
175 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
176 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
116c6cca 177 documentation for a complete list of options
cccac0a2 178
179 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
180 requesting a client certificate
181
182 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
183 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
116c6cca 184 clientca will be used
cccac0a2 185
186 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
a82a4fe4 187 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates
188
189 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
190 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
191 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
cccac0a2 192
193 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
194 DH key exchanges
195
196 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
197 DELAYED_AUTH
198 Don't request client certificates
199 immediately, but wait until acl processing
a82a4fe4 200 requires a certificate (not yet implemented)
7f7db318 201 NO_DEFAULT_CA
a82a4fe4 202 Don't use the default CA lists built in
116c6cca 203 to OpenSSL
b13877cc 204 NO_SESSION_REUSE
205 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
206 will result in a new SSL session.
a82a4fe4 207 VERIFY_CRL
208 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
209 certificates
210 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
211 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
212 client certificate chain
116c6cca 213
6b2936d5 214 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
215
116c6cca 216 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
217 accelerator directives
218
219 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
220 domain support
221
222 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
223
224 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
225 than the https_port number
cccac0a2 226
227DOC_END
228
229NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
230IFDEF: USE_SSL
231TYPE: onoff
232DEFAULT: off
233LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
234DOC_START
235 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
236 messages.
237DOC_END
238
239NAME: ssl_engine
240IFDEF: USE_SSL
241TYPE: string
242LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
243DEFAULT: none
244DOC_START
245 The openssl engine to use. You will need to set this if you
246 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
247DOC_END
248
249NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
250IFDEF: USE_SSL
251DEFAULT: none
252LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
253TYPE: string
254DOC_START
255 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
256DOC_END
257
258NAME: sslproxy_client_key
259IFDEF: USE_SSL
260DEFAULT: none
261LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
262TYPE: string
263DOC_START
264 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
265DOC_END
266
267NAME: sslproxy_version
268IFDEF: USE_SSL
269DEFAULT: 1
270LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
271TYPE: int
272DOC_START
273 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
274DOC_END
275
276NAME: sslproxy_options
277IFDEF: USE_SSL
278DEFAULT: none
279LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
280TYPE: string
281DOC_START
282 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
283DOC_END
284
285NAME: sslproxy_cipher
286IFDEF: USE_SSL
287DEFAULT: none
288LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
289TYPE: string
290DOC_START
291 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
292DOC_END
293
294NAME: sslproxy_cafile
295IFDEF: USE_SSL
296DEFAULT: none
297LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
298TYPE: string
299DOC_START
300 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
301 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
302DOC_END
303
304NAME: sslproxy_capath
305IFDEF: USE_SSL
306DEFAULT: none
307LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
308TYPE: string
309DOC_START
310 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
311 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
312DOC_END
313
314NAME: sslproxy_flags
315IFDEF: USE_SSL
316DEFAULT: none
317LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
318TYPE: string
319DOC_START
320 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
321 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
322 verify.
323 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
324 to OpenSSL.
325DOC_END
326
307b83b7 327NAME: sslpassword_program
328IFDEF: USE_SSL
329DEFAULT: none
330LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
331TYPE: string
332DOC_START
333 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
334 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
335 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
336 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
337DOC_END
338
cccac0a2 339NAME: icp_port udp_port
340TYPE: ushort
341DEFAULT: 0
342LOC: Config.Port.icp
343DOC_START
344 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
345 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
346 Default is disabled (0).
347NOCOMMENT_START
58c1507a 348icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 349NOCOMMENT_END
350DOC_END
351
352NAME: htcp_port
353IFDEF: USE_HTCP
354TYPE: ushort
355DEFAULT: 4827
356LOC: Config.Port.htcp
357DOC_START
358 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
359 and from neighbor caches. Default is 4827. To disable use
360 "0".
361DOC_END
362
363
364NAME: mcast_groups
365TYPE: wordlist
366LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
367DEFAULT: none
368DOC_START
369 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
370 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
371
372 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
373 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
374 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
375 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
376 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
377 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
378 receive replies from multicast group members.
379
380 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
381 is already in use by another group of caches.
382
383 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
384 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
385
386 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
387
388 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
389DOC_END
390
391
392NAME: udp_incoming_address
393TYPE: address
394LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
395DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
396DOC_NONE
397
398NAME: udp_outgoing_address
399TYPE: address
400LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
401DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
402DOC_START
403 udp_incoming_address is used for the ICP socket receiving packets
404 from other caches.
405 udp_outgoing_address is used for ICP packets sent out to other
406 caches.
407
408 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
409
f939c0ca 410 A udp_incoming_address value of 0.0.0.0 indicates Squid
411 should listen for UDP messages on all available interfaces.
cccac0a2 412
413 If udp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 414 it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 415 change this if you want to have ICP queries sent using another
416 address than where this Squid listens for ICP queries from other
417 caches.
418
419 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
420 have the same value since they both use port 3130.
421DOC_END
9e7dbc51 422
cccac0a2 423COMMENT_START
424 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
425 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
426COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 427
cccac0a2 428NAME: cache_peer
429TYPE: peer
430DEFAULT: none
431LOC: Config.peers
432DOC_START
433 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
9e7dbc51 434
cccac0a2 435 cache_peer hostname type http_port icp_port [options]
0fdafae7 436
cccac0a2 437 For example,
d1b63fc8 438
cccac0a2 439 # proxy icp
440 # hostname type port port options
441 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
442 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
443 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
444 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
445
446 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
447
448 proxy_port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
449 requests.
450
451 icp_port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
452 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
453 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
454 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
455 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
456
457 options: proxy-only
458 weight=n
459 basetime=n
460 ttl=n
461 no-query
462 background-ping
463 default
464 round-robin
465 weighted-round-robin
466 carp
467 multicast-responder
468 closest-only
469 no-digest
470 no-netdb-exchange
471 no-delay
472 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
473 connect-timeout=nn
474 digest-url=url
475 allow-miss
476 max-conn
477 htcp
527ee50d 478 htcp-oldsquid
cccac0a2 479 originserver
480 name=xxx
481 forceddomain=name
482 ssl
483 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
484 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
485 sslversion=1|2|3|4
486 sslcipher=...
487 ssloptions=...
488 front-end-https[=on|auto]
b8c0c06d 489
7f7db318 490 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
cccac0a2 491 from this cache should not be saved locally.
492
493 use 'weight=n' to specify a weighted parent.
494 The weight must be an integer. The default weight
495 is 1, larger weights are favored more.
496
497 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
498 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
499 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
500 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
7f7db318 501 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 502
503 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
504 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
505 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
506 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
507 hosts, you must configure other group members as
508 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
509
510 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
511 neighbor.
512
513 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
7f7db318 514 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
515 round trip time updated and is usually used in
cccac0a2 516 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
517
518 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
519 be used as a "last-resort." You should probably
520 only use 'default' in situations where you cannot
521 use ICP with your parent cache(s).
522
523 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
524 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
525 absence of any ICP queries.
526
7f7db318 527 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
528 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
529 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
530 time. Closer parents are used more often.
cccac0a2 531 Usually used for background-ping parents.
532
533 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
7f7db318 534 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
cccac0a2 535 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
536 balancing hash function based on their weigth.
537
7f7db318 538 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
cccac0a2 539 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
540 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
541 will be accepted from it.
542
543 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
544 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
545 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
546
547 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
548 this neighbor.
549
550 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
551 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
552
553 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
554 from influencing the delay pools.
555
556 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
557 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
558 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
7f7db318 559 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
cccac0a2 560
561 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
65fca573 562 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
563 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
564 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
565 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
566 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
567 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
568 one proxy login.
7f7db318 569 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
cccac0a2 570 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
571
572 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
573 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
574 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
575 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
576 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
577 information which is added to the username. This can
578 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
579 the login=username:password option above.
580
581 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
582 specific connect timeout (also see the
583 peer_connect_timeout directive)
584
585 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
586 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
587 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
588 location.
589
590 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
591 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
592 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
593 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
594 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
595 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
596 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
597 source is a peer)
598
599 use 'max-conn' to limit the amount of connections Squid
600 may open to this peer.
601
602 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
603 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
604 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
d3803853 605
527ee50d 606 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
607
cccac0a2 608 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
609 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
610
611 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
7f7db318 612 host but different ports. This name can be used to
cccac0a2 613 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
614 directives.
615
616 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
617 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
618 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
619 name and using redirectors to feed this domainname
620 is not feasible.
621
7f7db318 622 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
cccac0a2 623 bs SSL/TLS encrypted.
624
625 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
626 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
627
628 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
629 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
7f7db318 630 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
cccac0a2 631 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
632
633 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
634 when connecting to this peer
635 1 = automatic (default)
636 2 = SSL v2 only
637 3 = SSL v3 only
638 4 = TLS v1 only
639
640 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL chipers
641 to use when connecting to this peer
642
643 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
644 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
645 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
646 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
647 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
648 a more complete list.
649
650 use cafile=... to specify a file containing additional
651 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
652
653 use capath=... to specify a directory containing additional
654 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
655
656 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
657 SSL implementation:
658 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
659 Accept certificates even if they fail to
660 verify.
7f7db318 661 NO_DEFAULT_CA
cccac0a2 662 Don't use the default CA list built in
663 to OpenSSL.
664 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
7f7db318 665 Don't verify the peer certificate
cccac0a2 666 matches the server name
667
668 use sslname= to specify the peer name as advertised
669 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
670 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
671 peer hostname will be used.
672
673 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
674 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend infront
675 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
7f7db318 676 on this header. If set to auto the header will
cccac0a2 677 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
678 URL.
679
680 NOTE: non-ICP neighbors must be specified as 'parent'.
681DOC_END
682
683NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
684TYPE: hostdomain
685DEFAULT: none
686LOC: none
687DOC_START
688 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
689 queried. Usage:
690
691 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
692 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
693
694 For example, specifying
695
696 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
697
698 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
699 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
700 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
7f7db318 701 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
cccac0a2 702 NOT in that domain.
703
704 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
705 either on the same or separate lines.
706 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
707 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
708 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
709 for all requests.
710 * There are no defaults.
711 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
712 section.
713DOC_END
714
715
716NAME: neighbor_type_domain
717TYPE: hostdomaintype
718DEFAULT: none
719LOC: none
720DOC_START
721 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
722
723 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
724 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
725 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
726 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
727 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
728 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
729
730EXAMPLE:
731 cache_peer parent cache.foo.org 3128 3130
732 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
733 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
734DOC_END
735
736NAME: icp_query_timeout
737COMMENT: (msec)
738DEFAULT: 0
739TYPE: int
740LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
741DOC_START
742 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
743 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
744 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
745 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
746 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
747 timeout (the old default), you would write:
748
749 icp_query_timeout 2000
750DOC_END
751
752NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
753COMMENT: (msec)
754DEFAULT: 2000
755TYPE: int
756LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
757DOC_START
758 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
759 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
760 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
761 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
762 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
763 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
764DOC_END
765
766NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
767COMMENT: (msec)
768DEFAULT: 5
769TYPE: int
770LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
771DOC_START
772 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
773 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
774 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
775 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
776 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
777 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
778 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
779DOC_END
780
781NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
782COMMENT: (msec)
783DEFAULT: 2000
784TYPE: int
785LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
786DOC_START
787 For Multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
788 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
789 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
790 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
791 seconds.
792DOC_END
793
794NAME: dead_peer_timeout
795COMMENT: (seconds)
796DEFAULT: 10 seconds
797TYPE: time_t
798LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
799DOC_START
800 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
801 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
802 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
803 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
804 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
805 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
806
807 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
808 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
809 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
810 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
811 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
812 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
813 instead of to your parents.
814DOC_END
815
816
817NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
818TYPE: wordlist
819DEFAULT: none
820LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
821DOC_START
822 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
823 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
824 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
825 list this option multiple times.
826NOCOMMENT_START
827#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
828hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
829NOCOMMENT_END
830DOC_END
934b03fc 831
6a566b9c 832
6192e873 833NAME: cache no_cache
cccac0a2 834TYPE: acl_access
835DEFAULT: none
836LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
837DOC_START
838 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
839 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
840 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
6a566b9c 841
cccac0a2 842 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
843 NOT be cached.
1e5562e3 844
6192e873 845 Default is to allow all to be cached
cccac0a2 846NOCOMMENT_START
847#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
848acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
6192e873 849cache deny QUERY
cccac0a2 850NOCOMMENT_END
851DOC_END
852
853NAME: background_ping_rate
854COMMENT: time-units
855TYPE: time_t
856DEFAULT: 10 seconds
857LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
858DOC_START
859 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
860 have background-ping set.
861DOC_END
1e5562e3 862
934b03fc 863
cccac0a2 864COMMENT_START
865 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE CACHE SIZE
866 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
867COMMENT_END
868
869NAME: cache_mem
870COMMENT: (bytes)
871TYPE: b_size_t
872DEFAULT: 8 MB
873LOC: Config.memMaxSize
874DOC_START
875 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
876 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
877 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
878 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
879
880 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
881 for:
882 * In-Transit objects
883 * Hot Objects
884 * Negative-Cached objects
885
886 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
887 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
888 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
889 priority.
890
891 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
892 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
893 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
894 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
895 not needed for in-transit objects.
896
897 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
898 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
899 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
900 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
901 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
902 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
903 objects.
904DOC_END
905
906
907NAME: cache_swap_low
908COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
909TYPE: int
910DEFAULT: 90
911LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
912DOC_NONE
913
914NAME: cache_swap_high
915COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
916TYPE: int
917DEFAULT: 95
918LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
919DOC_START
920
921 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
922 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
923 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
924 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
925 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
926 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
7f7db318 927
cccac0a2 928 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
929 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
930 numbers closer together.
931DOC_END
932
933NAME: maximum_object_size
934COMMENT: (bytes)
935TYPE: b_size_t
936DEFAULT: 4096 KB
937LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
938DOC_START
939 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
940 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
941 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
942 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
943 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
944 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
945
946 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
947 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
948 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
949DOC_END
950
951NAME: minimum_object_size
952COMMENT: (bytes)
953TYPE: b_size_t
954DEFAULT: 0 KB
955LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
956DOC_START
957 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
958 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
959 means there is no minimum.
960DOC_END
961
962NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
963COMMENT: (bytes)
964TYPE: b_size_t
965DEFAULT: 8 KB
966LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
967DOC_START
6845f129 968 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
969 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
970 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
971 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem .
cccac0a2 972DOC_END
973
974NAME: ipcache_size
975COMMENT: (number of entries)
976TYPE: int
977DEFAULT: 1024
978LOC: Config.ipcache.size
979DOC_NONE
980
981NAME: ipcache_low
982COMMENT: (percent)
983TYPE: int
984DEFAULT: 90
985LOC: Config.ipcache.low
986DOC_NONE
987
988NAME: ipcache_high
989COMMENT: (percent)
990TYPE: int
991DEFAULT: 95
992LOC: Config.ipcache.high
993DOC_START
994 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
995DOC_END
996
997NAME: fqdncache_size
998COMMENT: (number of entries)
999TYPE: int
1000DEFAULT: 1024
1001LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
1002DOC_START
1003 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
1004DOC_END
1005
1006NAME: cache_replacement_policy
1007TYPE: removalpolicy
1008LOC: Config.replPolicy
1009DEFAULT: lru
1010DOC_START
1011 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
1012 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
1013
1014 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
1015 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
1016 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
1017 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
1018
1019 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
1020
1021 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
1022
1023 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
1024 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
1025 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
1026 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
1027
1028 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
1029 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
1030 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
1031 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
1032
1033 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
1034 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
1035 replacement policies.
1036
1037 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1038 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1039 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
1040
1041 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1042 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1043 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
1044DOC_END
1045
1046NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1047TYPE: removalpolicy
1048LOC: Config.memPolicy
1049DEFAULT: lru
1050DOC_START
1051 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1052 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
1053
1054 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1055DOC_END
934b03fc 1056
1f7c9178 1057
cccac0a2 1058COMMENT_START
1059 LOGFILE PATHNAMES AND CACHE DIRECTORIES
1060 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1061COMMENT_END
9bc73deb 1062
cccac0a2 1063NAME: cache_dir
1064TYPE: cachedir
1065DEFAULT: none
1066DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1067LOC: Config.cacheSwap
1068DOC_START
1069 Usage:
7f7db318 1070
cccac0a2 1071 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
cf5cc17e 1072
cccac0a2 1073 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1074 cache among different disk partitions.
8e8d4f30 1075
cccac0a2 1076 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
5ac1a5b3 1077 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
cccac0a2 1078 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
934b03fc 1079
cccac0a2 1080 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1081 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
7f7db318 1082 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
cccac0a2 1083 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1084 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
1e5562e3 1085
cccac0a2 1086 The ufs store type:
1087
1088 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1089 been there.
1090
1091 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1092
1093 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1094 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1095 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1096 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1097 subtract 20% and use that value.
1098
1099 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1100 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
1101
1102 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1103 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1104 is 256.
1105
1106 The aufs store type:
1107
1108 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1109 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1110 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
1111
1112 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1113
1114 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1115
1116 The diskd store type:
1117
1118 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1119 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1120 disk-I/O.
1121
1122 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
1123
1124 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1125
1126 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1127 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1128 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
1129
1130 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1131 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
44f991b5 1132 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
cccac0a2 1133
af9ad249 1134 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1135 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1136 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1137 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1138 time.
1139
1a224843 1140 The coss store type:
1141
1142 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1143 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1144 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1145 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1146 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
7f7db318 1147 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1a224843 1148 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
1149
b8c0c06d 1150 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
c8f4eac4 1151 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
1152 this will be created by squid -z.
1153
cccac0a2 1154 Common options:
1155
1156 read-only, this cache_dir is read only.
1157
1158 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1159 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1160 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1161 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1162 ones with no max-size specification last.
1a224843 1163
7f7db318 1164 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1a224843 1165 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1166 option.
c8f4eac4 1167
1168 The null store type:
1169
1170 no options are allowed or required
cccac0a2 1171DOC_END
1172
1173
1174NAME: logformat
1175TYPE: logformat
1176LOC: Config.Log.logformats
1177DEFAULT: none
1178DOC_START
1179 Usage:
1180
1181 logformat <name> <format specification>
1182
1183 Defines an access log format.
1184
1185 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
7f7db318 1186
cccac0a2 1187 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
fa38076e 1188 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
cccac0a2 1189 as required according to their context and the output format
fa38076e 1190 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
1191 output format is desired.
cccac0a2 1192
1193 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
7f7db318 1194
fa38076e 1195 " output in quoted string format
1196 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1197 # output in URL quoted format
1198 ' output as-is
1199
cccac0a2 1200 - left aligned
7f7db318 1201 width field width. If starting with 0 the
cccac0a2 1202 output is zero padded
1203 {arg} argument such as header name etc
1204
1205 Format codes:
1206
1207 >a Client source IP address
1208 >A Client FQDN
44eb213b 1209 >p Client source port
cccac0a2 1210 <A Server IP address or peer name
1211 la Local IP address (http_port)
1212 lp Local port number (http_port)
1213 ts Seconds since epoch
1214 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1215 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1216 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1217 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1218 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1219 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1220 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1221 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1222 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1223 as for >h
1224 un User name
1225 ul User login
1226 ui User ident
1227 ue User from external acl
1228 Hs HTTP status code
1229 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1230 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1231 mt MIME content type
1232 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1233 ru Request URL
1234 rv Request protocol version
1235 et Tag returned by external acl
1236 ea Log string returned by external acl
1237 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
6845f129 1238 <sH Reply high offset sent
03b29b6c 1239 <sS Upstream object size
cccac0a2 1240 % a literal % character
1241
1242logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
1243logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
1244logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
1245logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
1246DOC_END
1247
1248NAME: access_log cache_access_log
1249TYPE: access_log
1250LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
1251DEFAULT: none
1252DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@
1253DOC_START
1254 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
1255 ICP request. The format is:
1256 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
1257 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
1258
1259 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
1260 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
1261 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
1262 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
7f7db318 1263
c33aa074 1264 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
1265 a logformat name should not be specified.
1266
9197cd13 1267 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
1268
1269 access_log syslog[:facility|priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
1270 where facility could be any of:
1271 LOG_AUTHPRIV, LOG_DAEMON, LOG_LOCAL0 .. LOG_LOCAL7 or LOG_USER.
1272
1273 And priority could be any of:
1274 LOG_ERR, LOG_WARNING, LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO, LOG_DEBUG.
cccac0a2 1275DOC_END
1276
1277
1278NAME: cache_log
1279TYPE: string
1280DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
1281LOC: Config.Log.log
1282DOC_START
1283 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
1284 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
1285 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
1286DOC_END
1287
1288
1289NAME: cache_store_log
1290TYPE: string
1291DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
1292LOC: Config.Log.store
1293DOC_START
1294 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
1295 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
1296 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
1297 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
1298 disable it.
1299DOC_END
1300
1301
e2529a2c 1302NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
cccac0a2 1303TYPE: string
1304LOC: Config.Log.swap
1305DEFAULT: none
1306DOC_START
e2529a2c 1307 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
1308 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
1309 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
cccac0a2 1310 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
1311 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
1312 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
1313 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
1314
7f7db318 1315 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
cccac0a2 1316 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
1317 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
1318 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
7f7db318 1319
cccac0a2 1320 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
7f7db318 1321 these swap logs will have names such as:
cccac0a2 1322
1323 cache_swap_log.00
1324 cache_swap_log.01
1325 cache_swap_log.02
1326
1327 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
1328 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
1329 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
7f7db318 1330 lines in this file, these log files will NOT correspond to
cccac0a2 1331 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
7f7db318 1332 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
cccac0a2 1333 better to keep these log files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
1334DOC_END
1335
1336
1337NAME: emulate_httpd_log
1338COMMENT: on|off
1339TYPE: onoff
1340DEFAULT: off
1341LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
1342DOC_START
1343 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
1344 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
1345 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
1346 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
7f7db318 1347 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
cccac0a2 1348DOC_END
1349
1350NAME: log_ip_on_direct
1351COMMENT: on|off
1352TYPE: onoff
1353DEFAULT: on
1354LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
1355DOC_START
1356 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
1357 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
1358 prefer the old way set this to off.
1359DOC_END
1360
1361NAME: mime_table
1362TYPE: string
1363DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
1364LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
1365DOC_START
1366 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
1367 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
1368 information if you do.
1369DOC_END
1370
1371
1372NAME: log_mime_hdrs
1373COMMENT: on|off
1374TYPE: onoff
1375LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
1376DEFAULT: off
1377DOC_START
1378 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
1379 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
1380 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
1381 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
1382 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
1383DOC_END
1384
1385
1386NAME: useragent_log
1387TYPE: string
1388LOC: Config.Log.useragent
1389DEFAULT: none
1390IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
1391DOC_START
1392 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
1393 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
1394 is disabled.
1395DOC_END
1396
1397
1398NAME: referer_log
1399TYPE: string
1400LOC: Config.Log.referer
1401DEFAULT: none
1402IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
1403DOC_START
1404 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
1405 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
1406DOC_END
1407
1408
1409NAME: pid_filename
1410TYPE: string
1411DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
1412LOC: Config.pidFilename
1413DOC_START
1414 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
1415DOC_END
1416
1417
1418NAME: debug_options
d9e04dc7 1419TYPE: debug
cccac0a2 1420DEFAULT: ALL,1
1421LOC: Config.debugOptions
1422DOC_START
1423 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
1424 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
1425 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
1426 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
1427 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
1428 "ALL,1".
1429DOC_END
1430
1431
1432NAME: log_fqdn
1433COMMENT: on|off
1434TYPE: onoff
1435DEFAULT: off
1436LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
1437DOC_START
1438 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
1439 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
1440 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
1441 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
1442 browsing.
1443DOC_END
1444
1445
1446NAME: client_netmask
1447TYPE: address
1448LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
1449DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
1450DOC_START
1451 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
1452 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
1453 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
1454 the last digit set to '0'.
1455DOC_END
0976f8db 1456
0976f8db 1457
cccac0a2 1458COMMENT_START
1459 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
1460 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1461COMMENT_END
1462
1463NAME: ftp_user
1464TYPE: string
1465DEFAULT: Squid@
1466LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
1467DOC_START
1468 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
1469 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
1470 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
1471
7f7db318 1472 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
cccac0a2 1473 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
1474 depending on how the cache is used.
7f7db318 1475 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
cccac0a2 1476 (for example perl.com).
1477DOC_END
1478
1479NAME: ftp_list_width
1480TYPE: size_t
1481DEFAULT: 32
1482LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
1483DOC_START
1484 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
1485 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
1486 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
1487DOC_END
1488
1489NAME: ftp_passive
1490TYPE: onoff
1491DEFAULT: on
1492LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
1493DOC_START
1494 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
7f7db318 1495 connections, turn off this option.
cccac0a2 1496DOC_END
1497
1498NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
1499TYPE: onoff
1500DEFAULT: on
1501LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
1502DOC_START
1503 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
1504 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
1505 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
1506 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
7f7db318 1507 connection turn this off.
cccac0a2 1508DOC_END
1509
1510NAME: check_hostnames
1511TYPE: onoff
1512DEFAULT: on
1513LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
1514DOC_START
1515 For security and stability reasons Squid by default checks
1516 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you do not want
7f7db318 1517 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive off.
cccac0a2 1518DOC_END
1519
dad0fe12 1520NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
1521TYPE: onoff
1522DEFAULT: on
1523LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
1524DOC_START
1525The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
1526as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
5ac1a5b3 1527implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
dad0fe12 1528the FTP protocol.
1529
1530If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
7f7db318 1531path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
1532try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
dad0fe12 1533operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
1534is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
1535DOC_END
1536
cccac0a2 1537NAME: cache_dns_program
1538TYPE: string
1539IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1540DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
1541LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
1542DOC_START
1543 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
1544DOC_END
1545
1546NAME: dns_children
1547TYPE: int
1548IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1549DEFAULT: 5
1550LOC: Config.dnsChildren
1551DOC_START
1552 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
1553 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
1554 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
1555 is 32. The default is 5.
1556
1557 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
1558DOC_END
1559
1560NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
1561TYPE: time_t
1562DEFAULT: 5 seconds
1563LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
1564IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1565DOC_START
1566 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
1567 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
1568
1569DOC_END
1570
1571NAME: dns_timeout
1572TYPE: time_t
1573DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1574LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
1575IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1576DOC_START
1577 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7f7db318 1578 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
1579 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 1580DOC_END
1581
1582NAME: dns_defnames
1583COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 1584TYPE: onoff
1585DEFAULT: off
1586LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 1587DOC_START
68836b58 1588 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
1589 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
cccac0a2 1590 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
68836b58 1591 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 1592DOC_END
1593
1594NAME: dns_nameservers
1595TYPE: wordlist
1596DEFAULT: none
1597LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
1598DOC_START
1599 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
1600 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
1601 /etc/resolv.conf file.
1602 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
1603 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
1604 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
1605 configurations are supported.
1606
1607 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
1608DOC_END
1609
1610NAME: hosts_file
1611TYPE: string
1612DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
1613LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
1614DOC_START
1615 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
1616 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7f7db318 1617 default locations:
cccac0a2 1618 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
1619 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6845f129 1620 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
fc4d8ed8 1621 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6845f129 1622 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
cccac0a2 1623 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6845f129 1624 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
1625 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 1626
1627 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
1628 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5ac1a5b3 1629 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
cccac0a2 1630 character are comments.
1631
7f7db318 1632 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
cccac0a2 1633 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7f7db318 1634 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
cccac0a2 1635 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
1636 definitions.
1637DOC_END
1638
1639NAME: diskd_program
1640TYPE: string
1641DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
1642LOC: Config.Program.diskd
1643DOC_START
1644 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
7f7db318 1645 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
cccac0a2 1646 diskd as one of the store io modules.
1647DOC_END
1648
1649NAME: unlinkd_program
1650IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
1651TYPE: string
1652DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
1653LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
1654DOC_START
1655 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
1656DOC_END
1657
1658NAME: pinger_program
1659TYPE: string
1660DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
1661LOC: Config.Program.pinger
1662IFDEF: USE_ICMP
1663DOC_START
1664 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
1665DOC_END
1666
1667
346be6ad 1668NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
cccac0a2 1669TYPE: wordlist
1670LOC: Config.Program.redirect
1671DEFAULT: none
1672DOC_START
1673 Specify the location of the executable for the URL redirector.
1674 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
1675 See the FAQ (section 15) for information on how to write one.
1676 By default, a redirector is not used.
1677DOC_END
1678
1679
dc62e7f7 1680NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
cccac0a2 1681TYPE: int
1682DEFAULT: 5
1683LOC: Config.redirectChildren
1684DOC_START
1685 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
1686 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
1687 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
1688 and other system resources.
1689DOC_END
1690
dc62e7f7 1691NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
cccac0a2 1692TYPE: int
1693DEFAULT: 0
1694LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
1695DOC_START
1696 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
7f7db318 1697 parallell. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
cccac0a2 1698 is a old-style singlethreaded redirector.
1699DOC_END
1700
dc62e7f7 1701NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
cccac0a2 1702TYPE: onoff
1703DEFAULT: on
1704LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
1705DOC_START
1706 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
7f7db318 1707 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
cccac0a2 1708 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
1709
1710 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
1711 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
1712DOC_END
1713
1714NAME: redirector_access
1715TYPE: acl_access
1716DEFAULT: none
1717LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
1718DOC_START
1719 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
1720 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
1721 are sent.
1722DOC_END
1723
1724NAME: auth_param
1725TYPE: authparam
1726LOC: Config.authConfiguration
1727DEFAULT: none
1728DOC_START
1729 This is used to pass parameters to the various authentication
1730 schemes.
1731 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
7f7db318 1732
1733 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1734 would tell the basic authentication scheme it's program parameter.
1735
7f7db318 1736 The order authentication prompts are presented to the client_agent
5ac1a5b3 1737 is dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file.
cccac0a2 1738 IE has a bug (it's not rfc 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
1739 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure schemes
1740 are presented. For now use the order in the file below. If other browsers
5ac1a5b3 1741 have difficulties (don't recognize the schemes offered even if you are using
7f7db318 1742 basic) either put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting
cccac0a2 1743 out their program entry).
1744
1745 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be shutdown
1746 by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on the fly and
1747 activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a different helper,
1748 but not unconfigure the helper completely.
1749
1750 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
7f7db318 1751
cccac0a2 1752 "program" cmdline
1753 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1754 program reads a line containing "username password" and replies
0a0c70cd 1755 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
1756 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
1757 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
1758 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a program
1759 is specified.
cccac0a2 1760
1761 If you want to use the traditional proxy authentication,
6845f129 1762 jump over to the ../helpers/basic_auth/NCSA directory and
cccac0a2 1763 type:
1764 % make
1765 % make install
1766
1767 Then, set this line to something like
1768
6845f129 1769 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1770
1771 "children" numberofchildren
1772 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1773 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1774 process a backlog of usercode/password verifications, slowing
1775 it down. When password verifications are done via a (slow)
1776 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1777 processes.
1778 auth_param basic children 5
1779
1780 "concurrency" concurrency
1781 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
1782 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
1783 one request at a time.
1784 auth_param basic concurrency 0
1785
1786 "realm" realmstring
1787 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1788 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
1789 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1790 password). There is no default.
1791 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1792
1793 "credentialsttl" timetolive
1794 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
1795 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
1796 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
1797 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
5ac1a5b3 1798 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
cccac0a2 1799 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
1800 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
1801 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
1802 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
1803
6845f129 1804 "casesensitive" on|off
1805 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
1806 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
1807 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
1808 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
1809 auth_param basic casesensitive off
64658378 1810
cccac0a2 1811 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
1812
1813 "program" cmdline
1814 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
1815 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
63a24aeb 1816 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
4c9fa5d5 1817 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
1818 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
0a0c70cd 1819 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
1820 available as %m in the returned error page.
4c9fa5d5 1821
1822 By default, the digest authentication is not used unless a
1823 program is specified.
1824
1825 If you want to use a digest authenticator, jump over to the
6845f129 1826 helpers/digest_auth/ directory and choose the authenticator
4c9fa5d5 1827 to use. In it's directory type
6845f129 1828 % make
1829 % make install
cccac0a2 1830
1831 Then, set this line to something like
1832
1833 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
1834
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 H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
1840 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
1841 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
1842 auth_param digest children 5
1843
1844 "realm" realmstring
1845 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1846 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
1847 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1848 password). There is no default.
1849 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1850
1851 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
1852 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
1853 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
1854
1855 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
1856 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
1857 valid for.
1858
1859 "nonce_max_count" number
1860 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
1861 used.
1862
1863 "nonce_strictness" on|off
5ac1a5b3 1864 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
cccac0a2 1865 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
1866 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
1867 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
1868
1869 "check_nonce_count" on|off
1870 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
1871 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
1872 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
1873 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
1874
1875 "post_workaround" on|off
1876 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
1877 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
5ac1a5b3 1878 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 1879
cccac0a2 1880 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
1881
1882 "program" cmdline
5ac1a5b3 1883 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
bdf7e1b4 1884 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
1885 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
5ac1a5b3 1886 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
1887 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
cccac0a2 1888 is not used.
1889
1890 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
1891
1892 "children" numberofchildren
1893 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1894 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1895 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
5ac1a5b3 1896 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
cccac0a2 1897 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1898 processes.
dd9b1776 1899
cccac0a2 1900 auth_param ntlm children 5
1901
dd9b1776 1902 "keep_alive" on|off
1903 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
1904 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
1905 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
1906 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
1907 supported by the proxy.
1908
1909 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
1910
6bf4f823 1911 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 1912
6bf4f823 1913 "program" cmdline
1914 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
1915 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
1916 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
1917 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
1918 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
1919 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
1920 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
1921 is not used.
1922 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
26819f1e 1923 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
6bf4f823 1924
1925 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
1926
1927 "children" numberofchildren
1928 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1929 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1930 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
1931 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
1932 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1933 processes.
1934 auth_param negotiate children 5
1935
1936 "keep_alive" on|off
1937 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
1938 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
1939 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
1940 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
1941 supported by the proxy.
1942
1943 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 1944
1945NOCOMMENT_START
6845f129 1946#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
6bf4f823 1947#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
1948#auth_param negotiate children 5
1949#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
26819f1e 1950#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
1951#auth_param ntlm children 5
1952#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
2d70df72 1953#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
1954#auth_param digest children 5
1955#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1956#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
1957#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
1958#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
94439e4e 1959#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6845f129 1960#auth_param basic children 5
1961#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1962#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
6b698a21 1963NOCOMMENT_END
1964DOC_END
0976f8db 1965
6b698a21 1966NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
1967TYPE: time_t
1968DEFAULT: 1 hour
1969LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
1970DOC_START
1971 The time period between garbage collection across the
5ac1a5b3 1972 username cache. This is a tradeoff between memory utilization
6b698a21 1973 (long intervals - say 2 days) and CPU (short intervals -
1974 say 1 minute). Only change if you have good reason to.
1975DOC_END
0976f8db 1976
6b698a21 1977NAME: authenticate_ttl
1978TYPE: time_t
1979DEFAULT: 1 hour
1980LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
1981DOC_START
1982 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
1983 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
1984 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
1985 TTL are removed from memory.
1986DOC_END
0976f8db 1987
6b698a21 1988NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
1989TYPE: time_t
1990LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
1991DEFAULT: 0 seconds
1992DOC_START
1993 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
1994 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
1995 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
1996 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
1997 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
1998 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
1999 environment with relatively static address assignments.
2000DOC_END
0976f8db 2001
6b698a21 2002NAME: external_acl_type
2003TYPE: externalAclHelper
2004LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
2005DEFAULT: none
2006DOC_START
2007 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
2008 to look up the status
7f7db318 2009
6b698a21 2010 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
7f7db318 2011
6b698a21 2012 Options:
0976f8db 2013
6b698a21 2014 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
2015 for 1 hour)
2016 negative_ttl=n
2017 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
2018 as ttl)
2019 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
2020 external acl lookups of this type.
2021 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Use 0 for old style
2022 helpers who can only process a single request at a
2023 time.
2024 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
2025 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
2026 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
2027 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
dc1af3cf 2028 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
7f7db318 2029
6b698a21 2030 FORMAT specifications
2031
2032 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
66b4345b 2033 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
6b698a21 2034 %IDENT Ident user name
2035 %SRC Client IP
2036 %SRCPORT Client source port
2037 %DST Requested host
2038 %PROTO Requested protocol
2039 %PORT Requested port
2040 %PATH Requested URL path
2041 %METHOD Request method
2042 %MYADDR Squid interface address
2043 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
4ac9968f 2044 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
3d61c476 2045 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
4ac9968f 2046 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
2047 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
6b698a21 2048 %{Header} HTTP request header
2049 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
2050 %{Hdr:;member}
2051 HTTP request header list member using ; as
2052 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
2053 character.
2054
2055 In addition, any string specified in the referencing acl will
2056 also be included in the helper request line, after the specified
2057 formats (see the "acl external" directive)
2058
2059 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
2060 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
2061 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
dc1af3cf 2062 more details. To protect from odd characters the data is URL
2063 escaped.
6b698a21 2064
2065 General result syntax:
7f7db318 2066
6b698a21 2067 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
0976f8db 2068
6b698a21 2069 Defined keywords:
0976f8db 2070
6b698a21 2071 user= The users name (login)
2072 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
2073 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
2074 in error pages
2075 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
2076 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
2077 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
2078 %ea in logformat specifications
0976f8db 2079
dc1af3cf 2080 Keyword values need to be URL escaped if they may contain
2081 contain whitespace or quotes.
2082
2083 In Squid-2.5 compatibility mode quoting using " and \ is used
2084 instead of URL escaping.
6b698a21 2085DOC_END
0976f8db 2086
6b698a21 2087COMMENT_START
2088 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2089 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2090COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2091
6b698a21 2092NAME: request_header_max_size
2093COMMENT: (KB)
2094TYPE: b_size_t
5b648f60 2095DEFAULT: 20 KB
6b698a21 2096LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2097DOC_START
2098 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2099 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2100 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2101 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2102 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2103DOC_END
0976f8db 2104
6b698a21 2105NAME: request_body_max_size
2106COMMENT: (KB)
2107TYPE: b_size_t
2108DEFAULT: 0 KB
2109LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2110DOC_START
2111 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2112 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2113 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2114 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2115 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2116 be no limit imposed.
2117DOC_END
0976f8db 2118
6b698a21 2119NAME: refresh_pattern
2120TYPE: refreshpattern
2121LOC: Config.Refresh
2122DEFAULT: none
2123DOC_START
2124 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
0976f8db 2125
6b698a21 2126 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2127 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
0976f8db 2128
6b698a21 2129 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2130 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2131 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2132 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2133 has taken the appropriate actions.
0976f8db 2134
6b698a21 2135 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2136 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2137 will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2138
6b698a21 2139 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2140 expiry time will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2141
6b698a21 2142 options: override-expire
2143 override-lastmod
2144 reload-into-ims
2145 ignore-reload
38f9c547 2146 ignore-no-cache
2147 ignore-no-store
2148 ignore-private
2149 ignore-auth
6845f129 2150 refresh-ims
0976f8db 2151
6b698a21 2152 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2153 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2154 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2155 for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2156
6b698a21 2157 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
7f7db318 2158 that were modified recently.
0976f8db 2159
6b698a21 2160 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2161 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2162 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2163 liable for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2164
6b698a21 2165 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2166 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2167 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2168 it causes.
7f7db318 2169
6845f129 2170 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2171 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2172 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2173 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2174 send it anyway.
38f9c547 2175
6845f129 2176 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2177 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2178 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2179 liable for problems which it causes.
38f9c547 2180
6845f129 2181 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2182 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2183 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2184 liable for problems which it causes.
38f9c547 2185
6845f129 2186 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2187 irrespective of ``Cache-control'' headers received from
2188 a server. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2189 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2190 it causes.
38f9c547 2191
4c3ef9b2 2192 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2193 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2194 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2195 if one is available.
2196
6b698a21 2197 Basically a cached object is:
0976f8db 2198
6b698a21 2199 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2200 STALE if age > max
2201 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2202 FRESH if age < min
2203 else STALE
0976f8db 2204
6b698a21 2205 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2206 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
7f7db318 2207 match the default will be used.
0976f8db 2208
6b698a21 2209 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2210 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2211 used.
0976f8db 2212
6b698a21 2213Suggested default:
2214NOCOMMENT_START
2215refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2216refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2217refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2218NOCOMMENT_END
2219DOC_END
0976f8db 2220
6b698a21 2221NAME: quick_abort_min
2222COMMENT: (KB)
2223TYPE: kb_size_t
2224DEFAULT: 16 KB
2225LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2226DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2227
6b698a21 2228NAME: quick_abort_max
2229COMMENT: (KB)
2230TYPE: kb_size_t
2231DEFAULT: 16 KB
2232LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2233DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2234
6b698a21 2235NAME: quick_abort_pct
2236COMMENT: (percent)
2237TYPE: int
2238DEFAULT: 95
2239LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2240DOC_START
2241 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2242 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2243 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2244 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2245 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2246 downloads.
0976f8db 2247
6b698a21 2248 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2249 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2250 then.
0976f8db 2251
6b698a21 2252 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2253 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2254
6b698a21 2255 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2256 it will abort the retrieval.
0976f8db 2257
6b698a21 2258 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2259 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2260
6b698a21 2261 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2262 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2263 to '0 KB'.
0976f8db 2264
6b698a21 2265 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
7f7db318 2266 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6b698a21 2267DOC_END
0976f8db 2268
6b698a21 2269NAME: read_ahead_gap
2270COMMENT: buffer-size
2271TYPE: kb_size_t
2272LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2273DEFAULT: 16 KB
2274DOC_START
2275 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2276 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2277DOC_END
0976f8db 2278
6b698a21 2279NAME: negative_ttl
2280COMMENT: time-units
2281TYPE: time_t
2282LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2283DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2284DOC_START
2285 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2286 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2287 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2288 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2289 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2290DOC_END
0976f8db 2291
0976f8db 2292
6b698a21 2293NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2294COMMENT: time-units
2295TYPE: time_t
2296LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2297DEFAULT: 6 hours
2298DOC_START
2299 Time-to-Live (TTL) for positive caching of successful DNS lookups.
2300 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). If you want to minimize the
2301 use of Squid's ipcache, set this to 1, not 0.
2302DOC_END
0976f8db 2303
0976f8db 2304
6b698a21 2305NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2306COMMENT: time-units
2307TYPE: time_t
2308LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2309DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2310DOC_START
2311 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2312DOC_END
0976f8db 2313
6b698a21 2314NAME: range_offset_limit
2315COMMENT: (bytes)
2316TYPE: b_size_t
2317LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2318DEFAULT: 0 KB
2319DOC_START
2320 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2321 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
7f7db318 2322 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
6b698a21 2323 is NOT cached.
0976f8db 2324
6b698a21 2325 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2326 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2327 sending anything to the client.
0976f8db 2328
6b698a21 2329 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
7f7db318 2330 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
0976f8db 2331
6b698a21 2332 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2333 client requested. (default)
2334DOC_END
0976f8db 2335
0976f8db 2336
6b698a21 2337COMMENT_START
2338 TIMEOUTS
2339 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2340COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2341
777831e0 2342NAME: forward_timeout
2343COMMENT: time-units
2344TYPE: time_t
2345LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
2346DEFAULT: 4 minutes
2347DOC_START
6845f129 2348 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
2349 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
777831e0 2350DOC_END
2351
6b698a21 2352NAME: connect_timeout
2353COMMENT: time-units
2354TYPE: time_t
2355LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
777831e0 2356DEFAULT: 1 minute
6b698a21 2357DOC_START
6845f129 2358 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
2359 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
2360 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
6b698a21 2361DOC_END
0976f8db 2362
6b698a21 2363NAME: peer_connect_timeout
2364COMMENT: time-units
2365TYPE: time_t
2366LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
2367DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2368DOC_START
2369 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
2370 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
2371 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
2372 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
2373DOC_END
0976f8db 2374
6b698a21 2375NAME: read_timeout
2376COMMENT: time-units
2377TYPE: time_t
2378LOC: Config.Timeout.read
2379DEFAULT: 15 minutes
2380DOC_START
2381 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
2382 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
2383 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
2384 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
2385 default is 15 minutes.
2386DOC_END
0976f8db 2387
0976f8db 2388
6b698a21 2389NAME: request_timeout
2390TYPE: time_t
2391LOC: Config.Timeout.request
2392DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2393DOC_START
2394 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
2395 connection establishment.
2396DOC_END
0976f8db 2397
0976f8db 2398
6b698a21 2399NAME: persistent_request_timeout
2400TYPE: time_t
2401LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
2402DEFAULT: 1 minute
2403DOC_START
2404 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
2405 connection after the previous request completes.
2406DOC_END
0976f8db 2407
0976f8db 2408
6b698a21 2409NAME: client_lifetime
2410COMMENT: time-units
2411TYPE: time_t
2412LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
2413DEFAULT: 1 day
2414DOC_START
7f7db318 2415 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6b698a21 2416 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
2417 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
2418 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
2419 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
2420 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
2421 day, 1440 minutes.
2422
2423 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
2424 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
2425 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
2426 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
2427 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
2428 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
2429DOC_END
2430
2431NAME: half_closed_clients
2432TYPE: onoff
2433LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
2434DEFAULT: on
2435DOC_START
2436 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
2437 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
2438 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
2439 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
2440 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
2441 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
2442 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
2443 "no more data to read."
2444DOC_END
0976f8db 2445
6b698a21 2446NAME: pconn_timeout
2447TYPE: time_t
2448LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
2449DEFAULT: 120 seconds
2450DOC_START
2451 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
2452 proxies.
2453DOC_END
0976f8db 2454
6b698a21 2455NAME: ident_timeout
2456TYPE: time_t
2457IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2458LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
2459DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2460DOC_START
2461 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
7f7db318 2462
6b698a21 2463 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7f7db318 2464 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6b698a21 2465 many ident requests going at once.
2466DOC_END
0976f8db 2467
0976f8db 2468
6b698a21 2469NAME: shutdown_lifetime
2470COMMENT: time-units
2471TYPE: time_t
2472LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
2473DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2474DOC_START
2475 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
2476 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
2477 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
2478 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
2479 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
2480DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2481
6b698a21 2482COMMENT_START
2483 ACCESS CONTROLS
2484 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2485COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 2486
6b698a21 2487NAME: acl
2488TYPE: acl
2489LOC: Config.aclList
2490DEFAULT: none
2491DOC_START
2492 Defining an Access List
9e7dbc51 2493
6b698a21 2494 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
2495 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
9e7dbc51 2496
6b698a21 2497 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
9e7dbc51 2498
6b698a21 2499 acltype is one of the types described below
9e7dbc51 2500
6b698a21 2501 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2502 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2503
6b698a21 2504 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
2505 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
2506 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
2507 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
9e7dbc51 2508
5b807763 2509 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
2510 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
2511 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
5cb988c7 2512 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
5b807763 2513 #
2514 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
2515 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
2516 # find out its MAC address.
2517
6b698a21 2518 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
2519 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
2520 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
2521 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
7660b45d 2522 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
2523 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
2524 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9e7dbc51 2525
a0ec9f68 2526 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
2527
6b698a21 2528 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
2529 day-abbrevs:
2530 S - Sunday
2531 M - Monday
2532 T - Tuesday
2533 W - Wednesday
2534 H - Thursday
2535 F - Friday
2536 A - Saturday
2537 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
2538 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
2539 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
2540 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
2541 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
2542 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
2543 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
2544 acl aclname method GET POST ...
2545 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
00634927 2546 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
6845f129 2547 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
2548 # pattern match on Referer header
2549 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
6b698a21 2550 acl aclname ident username ...
2551 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
2552 # string match on ident output.
9e7dbc51 2553 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
6b698a21 2554 acl aclname src_as number ...
2555 acl aclname dst_as number ...
2556 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
9e7dbc51 2557 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
2558 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
6468fe10 2559 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
2560 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
d87ebd78 2561 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
2562 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
6468fe10 2563
6b698a21 2564 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
2565 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
2566 # list of valid usernames
c68e9c6b 2567 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
73e67ee0 2568 #
2569 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
2570 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
2571 # in access.log.
c68e9c6b 2572 #
2573 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
2574 # to check username/password combinations (see
f7d2a450 2575 # auth_param directive).
c68e9c6b 2576 #
d048c262 2577 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
2578 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
2579 # to respond to proxy authentication.
934b03fc 2580
6b698a21 2581 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
2582 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
dba79ac5 2583 # Example:
96d88dcb 2584 #
dba79ac5 2585 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
2586
6b698a21 2587 acl aclname maxconn number
2588 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
9bc73deb 2589 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
2590
6b698a21 2591 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
2592 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
c23e89cd 2593 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
60d096f4 2594 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
7f7db318 2595 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
be5caa55 2596 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
c23e89cd 2597 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
7f7db318 2598 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
be5caa55 2599 # request is denied)
2600 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
c23e89cd 2601 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
be5caa55 2602 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
60d096f4 2603
cccac0a2 2604 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
5ac1a5b3 2605 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
c4ab8329 2606 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
5ac1a5b3 2607 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
c4ab8329 2608 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
2609 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
2610 # http_reply_access.
2611
7df0bfd7 2612 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
2613 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
2614 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
2615 # ACLs.
2616
2617 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2618 # regex match agains the mime type of the request generated
2619 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
2620 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
2621 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
2622 # to match the returned file type.
2623
00634927 2624 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
2625 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
2626 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
2627 # ACLs.
2628
cccac0a2 2629 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
2630 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
d9572179 2631 # external_acl_type directive.
c4ab8329 2632
cccac0a2 2633 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
2634 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2635 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2636
cccac0a2 2637 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
2638 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2639 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2640
cccac0a2 2641 acl aclname ext_user username ...
2642 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
2643 # string match on username returned by external acl processing
d95b862f 2644 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
2645
cccac0a2 2646Examples:
5b807763 2647acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
cccac0a2 2648acl myexample dst_as 1241
2649acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
2650acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
2651acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
c68e9c6b 2652
cccac0a2 2653NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2654#Recommended minimum configuration:
cccac0a2 2655acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
2656acl manager proto cache_object
2657acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
2658acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ec19153f 2659acl SSL_ports port 443
cccac0a2 2660acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
2661acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
ec19153f 2662acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
cccac0a2 2663acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
2664acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
2665acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
2666acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
2667acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
2668acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
2669acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
2670acl CONNECT method CONNECT
2671NOCOMMENT_END
2672DOC_END
2673
2674NAME: http_access
2675TYPE: acl_access
2676LOC: Config.accessList.http
2677DEFAULT: none
2678DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2679DOC_START
2680 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
2681
2682 Access to the HTTP port:
2683 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2684
2685 NOTE on default values:
2686
2687 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
2688 the request.
2689
2690 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
2691 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
7f7db318 2692 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
cccac0a2 2693 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
2694 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
2695 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
2696
2697NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2698#Recommended minimum configuration:
2699#
2700# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
cccac0a2 2701http_access allow manager localhost
2702http_access deny manager
6b53c392 2703# Deny requests to unknown ports
cccac0a2 2704http_access deny !Safe_ports
6b53c392 2705# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
cccac0a2 2706http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
c68e9c6b 2707#
7f7db318 2708# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
2709# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
4cc6eb12 2710# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
2711#http_access deny to_localhost
c68e9c6b 2712#
4cc6eb12 2713# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
2714
59f4a63e 2715# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
b9d7fe3e 2716# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
2717# be allowed
2718#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
2719#http_access allow our_networks
2720
6b53c392 2721# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
cccac0a2 2722http_access deny all
2723NOCOMMENT_END
2724DOC_END
c4ab8329 2725
cccac0a2 2726NAME: http_reply_access
2727TYPE: acl_access
2728LOC: Config.accessList.reply
2729DEFAULT: none
2730DEFAULT_IF_NONE: allow all
2731DOC_START
6845f129 2732 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
c4ab8329 2733
6845f129 2734 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
0976f8db 2735
6845f129 2736 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
cccac0a2 2737 all replies
0976f8db 2738
6845f129 2739 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
2740 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
2741 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
0976f8db 2742
cccac0a2 2743NOCOMMENT_START
c4ab8329 2744#Recommended minimum configuration:
2745#
2746# Insert your own rules here.
2747#
2748#
2749# and finally allow by default
cccac0a2 2750http_reply_access allow all
2751NOCOMMENT_END
2752DOC_END
6b53c392 2753
6b53c392 2754
cccac0a2 2755NAME: icp_access
2756TYPE: acl_access
2757LOC: Config.accessList.icp
2758DEFAULT: none
2759DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2760DOC_START
2761 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
2762 access lists
934b03fc 2763
cccac0a2 2764 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2765
cccac0a2 2766 See http_access for details
0976f8db 2767
cccac0a2 2768NOCOMMENT_START
403b5e7b 2769#Allow ICP queries from everyone
cccac0a2 2770icp_access allow all
2771NOCOMMENT_END
2772DOC_END
934b03fc 2773
2774
5401aa8d 2775NAME: htcp_access
2776IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2777TYPE: acl_access
2778LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
2779DEFAULT: none
2780DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2781DOC_START
2782 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
2783 access lists
2784
2785 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2786
2787 See http_access for details
2788
2789#Allow HTCP queries from everyone
2790htcp_access allow all
2791DOC_END
2792
2793NAME: htcp_clr_access
2794IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2795TYPE: acl_access
2796LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
2797DEFAULT: none
2798DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2799DOC_START
2800 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
2801 on defined access lists
2802
2803 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2804
2805 See http_access for details
2806
2807#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
2808acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
2809htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
2810DOC_END
2811
2812
cccac0a2 2813NAME: miss_access
2814TYPE: acl_access
2815LOC: Config.accessList.miss
2816DEFAULT: none
2817DOC_START
2818 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2819 a parent. For example:
934b03fc 2820
cccac0a2 2821 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
2822 miss_access allow localclients
2823 miss_access deny !localclients
934b03fc 2824
7f7db318 2825 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
cccac0a2 2826 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
934b03fc 2827
cccac0a2 2828 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
2829 to fetch MISSES from us.
6b53c392 2830
cccac0a2 2831NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2832#Default setting:
2833# miss_access allow all
cccac0a2 2834NOCOMMENT_END
2835DOC_END
2836
2837
2838NAME: cache_peer_access
2839TYPE: peer_access
2840DEFAULT: none
2841LOC: none
2842DOC_START
2843 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2844 using ACL elements.
2845
2846 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2847
2848 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2849 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2850 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
2851DOC_END
2852
2853NAME: ident_lookup_access
2854TYPE: acl_access
2855IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2856DEFAULT: none
2857DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2858LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
2859DOC_START
2860 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2861 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2862 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2863 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2864 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2865 any requests.
2866
2867 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2868 can follow this example:
2869
2870 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
2871 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2872 ident_lookup_access deny all
2873
2874 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
2875 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2876 the correct result.
2877DOC_END
2878
2879NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2880TYPE: acl_tos
2881DEFAULT: none
2882LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
2883DOC_START
2884 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
2885 connections with, based on the username or source address
2886 making the request.
2887
2888 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2889
2890 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2891 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
2892
2893 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2894 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2895 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
2896 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2897
2898 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
2899 know what you're specifying. For more, see RFC 2474
2900
2901 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a byte, value 0 - 255, or
2902 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2903
2904 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2905 matching line.
2906DOC_END
2907
2908NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2909TYPE: acl_address
2910DEFAULT: none
2911LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2912DOC_START
2913 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2914 based on the username or sourceaddress of the user making
2915 the request.
7f7db318 2916
cccac0a2 2917 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
2918
5ac1a5b3 2919 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
7f7db318 2920 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
cccac0a2 2921 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
2922 source address 10.1.0.3.
2923
2924 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2925 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2926 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
2927 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
2928 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
2929
2930 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2931 matching line.
2932DOC_END
2933
4eb368f9 2934NAME: reply_header_max_size
2935COMMENT: (KB)
2936TYPE: b_size_t
2937DEFAULT: 20 KB
2938LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
2939DOC_START
2940 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
2941 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2942 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
2943 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2944 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2945DOC_END
2946
cccac0a2 2947NAME: reply_body_max_size
2948COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
2949TYPE: acl_b_size_t
2950DEFAULT: none
2951LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2952DOC_START
6845f129 2953 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
cccac0a2 2954 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
5ac1a5b3 2955 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
cccac0a2 2956 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
5ac1a5b3 2957 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
cccac0a2 2958 for this reply.
2959
7f7db318 2960 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
cccac0a2 2961 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2962 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2963 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2964 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2965 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2966 and they will receive a partial reply.
2967
2968 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2969 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2970 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2971 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2972
2973 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2974 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2975 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2976 the size of your largest error page.
2977
2978 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2979 no limit imposed.
2980DOC_END
2981
2982NAME: log_access
2983TYPE: acl_access
2984LOC: Config.accessList.log
2985DEFAULT: none
2986COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2987DOC_START
6845f129 2988 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
cccac0a2 2989 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2990 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2991DOC_END
0976f8db 2992
cccac0a2 2993COMMENT_START
2994 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
2995 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2996COMMENT_END
2997
2998NAME: cache_mgr
2999TYPE: string
3000DEFAULT: webmaster
3001LOC: Config.adminEmail
3002DOC_START
3003 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3004 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3005DOC_END
3006
3007
abacf776 3008NAME: mail_from
3009TYPE: string
3010DEFAULT: none
3011LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3012DOC_START
3013 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3014 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3015 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3016 src/globals.h before building squid.
3017DOC_END
3018
3019
d084bf20 3020NAME: mail_program
3021TYPE: eol
3022DEFAULT: mail
3023LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3024DOC_START
3025 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
3026 The default is "mail". The specified program must complain
3027 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
3028 mail_program recipient < mailfile
3029 Optional command line options can be specified.
3030DOC_END
3031
3032
cccac0a2 3033NAME: cache_effective_user
3034TYPE: string
3035DEFAULT: nobody
3036LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3037DOC_START
3038 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3039 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
3040 to UID to nobody. If you define cache_effective_user, but not
3041 cache_effective_group, Squid sets the GID to the effective
3042 user's default group ID (taken from the password file) and
3043 supplementary group list from the from groups membership of
3044 cache_effective_user.
3045DOC_END
3046
cccac0a2 3047
3048NAME: cache_effective_group
3049TYPE: string
3050DEFAULT: none
3051LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3052DOC_START
e3d74828 3053 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3054 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3055 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
3056 all other group privileges of the effective user is ignored
3057 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
3058 root the user starting Squid must be member of the specified
3059 group.
cccac0a2 3060DOC_END
3061
3062
d3caee79 3063NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3064COMMENT: on|off
3065TYPE: onoff
3066DEFAULT: off
3067LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3068DOC_START
3069 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3070DOC_END
3071
3072
cccac0a2 3073NAME: visible_hostname
3074TYPE: string
3075LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3076DEFAULT: none
3077DOC_START
3078 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3079 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3080 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3081 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3082 names with this setting.
3083DOC_END
3084
3085
3086NAME: unique_hostname
3087TYPE: string
3088LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3089DEFAULT: none
3090DOC_START
3091 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3092 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3093 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3094DOC_END
3095
3096
3097NAME: hostname_aliases
3098TYPE: wordlist
3099LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3100DEFAULT: none
3101DOC_START
7f7db318 3102 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3103DOC_END
0976f8db 3104
cccac0a2 3105COMMENT_START
3106 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3107 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3108
3109 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3110 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3111 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3112 create cache hierarchies.
3113
3114 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3115 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3116 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3117
3118 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3119 following information from this configuration file:
3120
3121 http_port
3122 icp_port
3123 cache_mgr
3124
3125 All current information is processed regularly and made
3126 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3127COMMENT_END
3128
3129NAME: announce_period
3130TYPE: time_t
3131LOC: Config.Announce.period
3132DEFAULT: 0
3133DOC_START
3134 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3135 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3136 messages.
3137
3138 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3139 below.
3140
3141NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3142#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3143#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3144NOCOMMENT_END
3145DOC_END
3146
3147
3148NAME: announce_host
3149TYPE: string
3150DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3151LOC: Config.Announce.host
3152DOC_NONE
3153
3154NAME: announce_file
3155TYPE: string
3156DEFAULT: none
3157LOC: Config.Announce.file
3158DOC_NONE
3159
3160NAME: announce_port
3161TYPE: ushort
3162DEFAULT: 3131
3163LOC: Config.Announce.port
3164DOC_START
3165 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3166 number where the registration message will be sent.
3167
3168 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3169 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3170 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3171 message.
3172DOC_END
3173
3174NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
3175IFDEF: ESI
3176TYPE: string
3177LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3178DEFAULT: unset-id
3179DOC_START
3180 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3181 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3182 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3183 an identification token.
3184DOC_END
3185
3186NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
3187IFDEF: ESI
3188COMMENT: on|off
3189TYPE: onoff
3190DEFAULT: off
3191LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3192DOC_START
3193 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3194 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3195DOC_END
3196
3197NAME: esi_parser
3198IFDEF: ESI
964b44c3 3199COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3200TYPE: string
3201LOC: ESIParser::Type
3202DEFAULT: custom
3203DOC_START
3204 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3205 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3206 encodings.
3207DOC_END
0976f8db 3208
cccac0a2 3209COMMENT_START
3210 MISCELLANEOUS
3211 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3212COMMENT_END
3213
3214NAME: dns_testnames
3215TYPE: wordlist
3216LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
3217DEFAULT: none
3218DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
3219DOC_START
3220 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
3221
3222 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
3223DOC_END
3224
3225
3226NAME: logfile_rotate
3227TYPE: int
3228DEFAULT: 10
3229LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3230DOC_START
3231 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
87d69285 3232 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3233 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3234 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3235 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
cccac0a2 3236 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3237
3238 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3239 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3240 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3241 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3242 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3243 <pid>'.
3244DOC_END
3245
3246
3247NAME: append_domain
3248TYPE: string
3249LOC: Config.appendDomain
3250DEFAULT: none
3251DOC_START
3252 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
3253 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
3254
7f7db318 3255 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
cccac0a2 3256 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
3257 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
3258
3259Example:
3260 append_domain .yourdomain.com
3261DOC_END
3262
3263
3264NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
3265COMMENT: (bytes)
3266TYPE: b_size_t
3267DEFAULT: 0 bytes
3268LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
3269DOC_START
3270 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
3271 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
3272 the default buffer size.
3273DOC_END
3274
3275NAME: err_html_text
3276TYPE: eol
3277LOC: Config.errHtmlText
3278DEFAULT: none
3279DOC_START
3280 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
3281 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
3282 organizations Web page.
3283
3284 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
3285 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
3286 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
3287 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
3288DOC_END
3289
3290NAME: email_err_data
3291COMMENT: on|off
3292TYPE: onoff
3293LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
3294DEFAULT: on
3295DOC_START
3296 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
3297 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7f7db318 3298 so that the email body contains the data.
cccac0a2 3299 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
3300DOC_END
3301
3302
3303NAME: deny_info
3304TYPE: denyinfo
3305LOC: Config.denyInfoList
3306DEFAULT: none
3307DOC_START
3308 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
3309 or deny_info http://... acl
3310 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
3311
3312 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
3313 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. A single ACL will cause
3314 the http_access check to fail. If a 'deny_info' line exists
7f7db318 3315 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
cccac0a2 3316
3317 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
3318 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
3319
7f7db318 3320 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
cccac0a2 3321 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
3322 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
3323
3324 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
3325 by specifying TCP_RESET.
3326DOC_END
3327
3328NAME: memory_pools
3329COMMENT: on|off
3330TYPE: onoff
3331DEFAULT: on
3332LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
3333DOC_START
3334 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
3335 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
3336 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
3337 routines, disable this.
3338DOC_END
3339
3340NAME: memory_pools_limit
3341COMMENT: (bytes)
3342TYPE: b_size_t
e838cf2f 3343DEFAULT: 5 MB
cccac0a2 3344LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
3345DOC_START
3346 Used only with memory_pools on:
3347 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
3348
3349 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
3350 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
3351 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
3352 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
3353 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
3354 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
3355 configuration will use less memory.
3356
7e7e02e1 3357 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
3358 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
cccac0a2 3359
3360 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
3361 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
3362
3363 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
3364 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
3365 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
3366 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
3367DOC_END
3368
3369NAME: via
3370IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3371COMMENT: on|off
3372TYPE: onoff
3373DEFAULT: on
3374LOC: Config.onoff.via
3375DOC_START
3376 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3377 replies as required by RFC2616.
3378DOC_END
3379
3380NAME: forwarded_for
3381COMMENT: on|off
3382TYPE: onoff
3383DEFAULT: on
3384LOC: opt_forwarded_for
3385DOC_START
3386 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
3387 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
3388 this:
3389
3390 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
3391
3392 If you disable this, it will appear as
3393
3394 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
3395DOC_END
3396
3397NAME: log_icp_queries
3398COMMENT: on|off
3399TYPE: onoff
3400DEFAULT: on
3401LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
3402DOC_START
3403 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
3404 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
3405 up or to simplify log analysis.
3406DOC_END
3407
3408NAME: icp_hit_stale
3409COMMENT: on|off
3410TYPE: onoff
3411DEFAULT: off
3412LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
3413DOC_START
3414 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
3415 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
3416 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7f7db318 3417 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
cccac0a2 3418 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7f7db318 3419 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
cccac0a2 3420 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
3421DOC_END
3422
3423
3424NAME: minimum_direct_hops
3425TYPE: int
3426DEFAULT: 4
3427LOC: Config.minDirectHops
3428DOC_START
3429 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3430 which are no more than this many hops away.
3431DOC_END
3432
3433NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
3434TYPE: int
3435DEFAULT: 400
3436LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
3437DOC_START
3438 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3439 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
3440DOC_END
3441
3442NAME: cachemgr_passwd
3443TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
3444DEFAULT: none
3445LOC: Config.passwd_list
3446DOC_START
3447 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
3448
3449 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
3450
3451 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
3452 5min
3453 60min
3454 asndb
3455 authenticator
3456 cbdata
3457 client_list
3458 comm_incoming
3459 config *
3460 counters
3461 delay
3462 digest_stats
3463 dns
3464 events
3465 filedescriptors
3466 fqdncache
3467 histograms
3468 http_headers
3469 info
3470 io
3471 ipcache
3472 mem
3473 menu
3474 netdb
3475 non_peers
3476 objects
3477 offline_toggle *
3478 pconn
3479 peer_select
3480 redirector
3481 refresh
3482 server_list
3483 shutdown *
3484 store_digest
3485 storedir
3486 utilization
3487 via_headers
3488 vm_objects
3489
3490 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
3491 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
3492
3493 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
3494 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
3495 password to "none".
3496
3497 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
3498
3499Example:
3500 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
3501 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
3502 cachemgr_passwd disable all
3503DOC_END
3504
3505NAME: store_avg_object_size
3506COMMENT: (kbytes)
3507TYPE: kb_size_t
3508DEFAULT: 13 KB
3509LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3510DOC_START
3511 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3512 cache can hold. See doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt. The default is
3513 13 KB.
3514DOC_END
3515
3516NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3517TYPE: int
3518DEFAULT: 20
3519LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3520DOC_START
3521 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3522 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
c8f4eac4 3523 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
cccac0a2 3524DOC_END
3525
3526NAME: client_db
3527COMMENT: on|off
3528TYPE: onoff
3529DEFAULT: on
3530LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
3531DOC_START
7f7db318 3532 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
cccac0a2 3533 turn off client_db here.
3534DOC_END
3535
3536
3537NAME: netdb_low
3538TYPE: int
3539DEFAULT: 900
3540LOC: Config.Netdb.low
3541DOC_NONE
3542
3543NAME: netdb_high
3544TYPE: int
3545DEFAULT: 1000
3546LOC: Config.Netdb.high
3547DOC_START
3548 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
3549 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
3550 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
3551 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
3552DOC_END
3553
3554
3555NAME: netdb_ping_period
3556TYPE: time_t
3557LOC: Config.Netdb.period
3558DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3559DOC_START
3560 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
3561 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
3562 network. The default is five minutes.
3563DOC_END
3564
3565
3566NAME: query_icmp
3567COMMENT: on|off
3568TYPE: onoff
3569DEFAULT: off
3570LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
3571DOC_START
3572 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
3573 replies, enable this option.
3574
3575 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 3576 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
3577 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 3578 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
3579 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
3580 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
3581 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
3582 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
3583DOC_END
3584
3585NAME: test_reachability
3586COMMENT: on|off
3587TYPE: onoff
3588DEFAULT: off
3589LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
3590DOC_START
3591 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
3592 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
3593 database, or has a zero RTT.
3594DOC_END
3595
3596NAME: buffered_logs
3597COMMENT: on|off
3598TYPE: onoff
3599DEFAULT: off
3600LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3601DOC_START
3602 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3603 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3604 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3605 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3606 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3607DOC_END
3608
4c3ef9b2 3609NAME: refresh_all_ims
3610COMMENT: on|off
3611TYPE: onoff
3612DEFAULT: off
3613LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
3614DOC_START
3615 When you enable this option, squid will always check
3616 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
3617 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
3618 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
3619 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
3620
3621 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
3622 based on the age of the cached version.
3623DOC_END
3624
cccac0a2 3625NAME: reload_into_ims
3626IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3627COMMENT: on|off
3628TYPE: onoff
3629DEFAULT: off
3630LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
3631DOC_START
3632 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
3633 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
3634 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
3635 feature could make you liable for problems which it
3636 causes.
7f7db318 3637
cccac0a2 3638 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
3639DOC_END
3640
3641NAME: always_direct
3642TYPE: acl_access
3643LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
3644DEFAULT: none
3645DOC_START
3646 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3647
3648 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
3649 ALWAYS be forwarded directly to origin servers. For example,
3650 to always directly forward requests for local servers use
3651 something like:
3652
3653 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
3654 always_direct allow local-servers
3655
3656 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
3657
3658 acl FTP proto FTP
3659 always_direct allow FTP
3660
3661 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
3662 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
3663 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
3664 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
3665 some other rule. Example:
3666
3667 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3668 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3669 always_direct deny local-external
3670 always_direct allow local-servers
3671
3672 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
3673 and local_ip.
3674DOC_END
3675
3676NAME: never_direct
3677TYPE: acl_access
3678LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
3679DEFAULT: none
3680DOC_START
3681 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3682
3683 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
3684 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
3685
3686 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
3687 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
3688 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
3689 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
3690
3691 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3692 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
3693 never_direct deny local-servers
3694 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3695
3696 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
f939c0ca 3697 servers inside the firewall use something like:
cccac0a2 3698
3699 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
3700 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3701 always_direct deny local-external
3702 always_direct allow local-intranet
3703 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3704
cccac0a2 3705 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
3706 and firewall_ip.
3707DOC_END
3708
8c01ada0 3709NAME: request_header_access
cccac0a2 3710IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3711TYPE: http_header_access[]
8c01ada0 3712LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3713DEFAULT: none
3714DOC_START
8c01ada0 3715 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 3716
3717 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3718 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3719 causes.
3720
3721 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3722 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3723 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3724 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3725 mangling.
3726
8c01ada0 3727 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3728 client to the server.
3729
cccac0a2 3730 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3731 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3732 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3733
5ac1a5b3 3734 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
cccac0a2 3735 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3736
8c01ada0 3737 request_header_access From deny all
3738 request_header_access Referer deny all
3739 request_header_access Server deny all
3740 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3741 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3742 request_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3743
3744 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3745 you should use:
3746
8c01ada0 3747 request_header_access Allow allow all
3748 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3749 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
141ab88c 3750 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3751 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
8c01ada0 3752 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3753 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3754 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3755 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3756 request_header_access Date allow all
3757 request_header_access Expires allow all
3758 request_header_access Host allow all
3759 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3760 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3761 request_header_access Location allow all
3762 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3763 request_header_access Accept allow all
3764 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3765 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3766 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3767 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3768 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3769 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3770 request_header_access Title allow all
3771 request_header_access Connection allow all
3772 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3773 request_header_access All deny all
3774
3775 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3776 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
3777
3778 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3779 performed).
3780DOC_END
3781
3782NAME: reply_header_access
3783IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3784TYPE: http_header_access[]
3785LOC: Config.reply_header_access
3786DEFAULT: none
3787DOC_START
3788 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3789
3790 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3791 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3792 causes.
3793
3794 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3795 server to the client.
3796
3797 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3798 direction.
3799
3800 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3801 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3802 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3803 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3804 mangling.
3805
3806 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3807 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3808 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3809
5ac1a5b3 3810 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
8c01ada0 3811 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3812
3813 reply_header_access From deny all
3814 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3815 reply_header_access Server deny all
3816 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3817 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3818 reply_header_access Link deny all
3819
3820 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3821 you should use:
3822
3823 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3824 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3825 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
141ab88c 3826 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3827 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
8c01ada0 3828 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3829 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3830 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3831 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3832 reply_header_access Date allow all
3833 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3834 reply_header_access Host allow all
3835 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3836 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3837 reply_header_access Location allow all
3838 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3839 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3840 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3841 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3842 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3843 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3844 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3845 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3846 reply_header_access Title allow all
3847 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3848 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3849 reply_header_access All deny all
3850
3851 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3852 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3853
3854 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3855 performed).
3856DOC_END
3857
3858NAME: header_replace
3859IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3860TYPE: http_header_replace[]
8c01ada0 3861LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3862DEFAULT: none
3863DOC_START
3864 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3865 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
3866
3867 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3868 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3869 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3870 option.
3871
8c01ada0 3872 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
3873
cccac0a2 3874 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3875DOC_END
3876
3877NAME: icon_directory
3878TYPE: string
3879LOC: Config.icons.directory
3880DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3881DOC_START
3882 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
3883 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3884DOC_END
3885
f024c970 3886NAME: global_internal_static
3887TYPE: onoff
3888LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
3889DEFAULT: on
3890DOC_START
3891 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
3892 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
3893 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
3894 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
3895 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
3896 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
3897 the server generating a directory listing.
3898DOC_END
3899
e72a0ec0 3900NAME: short_icon_urls
3901TYPE: onoff
3902LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
3903DEFAULT: on
3904DOC_START
7f7db318 3905 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5ac1a5b3 3906 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
e72a0ec0 3907 it's own name and port in the URL.
3908
3909 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7f7db318 3910 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
e72a0ec0 3911DOC_END
3912
cccac0a2 3913NAME: error_directory
3914TYPE: string
3915LOC: Config.errorDirectory
3916DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
3917DOC_START
3918 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
3919 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
3920 language or company copy the template English files to another
3921 directory and point this tag at them.
3922DOC_END
3923
3924NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
3925TYPE: int
3926LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
4ed0e075 3927DEFAULT: 1
cccac0a2 3928DOC_START
3929 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
3930 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
3931 each address is tried once).
3932
4ed0e075 3933 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
cccac0a2 3934 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
3935 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
4ed0e075 3936
5ac1a5b3 3937 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
4ed0e075 3938 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
cccac0a2 3939DOC_END
3940
5894ad28 3941NAME: retry_on_error
3942TYPE: onoff
3943LOC: Config.retry.onerror
3944DEFAULT: off
3945DOC_START
3946 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
3947 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
3948 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
3949 control errors.
3950DOC_END
3951
cccac0a2 3952NAME: snmp_port
3953TYPE: ushort
3954LOC: Config.Port.snmp
3955DEFAULT: 3401
3956IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3957DOC_START
3958 Squid can now serve statistics and status information via SNMP.
3959 By default it listens to port 3401 on the machine. If you don't
3960 wish to use SNMP, set this to "0".
4ed0e075 3961
7f7db318 3962 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4ed0e075 3963 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
3964 acts on cachable requests.
cccac0a2 3965DOC_END
3966
3967NAME: snmp_access
3968TYPE: acl_access
3969LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
3970DEFAULT: none
3971DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3972IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3973DOC_START
3974 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
3975
3976 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3977 usage:
3978
3979 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3980
3981Example:
3982 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3983 snmp_access deny all
3984DOC_END
3985
3986NAME: snmp_incoming_address
3987TYPE: address
3988LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
3989DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3990IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3991DOC_NONE
3992NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
3993TYPE: address
3994LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
3995DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3996IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3997DOC_START
3998 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
3999
4000 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4001 messages from SNMP agents.
4002 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4003 agents.
4004
4005 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4006 available network interfaces.
4007
4008 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 4009 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 4010 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4011 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
4012
4013 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4014 the same value since they both use port 3401.
4015DOC_END
4016
4017NAME: as_whois_server
4018TYPE: string
4019LOC: Config.as_whois_server
4020DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
4021DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
4022DOC_START
4023 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
4024 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
4025DOC_END
4026
4027NAME: wccp_router
4028TYPE: address
4029LOC: Config.Wccp.router
4030DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4031IFDEF: USE_WCCP
0b0cfcf2 4032DOC_NONE
4033NAME: wccp2_router
4034TYPE: sockaddr_in_list
4035LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
4036DEFAULT: none
4037IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4038DOC_START
4039 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
0b0cfcf2 4040 Squid.
4041
4042 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4043
4044 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4045
4046 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4047 which version of WCCP to use.
cccac0a2 4048DOC_END
4049
4050NAME: wccp_version
4051TYPE: int
4052LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4053DEFAULT: 4
4054IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4055DOC_START
0b0cfcf2 4056 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4057 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4058 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4059 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4060 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
4061
4062 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4063 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4064 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4065 do not specify this parameter.
4066DOC_END
4067
f67332d3 4068NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4069TYPE: onoff
4070LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4071DEFAULT: on
4072IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4073DOC_START
4074 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4075 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4076DOC_END
4077
0b0cfcf2 4078NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
4079TYPE: int
4080LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
4081DEFAULT: 1
4082IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4083DOC_START
4084 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
4085 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
4086
4087 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4088 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4089
4090 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4091 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
4092DOC_END
4093
4094NAME: wccp2_return_method
4095TYPE: int
4096LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
4097DEFAULT: 1
4098IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4099DOC_START
4100 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
4101 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4102 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
4103
4104 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4105 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4106
4107 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4108 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
4109
4110 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
4111 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4112 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4113 option is set to GRE.
4114DOC_END
4115
b7d249f9 4116NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
4117TYPE: int
4118LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
4119DEFAULT: 1
4120IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4121DOC_START
4122 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4123 Valid values are as follows:
4124
4125 1 - Hash assignment
4126 2 - Mask assignment
4127
4128 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4129 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4130DOC_END
4131
0b0cfcf2 4132NAME: wccp2_service
4133TYPE: wccp2_service
4134LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4135DEFAULT: none
4136DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4137IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4138DOC_START
4139 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4140 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4141 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4142 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4143 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4144 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4145
4146 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4147 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4148
4149 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4150 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4151
4152 Examples:
4153
4154 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4155 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4156 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4157 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
4158
cccac0a2 4159DOC_END
4160
0b0cfcf2 4161NAME: wccp2_service_info
4162TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4163LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4164DEFAULT: none
4165IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4166DOC_START
4167 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4168 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4169
4170 The format is:
4171
4172 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4173 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4174
4175 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4176 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
4177 + source_port_hash, dest_port_hash
4178 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4179 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4180 + ports_source
4181
4182 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4183
4184 Example:
4185
4186 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4187 priority=240 ports=80
4188
4189 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4190 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4191DOC_END
4192
f16fbc82 4193NAME: wccp2_weight
4194TYPE: int
4195LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4196DEFAULT: 10000
4197IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4198DOC_START
4199 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4200 hash proportional to their weight.
4201DOC_END
4202
0b0cfcf2 4203NAME: wccp_address
cccac0a2 4204TYPE: address
0b0cfcf2 4205LOC: Config.Wccp.address
cccac0a2 4206DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4207IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4208DOC_NONE
0b0cfcf2 4209NAME: wccp2_address
cccac0a2 4210TYPE: address
0b0cfcf2 4211LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4212DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4213IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4214DOC_START
0b0cfcf2 4215 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4216 interface address.
cccac0a2 4217
6845f129 4218 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4219DOC_END
0976f8db 4220
0976f8db 4221
cccac0a2 4222COMMENT_START
4223 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS (all require DELAY_POOLS compilation option)
4224 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4225COMMENT_END
4226
4227NAME: delay_pools
4228TYPE: delay_pool_count
4229DEFAULT: 0
4230IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4231LOC: Config.Delay
4232DOC_START
4233 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4234 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4235 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4236DOC_END
4237
4238NAME: delay_class
4239TYPE: delay_pool_class
4240DEFAULT: none
4241IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4242LOC: Config.Delay
4243DOC_START
4244 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4245 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4246 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4247 and here would be:
4248
4249Example:
4250 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4251 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4252 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4253 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4254 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
4255
4256 The delay pool classes are:
4257
4258 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4259 bucket.
4260
4261 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4262 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
4263 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
4264
4265 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4266 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4267 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4268 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
4269 32 of the IP address.
7f7db318 4270
4271 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
cccac0a2 4272 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4273 only takes effect if the username is established
4274 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4275 http_access rules.
4276
7f7db318 4277 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
cccac0a2 4278 external_acl's tag= reply).
4279
4280 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4281 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4282 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4283 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
4284DOC_END
4285
4286NAME: delay_access
4287TYPE: delay_pool_access
4288DEFAULT: none
4289IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4290LOC: Config.Delay
4291DOC_START
4292 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
8ed8fda3 4293
4294 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4295 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4296 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4297 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4298
4299 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
cccac0a2 4300 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4301
4302Example:
4303 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4304 delay_access 1 deny all
4305 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4306 delay_access 2 deny all
4307 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4308DOC_END
4309
4310NAME: delay_parameters
4311TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4312DEFAULT: none
4313IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4314LOC: Config.Delay
4315DOC_START
4316 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4317 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4318 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4319
4320delay_parameters pool aggregate
4321
4322 For a class 2 delay pool:
4323
4324delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4325
4326 For a class 3 delay pool:
4327
4328delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4329
4330 For a class 4 delay pool:
4331
4332delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4333
4334 For a class 5 delay pool:
4335
4336delay_parameters pool tag
4337
4338 The variables here are:
4339
4340 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4341 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4342 delay_class lines.
4343
4344 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4345 (class 1, 2, 3).
4346
4347 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4348 buckets (class 2, 3).
4349
4350 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4351 (class 3).
4352
4353 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4354 (class 4).
4355
4356 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4357 (class 5).
4358
4359 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4360 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4361 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4362 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4363
4364 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4365 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4366 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4367
4368delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4369
4370 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4371
4372 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4373 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4374 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4375 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4376 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4377 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4378 large downloads more significantly:
4379
4380delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4381
4382 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4383
4384 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4385 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
7f7db318 4386
cccac0a2 4387delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4388DOC_END
4389
4390NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4391COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4392TYPE: ushort
4393DEFAULT: 50
4394IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4395LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4396DOC_START
4397 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4398 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4399 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4400 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4401 "seen" by squid).
4402DOC_END
4403
4404NAME: incoming_icp_average
4405TYPE: int
4406DEFAULT: 6
4407LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4408DOC_NONE
4409
4410NAME: incoming_http_average
4411TYPE: int
4412DEFAULT: 4
4413LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4414DOC_NONE
4415
4416NAME: incoming_dns_average
4417TYPE: int
4418DEFAULT: 4
4419LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4420DOC_NONE
4421
4422NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4423TYPE: int
4424DEFAULT: 8
4425LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4426DOC_NONE
4427
4428NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4429TYPE: int
4430DEFAULT: 8
4431LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4432DOC_NONE
4433
4434NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4435TYPE: int
4436DEFAULT: 8
4437LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4438DOC_START
4439 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4440 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4441 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4442DOC_END
4443
4444NAME: max_open_disk_fds
4445TYPE: int
4446LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
4447DEFAULT: 0
4448DOC_START
4449 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
4450 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
4451 descriptors are open.
4452
4453 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
4454DOC_END
4455
4456NAME: offline_mode
4457TYPE: onoff
4458LOC: Config.onoff.offline
4459DEFAULT: off
4460DOC_START
4461 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
4462 objects.
4463DOC_END
4464
4465NAME: uri_whitespace
4466TYPE: uri_whitespace
4467LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
4468DEFAULT: strip
4469DOC_START
4470 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
4471 URI. Options:
4472
4473 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
4474 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
4475 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
4476 Request" message.
4477 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
4478 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
4479 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
4480 are in use.
4481 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
4482 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
4483 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
4484 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
4485 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
4486 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
4487 violation.
4488DOC_END
4489
4490NAME: broken_posts
4491TYPE: acl_access
4492DEFAULT: none
4493LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4494DOC_START
4495 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4496 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4497
4498 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4499 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4500
4501 Quote from RFC 2068 section 4.1 on this matter:
4502
4503 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4504 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4505 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4506 a request with an extra CRLF.
4507
4508Example:
4509 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4510 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4511DOC_END
4512
4513NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4514IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4515TYPE: address
4516LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4517DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4518DOC_START
4519 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4520 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
4521
4522 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4523 certain you understand what you are doing.
4524DOC_END
4525
4526NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
964b44c3 4527IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
cccac0a2 4528TYPE: ushort
4529LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4530DEFAULT: 16
4531DOC_START
4532 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4533 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4534 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4535DOC_END
4536
4537NAME: mcast_miss_port
4538IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4539TYPE: ushort
4540LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4541DEFAULT: 3135
4542DOC_START
4543 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4544 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4545DOC_END
4546
4547NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4548IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4549TYPE: string
4550LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4551DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4552DOC_START
4553 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4554 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4555DOC_END
4556
4557NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
4558TYPE: onoff
4559LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
4560DEFAULT: on
4561DOC_START
4562 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4563 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cachable request type) direct
4564 to origin servers.
4565
7f7db318 4566 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
cccac0a2 4567 requests to parents.
4568
4569 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4570 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4571 ratio.
4572
7f7db318 4573 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
cccac0a2 4574 this directive.
4575DOC_END
4576
4577NAME: prefer_direct
4578TYPE: onoff
4579LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
4580DEFAULT: off
4581DOC_START
7f7db318 4582 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
cccac0a2 4583 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7f7db318 4584 going direct fails set this to on.
cccac0a2 4585
4586 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4587 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4588 fails.
4589DOC_END
4590
4591NAME: strip_query_terms
4592TYPE: onoff
4593LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
4594DEFAULT: on
4595DOC_START
4596 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
4597 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
4598DOC_END
4599
4600NAME: coredump_dir
4601TYPE: string
4602LOC: Config.coredump_dir
4603DEFAULT: none
4604DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4605DOC_START
4606 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4607 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4608 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4609 and coredump files will be left there.
4610
4611NOCOMMENT_START
5ff76111 4612# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
cccac0a2 4613coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4614NOCOMMENT_END
4615DOC_END
4616
4617NAME: redirector_bypass
4618TYPE: onoff
4619LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4620DEFAULT: off
4621DOC_START
4622 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4623 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4624 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4625 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4626 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4627 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4628 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
7f7db318 4629 users may have access to pages they should not
cccac0a2 4630 be allowed to request.
4631DOC_END
4632
4633NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
4634TYPE: onoff
4635LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
4636DEFAULT: on
4637DOC_START
4638 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7f7db318 4639 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
cccac0a2 4640 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
4641 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
4642 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
4643DOC_END
4644
4645NAME: digest_generation
4646IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4647TYPE: onoff
4648LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4649DEFAULT: on
4650DOC_START
4651 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4652 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
4653 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
4654DOC_END
4655
4656NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4657IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4658TYPE: int
4659LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4660DEFAULT: 5
4661DOC_START
4662 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4663 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4664 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4665DOC_END
4666
4667NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4668IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4669COMMENT: (seconds)
4670TYPE: time_t
4671LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4672DEFAULT: 1 hour
4673DOC_START
4674 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
4675DOC_END
4676
4677NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4678COMMENT: (seconds)
4679IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4680TYPE: time_t
4681LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4682DEFAULT: 1 hour
4683DOC_START
4684 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
4685 disk.
4686DOC_END
4687
4688NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4689COMMENT: (bytes)
4690TYPE: b_size_t
4691IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4692LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4693DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4694DOC_START
4695 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4696 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4697 default swap page.
4698DOC_END
4699
4700NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4701COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4702IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4703TYPE: int
4704LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4705DEFAULT: 10
4706DOC_START
4707 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4708 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4709DOC_END
4710
4711NAME: chroot
4712TYPE: string
4713LOC: Config.chroot_dir
4714DEFAULT: none
4715DOC_START
4716 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
4717 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
7f7db318 4718 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
cccac0a2 4719 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an
4720 error.
4721DOC_END
4722
4723NAME: client_persistent_connections
4724TYPE: onoff
4725LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4726DEFAULT: on
4727DOC_NONE
4728
4729NAME: server_persistent_connections
4730TYPE: onoff
4731LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4732DEFAULT: on
4733DOC_START
4734 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4735 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4736 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4737 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4738DOC_END
4739
58850d15 4740NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
a12a049a 4741TYPE: onoff
58850d15 4742LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4743DEFAULT: off
a12a049a 4744DOC_START
58850d15 4745 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4746 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4747 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
a12a049a 4748DOC_END
4749
21b92762 4750NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4751TYPE: onoff
4752LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4753DEFAULT: off
4754DOC_START
4755 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4756 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4757 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4758 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4759
4760 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4761 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4762 after 10 seconds timeout.
4763DOC_END
4764
58850d15 4765NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
4766TYPE: onoff
4767LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
4768DEFAULT: on
4769DOC_START
4770 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
4771 found not to preserve user session state across requests
4772 to different IP addresses.
4773
4774 By default Squid rotates IP's per request. By disabling
4775 this directive only connection failure triggers rotation.
4776DOC_END
4777
cccac0a2 4778NAME: pipeline_prefetch
4779TYPE: onoff
4780LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
4781DEFAULT: off
4782DOC_START
4783 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
4784 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5ac1a5b3 4785 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
cccac0a2 4786
4787 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
4788 reasons.
4789DOC_END
4790
4791NAME: extension_methods
4792TYPE: wordlist
4793LOC: Config.ext_methods
4794DEFAULT: none
4795DOC_START
4796 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
4797 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
4798DOC_END
4799
4800NAME: request_entities
4801TYPE: onoff
4802LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4803DEFAULT: off
4804DOC_START
4805 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4806 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4807 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4808
4809 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4810 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests.
4811DOC_END
4812
4813NAME: high_response_time_warning
4814TYPE: int
4815COMMENT: (msec)
4816LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
4817DEFAULT: 0
4818DOC_START
4819 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
4820 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
4821 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
4822DOC_END
4823
4824NAME: high_page_fault_warning
4825TYPE: int
4826LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
4827DEFAULT: 0
4828DOC_START
4829 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
4830 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4831 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
4832 per second.
4833DOC_END
4834
4835NAME: high_memory_warning
4836TYPE: b_size_t
4837LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
4838DEFAULT: 0
4839DOC_START
4840 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
4841 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4842 the administrators attention.
4843DOC_END
4844
4845NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4846TYPE: string
4847LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4848DEFAULT: least-load
4849DOC_START
4850 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
4851DOC_END
4852
4853NAME: forward_log
4854IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
4855TYPE: string
4856DEFAULT: none
4857LOC: Config.Log.forward
4858DOC_START
4859 Logs the server-side requests.
4860
4861 This is currently work in progress.
4862DOC_END
4863
4864NAME: ie_refresh
4865COMMENT: on|off
4866TYPE: onoff
4867LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4868DEFAULT: off
4869DOC_START
4870 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4871 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4872 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4873 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4874 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4875 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4876 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
7f7db318 4877 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
cccac0a2 4878 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4879 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4880 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4881 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4882 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4883 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4884 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4885 force fresh content.
4886DOC_END
4887
4888NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4889COMMENT: on|off
4890TYPE: onoff
4891LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4892DEFAULT: off
4893DOC_START
4894 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4895 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4896 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4897 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4898 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4899 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
4900 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4901DOC_END
4902
4903NAME: sleep_after_fork
4904COMMENT: (microseconds)
4905TYPE: int
4906LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
4907DEFAULT: 0
4908DOC_START
4909 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
4910 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
4911 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
4912 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7f7db318 4913 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
4914 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
cccac0a2 4915 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
4916 until all the child processes have been started.
b5d712b5 4917 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 millisencond) are
4918 rounded to 1000.
cccac0a2 4919DOC_END
4920
6a2f3fcf 4921NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4922COMMENT: (seconds)
4923TYPE: time_t
4924LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4925DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4926DOC_START
6845f129 4927 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4928 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
4929 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy enorinments it
4930 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4931 is most likely better to make your server return a
4932 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4c43e44e 4933 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4934 often be best set to 0.
6a2f3fcf 4935DOC_END
4936
df6fd596 4937NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4938COMMENT: on|off|warn
4939TYPE: tristate
4940LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4941DEFAULT: on
4942DOC_START
4943 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4944 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4945 what the sending application intended even if the message
4946 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4947 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
4948
4949 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4950 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
4951
4952 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4953 or response to be rejected.
4954DOC_END
4955
a58ff010 4956COMMENT_START
4957 ICAP OPTIONS
4958 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4959COMMENT_END
4960
4961NAME: icap_enable
4962TYPE: onoff
4963IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4964COMMENT: on|off
4965LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
4966DEFAULT: off
4967DOC_START
4968 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
4969DOC_END
4970
4971NAME: icap_preview_enable
4972TYPE: onoff
4973IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4974COMMENT: on|off
4975LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
4976DEFAULT: off
4977DOC_START
4978 Set this to 'on' if you want to enable the ICAP preview
4979 feature in Squid.
4980DOC_END
4981
4982NAME: icap_preview_size
4983TYPE: int
4984IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4985LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
4986DEFAULT: -1
4987DOC_START
4988 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
4989 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
4990 basis by OPTIONS requests.
4991DOC_END
4992
78e8cfc4 4993NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
4994TYPE: int
4995IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4996LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
4997DEFAULT: 60
4998DOC_START
4999 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5000 an Options-TTL header.
5001DOC_END
5002
12b91c99 5003NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5004TYPE: onoff
5005IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5006COMMENT: on|off
5007LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
5008DEFAULT: on
5009DOC_START
5010 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5011 an ICAP server.
5012DOC_END
5013
a58ff010 5014NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5015TYPE: onoff
5016IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5017COMMENT: on|off
5018LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
5019DEFAULT: off
5020DOC_START
5021 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
5022DOC_END
5023
12b91c99 5024NAME: icap_send_client_username
a58ff010 5025TYPE: onoff
5026IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5027COMMENT: on|off
12b91c99 5028LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
a58ff010 5029DEFAULT: off
5030DOC_START
12b91c99 5031 This adds the header "X-Client-Username" to ICAP requests
a58ff010 5032 if proxy access is authentified.
5033DOC_END
5034
a58ff010 5035NAME: icap_service
5036TYPE: icap_service_type
5037IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5038LOC: TheICAPConfig
5039DEFAULT: none
5040DOC_START
5041 Defines a single ICAP service
5042
5043 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
5044
5045 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
5046 This specifies at which point of request processing the ICAP
5047 service should be plugged in.
5048 bypass = 1|0
5049 If set to 1 and the ICAP server cannot be reached, the request will go
5050 through without being processed by an ICAP server
5051 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5052
5053 Note: reqmod_precache and respmod_postcache is not yet implemented
5054
5055Example:
5056icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5057icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
5058DOC_END
5059
5060NAME: icap_class
5061TYPE: icap_class_type
5062IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5063LOC: TheICAPConfig
5064DEFAULT: none
5065DOC_START
5066 Defines an ICAP service chain. If there are multiple services per
5067 vectoring point, they are processed in the specified order.
5068
5069 icap_class classname servicename...
5070
5071Example:
5072icap_class class_1 service_1 service_2
5073icap class class_2 service_1 service_3
5074DOC_END
5075
5076NAME: icap_access
5077TYPE: icap_access_type
5078IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5079LOC: TheICAPConfig
5080DEFAULT: none
5081DOC_START
5082 Redirects a request through an ICAP service class, depending
5083 on given acls
5084
5085 icap_access classname allow|deny [!]aclname...
5086
5087 The icap_access statements are processed in the order they appear in
5088 this configuration file. If an access list matches, the processing stops.
5089 For an "allow" rule, the specified class is used for the request. A "deny"
5090 rule simply stops processing without using the class. You can also use the
5091 special classname "None".
5092
5093 For backward compatibility, it is also possible to use services
5094 directly here.
5095Example:
5096icap_access class_1 allow all
5097DOC_END
5098
cccac0a2 5099EOF