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32
0f74202c 33COMMENT_START
448cd7c7 34 WELCOME TO SQUID 2
35 ------------------
3a278cb8 36
cf5cc17e 37 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
2b6662ba 38 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
6b8e7481 39 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 40
debd9a31 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
efd900cb 45 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
debd9a31 46 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
47 case.
48
0f74202c 49COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 50
0f74202c 51COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 52 NETWORK OPTIONS
53 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 54COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 55
934b03fc 56NAME: http_port ascii_port
7e3ce7b9 57TYPE: sockaddr_in_list
f53b06f9 58DEFAULT: none
7e3ce7b9 59LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
934b03fc 60DOC_START
7e3ce7b9 61 Usage: port
62 hostname:port
63 1.2.3.4:port
934b03fc 64
7e3ce7b9 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
69 address, then Squid binds the socket to that specific
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
efd900cb 74 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, then you
7e3ce7b9 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.
934b03fc 80
efd900cb 81 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
b9d7fe3e 82
54bab452 83 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
b9d7fe3e 84 and an external interface then we recommend you to specify the
85 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
86 visible on the internal address.
52f772de 87
88NOCOMMENT_START
89# Squid normally listens to port 3128
90http_port 3128
91NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 92DOC_END
93
1f7c9178 94NAME: https_port
95IFDEF: USE_SSL
d193a436 96TYPE: https_port_list
1f7c9178 97DEFAULT: none
98LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
99DOC_START
9690f3c5 100 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1f7c9178 101
d193a436 102 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
103 requests.
d6827718 104
1f7c9178 105 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
106 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
107 accelerator level.
1f7c9178 108
d193a436 109 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
9690f3c5 110 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
820feeed 111
112 Options:
113
114 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format)
115
116 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
117 if not specified, the certificate file is
118 assumed to be a combined certificate and
119 key file
120
121 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
122 1 automatic (default)
123 2 SSLv2 only
124 3 SSLv3 only
125 4 TLSv1 only
126
127 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers
128
129 options= Varions SSL engine options. The most important
130 being:
131 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
132 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
133 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
134 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL documentation
135 for a more complete list.
1f7c9178 136DOC_END
137
79d4ccdf 138NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
e1d9c13c 139IFDEF: USE_SSL
79d4ccdf 140TYPE: onoff
141DEFAULT: off
142LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
1f7c9178 143DOC_START
79d4ccdf 144 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
145 messages.
1f7c9178 146DOC_END
147
934b03fc 148NAME: icp_port udp_port
149TYPE: ushort
150DEFAULT: 3130
151LOC: Config.Port.icp
152DOC_START
78a0e865 153 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
934b03fc 154 and from neighbor caches. Default is 3130. To disable use
155 "0". May be overridden with -u on the command line.
934b03fc 156DOC_END
157
459f1836 158NAME: htcp_port
159IFDEF: USE_HTCP
160TYPE: ushort
161DEFAULT: 4827
162LOC: Config.Port.htcp
163DOC_START
78a0e865 164 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
459f1836 165 and from neighbor caches. Default is 4827. To disable use
166 "0".
459f1836 167DOC_END
168
934b03fc 169
170NAME: mcast_groups
171TYPE: wordlist
172LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
1273d501 173DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 174DOC_START
cf5cc17e 175 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
78a0e865 176 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
934b03fc 177
178 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
179 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
180 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
181 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
a95856a0 182 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
934b03fc 183 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
184 receive replies from multicast group members.
185
186 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
efd900cb 187 is already in use by another group of caches.
934b03fc 188
cf5cc17e 189 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
2b6662ba 190 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
cf5cc17e 191
934b03fc 192 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
193
cf5cc17e 194 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
934b03fc 195DOC_END
196
197
934b03fc 198NAME: udp_incoming_address
199TYPE: address
200LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
270b86af 201DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
934b03fc 202DOC_NONE
203
204NAME: udp_outgoing_address
205TYPE: address
206LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
270b86af 207DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
934b03fc 208DOC_START
934b03fc 209 udp_incoming_address is used for the ICP socket receiving packets
210 from other caches.
211 udp_outgoing_address is used for ICP packets sent out to other
212 caches.
213
efd900cb 214 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
934b03fc 215
4326614a 216 A udp_incoming_address value of 0.0.0.0 indicates that Squid should
217 listen for UDP messages on all available interfaces.
6b53c392 218
219 If udp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
220 then it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address. Only
221 change this if you want to have ICP queries sent using another
222 address than where this Squid listens for ICP queries from other
223 caches.
224
5a3f6538 225 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6b53c392 226 have the same value since they both use port 3130.
934b03fc 227DOC_END
228
0f74202c 229COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 230 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
231 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 232COMMENT_END
934b03fc 233
40a1495e 234NAME: cache_peer
235TYPE: peer
1273d501 236DEFAULT: none
0153d498 237LOC: Config.peers
934b03fc 238DOC_START
239 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
240
6b53c392 241 cache_peer hostname type http_port icp_port
934b03fc 242
d0d41f07 243 For example,
934b03fc 244
245 # proxy icp
246 # hostname type port port options
247 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
cf5cc17e 248 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
249 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
250 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
934b03fc 251
252 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
253
254 proxy_port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
255 requests.
256
257 icp_port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
258 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
259 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
260 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
261 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
262
263 options: proxy-only
264 weight=n
d1b63fc8 265 basetime=n
934b03fc 266 ttl=n
267 no-query
d1b63fc8 268 background-ping
934b03fc 269 default
270 round-robin
d1b63fc8 271 weighted-round-robin
934b03fc 272 multicast-responder
b3264694 273 closest-only
46b034a4 274 no-digest
223213df 275 no-netdb-exchange
95e36d02 276 no-delay
c3b33cb7 277 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
3f62decd 278 connect-timeout=nn
7e3ce7b9 279 digest-url=url
987de783 280 allow-miss
e79a6f05 281 max-conn
934b03fc 282
283 use 'proxy-only' to specify that objects fetched
284 from this cache should not be saved locally.
285
286 use 'weight=n' to specify a weighted parent.
287 The weight must be an integer. The default weight
288 is 1, larger weights are favored more.
289
d1b63fc8 290 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
291 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
292 It is subtraced before devision by weight in calculating
293 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
294 base time then the rtt is set to a minimal value.
295
934b03fc 296 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
78a0e865 297 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
934b03fc 298 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
299 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
300 hosts, you must configure other group members as
301 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
302
303 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
304 neighbor.
305
d1b63fc8 306 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
307 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
308 round trip time updated and is usually used in
309 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
310
934b03fc 311 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
312 be used as a "last-resort." You should probably
313 only use 'default' in situations where you cannot
314 use ICP with your parent cache(s).
315
316 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
317 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
318 absence of any ICP queries.
319
d1b63fc8 320 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
321 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
322 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
323 time. Closer parents are used more often.
324 Usually used for background-ping parents.
325
934b03fc 326 'multicast-responder' indicates that the named peer
327 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
328 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
329 will be accepted from it.
330
b3264694 331 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
332 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
333 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
334
46b034a4 335 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
336 this neighbor.
337
223213df 338 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
339 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
340
95e36d02 341 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
342 from influencing the delay pools.
343
c68e9c6b 344 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
345 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
4472c779 346 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
347 spaces). This also means that % must be written as %%.
c68e9c6b 348
94439e4e 349 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
ac3e1323 350 the upstream proxy. This will pass the users credentials
351 as they are to the peer proxy. This only works for the
352 Basic HTTP authentication sheme. Note: To combine this
353 with proxy_auth both proxies must share the same user
94439e4e 354 database as HTTP only allows for one proxy login.
355 Also be warned that this will expose your users proxy
ac3e1323 356 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
94439e4e 357
c3b33cb7 358 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
359 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
360 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
361 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
362 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
363 information which is added to the username. This can
364 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
365 the login=username:password option above.
366
3f62decd 367 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
368 specific connect timeout (also see the
369 peer_connect_timeout directive)
370
7e3ce7b9 371 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
372 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
373 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
374 location.
3f62decd 375
987de783 376 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
377 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
378 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
379 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
380 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
381 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
382 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
383 source is a peer)
384
e79a6f05 385 use 'max-conn' to limit the amount of connections Squid
386 may open to this peer.
387
934b03fc 388 NOTE: non-ICP neighbors must be specified as 'parent'.
934b03fc 389DOC_END
390
af7d912e 391NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
934b03fc 392TYPE: hostdomain
f1dc9b30 393DEFAULT: none
394LOC: none
934b03fc 395DOC_START
cf5cc17e 396 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
397 queried. Usage:
934b03fc 398
af7d912e 399 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
400 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
934b03fc 401
402 For example, specifying
403
af7d912e 404 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
934b03fc 405
406 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
407 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
408 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
409 with '!' means that the cache will be queried for objects
410 NOT in that domain.
411
412 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
413 either on the same or separate lines.
414 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
415 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
416 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
417 for all requests.
418 * There are no defaults.
3794b2b6 419 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
934b03fc 420 section.
421DOC_END
422
423
424NAME: neighbor_type_domain
425TYPE: hostdomaintype
f1dc9b30 426DEFAULT: none
427LOC: none
934b03fc 428DOC_START
429 usage: neighbor_type_domain parent|sibling domain domain ...
430
431 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
432 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
a95856a0 433 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
934b03fc 434 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
435 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
436 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
437
438EXAMPLE:
a95856a0 439 cache_peer parent cache.foo.org 3128 3130
934b03fc 440 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
441 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
442DOC_END
443
465dc415 444NAME: icp_query_timeout
445COMMENT: (msec)
446DEFAULT: 0
447TYPE: int
448LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
934b03fc 449DOC_START
465dc415 450 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
451 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
452 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
453 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
454 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
455 timeout (the old default), you would write:
934b03fc 456
465dc415 457 icp_query_timeout 2000
465dc415 458DOC_END
459
28993292 460NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
461COMMENT: (msec)
462DEFAULT: 2000
463TYPE: int
464LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
465DOC_START
efd900cb 466 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
467 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
468 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
469 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
e0d5ba83 470 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
471 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
28993292 472DOC_END
473
43af4d27 474NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
475COMMENT: (msec)
476DEFAULT: 5
477TYPE: int
ce6113a2 478LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
43af4d27 479DOC_START
480 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
481 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
482 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
483 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
484 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
485 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
486 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
487DOC_END
488
465dc415 489NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
490COMMENT: (msec)
491DEFAULT: 2000
492TYPE: int
493LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
494DOC_START
495 For Multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
496 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
497 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
498 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
499 seconds.
934b03fc 500DOC_END
501
dc835977 502NAME: dead_peer_timeout
503COMMENT: (seconds)
504DEFAULT: 10 seconds
505TYPE: time_t
506LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
507DOC_START
508 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
509 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
510 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
511 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
512 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
513 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
514
a8ad9a81 515 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
516 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
517 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
518 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
519 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
520 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
521 instead of to your parents.
dc835977 522DOC_END
523
934b03fc 524
525NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
526TYPE: wordlist
f8d9f54a 527DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 528LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
529DOC_START
530 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
531 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
532 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
533 list this option multiple times.
6b53c392 534NOCOMMENT_START
535#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
934b03fc 536hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b53c392 537NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 538DOC_END
539
540
bd05e3e3 541NAME: no_cache
542TYPE: acl_access
543DEFAULT: none
544LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
934b03fc 545DOC_START
d08a99eb 546 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
547 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
548 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
934b03fc 549
b269cf4e 550 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
551 NOT be cached.
0fdafae7 552
6b53c392 553NOCOMMENT_START
554#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
bd05e3e3 555acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
b269cf4e 556no_cache deny QUERY
6b53c392 557NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 558DOC_END
559
d1b63fc8 560NAME: background_ping_rate
561COMMENT: time-units
562TYPE: time_t
563DEFAULT: 10 seconds
564LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
565DOC_START
566 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
567 have background-ping set.
568DOC_END
569
934b03fc 570
0f74202c 571COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 572 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE CACHE SIZE
573 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 574COMMENT_END
934b03fc 575
576NAME: cache_mem
9906e724 577COMMENT: (bytes)
1b635117 578TYPE: b_size_t
9906e724 579DEFAULT: 8 MB
43a70238 580LOC: Config.memMaxSize
934b03fc 581DOC_START
fab315fd 582 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
583 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
584 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
585 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
7b2496ca 586
587 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
588 for:
589 * In-Transit objects
590 * Hot Objects
591 * Negative-Cached objects
592
593 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
594 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
595 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
596 priority.
934b03fc 597
598 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
599 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
600 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
601 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
602 not needed for in-transit objects.
603
7b2496ca 604 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
605 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
606 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
607 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
608 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
609 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
610 objects.
934b03fc 611DOC_END
612
613
614NAME: cache_swap_low
615COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
616TYPE: int
617DEFAULT: 90
618LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
619DOC_NONE
620
621NAME: cache_swap_high
622COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
623TYPE: int
624DEFAULT: 95
625LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
626DOC_START
2b906e48 627
628 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
629 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
630 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
631 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
632 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
633 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
634
635 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
636 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
637 numbers closer together.
934b03fc 638DOC_END
639
934b03fc 640NAME: maximum_object_size
9e975e4e 641COMMENT: (bytes)
1b635117 642TYPE: b_size_t
9906e724 643DEFAULT: 4096 KB
934b03fc 644LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
645DOC_START
646 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
cf5cc17e 647 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
648 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
649 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
650 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
651 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
934b03fc 652
2b906e48 653 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
654 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
655 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
934b03fc 656DOC_END
657
d20b1cd0 658NAME: minimum_object_size
659COMMENT: (bytes)
660TYPE: b_size_t
661DEFAULT: 0 KB
662LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
663DOC_START
664 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
665 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
666 means there is no minimum.
667DOC_END
934b03fc 668
16689110 669NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
670COMMENT: (bytes)
671TYPE: b_size_t
672DEFAULT: 8 KB
673LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
674DOC_START
675 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
676 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
677 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
678 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem .
679DOC_END
680
934b03fc 681NAME: ipcache_size
682COMMENT: (number of entries)
683TYPE: int
684DEFAULT: 1024
685LOC: Config.ipcache.size
686DOC_NONE
687
688NAME: ipcache_low
689COMMENT: (percent)
690TYPE: int
691DEFAULT: 90
692LOC: Config.ipcache.low
693DOC_NONE
694
695NAME: ipcache_high
696COMMENT: (percent)
697TYPE: int
698DEFAULT: 95
699LOC: Config.ipcache.high
700DOC_START
701 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
934b03fc 702DOC_END
703
e55650e3 704NAME: fqdncache_size
705COMMENT: (number of entries)
706TYPE: int
707DEFAULT: 1024
708LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
709DOC_START
710 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
e55650e3 711DOC_END
712
6a566b9c 713NAME: cache_replacement_policy
714TYPE: removalpolicy
715LOC: Config.replPolicy
716DEFAULT: lru
717DOC_START
718 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
719 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
720
721 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
722 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
723 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
724 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
725
726 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
727
728 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
729
730 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
731 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
732 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
733 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
734
735 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
736 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
737 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
738 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
739
740 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
741 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
742 replacement policies.
743
744 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
745 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
96d88dcb 746 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
6a566b9c 747
748 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
749 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
750 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
751DOC_END
752
753NAME: memory_replacement_policy
754TYPE: removalpolicy
755LOC: Config.memPolicy
756DEFAULT: lru
757DOC_START
758 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
759 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
760
761 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
762DOC_END
763
764
0f74202c 765COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 766 LOGFILE PATHNAMES AND CACHE DIRECTORIES
767 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 768COMMENT_END
934b03fc 769
770NAME: cache_dir
771TYPE: cachedir
f1dc9b30 772DEFAULT: none
8e8d4f30 773DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
f1dc9b30 774LOC: Config.cacheSwap
934b03fc 775DOC_START
cf5cc17e 776 Usage:
777
8e8d4f30 778 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
934b03fc 779
1f7c9178 780 cache_dir diskd Maxobjsize Directory-Name MB L1 L2 Q1 Q2
781
934b03fc 782 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
783 cache among different disk partitions.
784
c463eb5f 785 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
786 is built by default. To eanble any of the other storage systems
787 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
9bc73deb 788
cf5cc17e 789 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
790 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
791 for caching, then this can be the mount-point directory.
792 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
793 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
794
8e8d4f30 795 The ufs store type:
796
797 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
798 been there.
799
800 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
cf5cc17e 801
802 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
803 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
804 configuration.
805
806 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
807 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
808
809 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
810 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
811 is 256.
d1595b77 812
8e8d4f30 813 The aufs store type:
814
815 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
816 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
817 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
818
819 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
820
821 see argument descriptions under ufs above
822
823 The diskd store type:
824
825 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
826 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
827 disk-I/O.
828
829 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
830
831 see argument descriptions under ufs above
832
833 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
834 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
835 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
836
d1595b77 837 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
838 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
8e8d4f30 839 Squid blocks until it recevies some replies. Default is 72
840
841 Common options:
842
843 read-only, this cache_dir is read only.
844
845 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
846 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
847 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
848 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
849 ones with no max-size specification last.
934b03fc 850DOC_END
851
852
853NAME: cache_access_log
854TYPE: string
d0b98f84 855DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@
934b03fc 856LOC: Config.Log.access
857DOC_START
858 Logs the client request activity. Contains an entry for
0eb83825 859 every HTTP and ICP queries received. To disable, enter "none".
934b03fc 860DOC_END
861
862
863NAME: cache_log
864TYPE: string
0153d498 865DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
934b03fc 866LOC: Config.Log.log
867DOC_START
cf5cc17e 868 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
efd900cb 869 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
cf5cc17e 870 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
934b03fc 871DOC_END
872
873
874NAME: cache_store_log
875TYPE: string
0153d498 876DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
934b03fc 877LOC: Config.Log.store
878DOC_START
879 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
880 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
cf5cc17e 881 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
efd900cb 882 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
cf5cc17e 883 disable it.
934b03fc 884DOC_END
885
886
887NAME: cache_swap_log
888TYPE: string
889LOC: Config.Log.swap
1273d501 890DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 891DOC_START
d0d3ec94 892 Location for the cache "swap.log." This log file holds the
934b03fc 893 metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild the
a80e50c7 894 cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
934b03fc 895 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
896 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
cf5cc17e 897 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
898 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
934b03fc 899
a80e50c7 900 If %s can be used in the file name then it will be replaced with a
901 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
902 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
903 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
96d88dcb 904
a80e50c7 905 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
906 then these swap logs will have names such as:
710df4ca 907
908 cache_swap_log.00
909 cache_swap_log.01
910 cache_swap_log.02
911
912 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
913 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
914 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
915 lines in this file, then these log files will NOT correspond to
916 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
917 them). We recommend that you do NOT use this option. It is
918 better to keep these log files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
934b03fc 919DOC_END
920
921
922NAME: emulate_httpd_log
923COMMENT: on|off
924TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 925DEFAULT: off
17a0a4ee 926LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
934b03fc 927DOC_START
928 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
929 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
930 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
cf5cc17e 931 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
efd900cb 932 information that Squid-specific log analyzers use.
934b03fc 933DOC_END
934
890b0fa8 935NAME: log_ip_on_direct
936COMMENT: on|off
937TYPE: onoff
938DEFAULT: on
939LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
940DOC_START
941 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
942 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
943 prefer the old way set this to off.
890b0fa8 944DOC_END
934b03fc 945
946NAME: mime_table
f0b19334 947TYPE: string
0153d498 948DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
934b03fc 949LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
950DOC_START
cf5cc17e 951 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
952 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
953 information if you do.
934b03fc 954DOC_END
955
956
957NAME: log_mime_hdrs
958COMMENT: on|off
959TYPE: onoff
17a0a4ee 960LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
f1dc9b30 961DEFAULT: off
934b03fc 962DOC_START
cf5cc17e 963 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
964 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
965 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
966 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
967 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
934b03fc 968DOC_END
969
970
971NAME: useragent_log
972TYPE: string
973LOC: Config.Log.useragent
f1dc9b30 974DEFAULT: none
6b53c392 975IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
934b03fc 976DOC_START
6b53c392 977 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
978 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
979 is disabled.
934b03fc 980DOC_END
981
982
fd2c5549 983NAME: referer_log
984TYPE: string
985LOC: Config.Log.referer
986DEFAULT: none
b81f1cf3 987IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
fd2c5549 988DOC_START
b81f1cf3 989 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
990 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
fd2c5549 991DOC_END
992
993
934b03fc 994NAME: pid_filename
995TYPE: string
0153d498 996DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
934b03fc 997LOC: Config.pidFilename
998DOC_START
d0d41f07 999 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
934b03fc 1000DOC_END
1001
1002
1003NAME: debug_options
f1dc9b30 1004TYPE: eol
934b03fc 1005DEFAULT: ALL,1
1006LOC: Config.debugOptions
1007DOC_START
1008 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
1009 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
1010 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
1011 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
1012 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
1013 "ALL,1".
934b03fc 1014DOC_END
1015
1016
934b03fc 1017NAME: log_fqdn
1018COMMENT: on|off
1019TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 1020DEFAULT: off
17a0a4ee 1021LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
934b03fc 1022DOC_START
1023 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
cf5cc17e 1024 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
1025 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
1026 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
96d88dcb 1027 browsing.
934b03fc 1028DOC_END
1029
1030
1031NAME: client_netmask
1032TYPE: address
1033LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
f1dc9b30 1034DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
934b03fc 1035DOC_START
1036 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
1037 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
cf5cc17e 1038 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
1039 the last digit set to '0'.
934b03fc 1040DOC_END
1041
1042
0f74202c 1043COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 1044 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
1045 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 1046COMMENT_END
934b03fc 1047
934b03fc 1048NAME: ftp_user
1049TYPE: string
cf5cc17e 1050DEFAULT: Squid@
934b03fc 1051LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
1052DOC_START
1053 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
1054 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
efd900cb 1055 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
934b03fc 1056
1057 The reason why this is domainless by default is that the
1058 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
1059 depending on how the cache is used.
1060 Some ftp server also validate that the email address is valid
1061 (for example perl.com).
934b03fc 1062DOC_END
1063
365cb147 1064NAME: ftp_list_width
1b635117 1065TYPE: size_t
365cb147 1066DEFAULT: 32
1067LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
1068DOC_START
cf5cc17e 1069 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
1070 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
1071 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
365cb147 1072DOC_END
1073
d20b1cd0 1074NAME: ftp_passive
1075TYPE: onoff
1076DEFAULT: on
1077LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
1078DOC_START
1079 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
1080 connections, then turn off this option.
1081DOC_END
1082
00c5afca 1083NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
1084TYPE: onoff
1085DEFAULT: on
1086LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
1087DOC_START
1088 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
1089 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
1090 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
1091 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
1092 connection then turn this off.
1093DOC_END
1094
934b03fc 1095NAME: cache_dns_program
f0b19334 1096TYPE: string
589c90de 1097IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
0153d498 1098DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
934b03fc 1099LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
1100DOC_START
1101 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
934b03fc 1102DOC_END
1103
934b03fc 1104NAME: dns_children
1105TYPE: int
6b53c392 1106IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
934b03fc 1107DEFAULT: 5
1108LOC: Config.dnsChildren
1109DOC_START
1110 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
1111 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
1112 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
1113 is 32. The default is 5.
1114
efd900cb 1115 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
934b03fc 1116DOC_END
1117
4fe0e1d0 1118NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
1119TYPE: time_t
1120DEFAULT: 5 seconds
1121LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
1122IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1123DOC_START
1124 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
1125 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
1126
1127DOC_END
1128
1129NAME: dns_timeout
1130TYPE: time_t
1131DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1132LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
1133IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1134DOC_START
1135 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
1136 within this time then all DNS servers for the queried domain
1137 is assumed to be unavailable.
1138DOC_END
934b03fc 1139
1140NAME: dns_defnames
1141COMMENT: on|off
589c90de 1142IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
934b03fc 1143TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 1144DEFAULT: off
17a0a4ee 1145LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
6b53c392 1146IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
934b03fc 1147DOC_START
1148 Normally the 'dnsserver' disables the RES_DEFNAMES resolver
1149 option (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
1150 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
1151 dnsserver to handle single-component names, enable this
1152 option.
934b03fc 1153DOC_END
1154
09c483ec 1155NAME: dns_nameservers
1156TYPE: wordlist
1157DEFAULT: none
1158LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
1159DOC_START
1160 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
1161 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
1162 /etc/resolv.conf file.
836d6233 1163 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
1164 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
1165 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
1166 configurations are supported.
09c483ec 1167
1168 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
09c483ec 1169DOC_END
1170
0e70aa1e 1171NAME: hosts_file
1172TYPE: string
1173DEFAULT: /etc/hosts
1174LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
1175DOC_START
1176 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
1177 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file: under
1178 Un*X it's by default in /etc/hosts MS-Windows NT/2000 places
1179 that in %SystemRoot%(by default
1180 c:\winnt)\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, while Windows 9x/ME
1181 places that in %windir%(usually c:\windows)\hosts
1182
1183 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
1184 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
1185 whitespace-separated. lines beginnng with an hash (#)
1186 character are comments.
1187
1188 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration. If
1189 set to 'none', it won't be checked. If append_domain is
1190 used, that domain will be added to domain-local (i.e. not
1191 containing any dot character) host definitions.
1192DOC_END
934b03fc 1193
be7d89d4 1194NAME: diskd_program
1195TYPE: string
1196DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
1197LOC: Config.Program.diskd
1198DOC_START
1199 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
1200 Note that this is only useful if you have compiled in
1201 diskd as one of the store io modules.
1202DOC_END
1203
934b03fc 1204NAME: unlinkd_program
a3d0a19d 1205IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
f0b19334 1206TYPE: string
0153d498 1207DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
934b03fc 1208LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
1209DOC_START
1210 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
934b03fc 1211DOC_END
1212
934b03fc 1213NAME: pinger_program
a95856a0 1214TYPE: string
0153d498 1215DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
934b03fc 1216LOC: Config.Program.pinger
6b53c392 1217IFDEF: USE_ICMP
934b03fc 1218DOC_START
1219 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
934b03fc 1220DOC_END
1221
1222
1223NAME: redirect_program
c6d5b87b 1224TYPE: wordlist
934b03fc 1225LOC: Config.Program.redirect
62607543 1226DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 1227DOC_START
1228 Specify the location of the executable for the URL redirector.
cf5cc17e 1229 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3f94eab9 1230 See the FAQ (section 15) for information on how to write one.
cf5cc17e 1231 By default, a redirector is not used.
934b03fc 1232DOC_END
1233
1234
1235NAME: redirect_children
1236TYPE: int
1237DEFAULT: 5
1238LOC: Config.redirectChildren
1239DOC_START
cf5cc17e 1240 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
1241 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
1242 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
1243 and other system resources.
934b03fc 1244DOC_END
1245
c68e9c6b 1246NAME: redirect_rewrites_host_header
1247TYPE: onoff
1248DEFAULT: on
1249LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
1250DOC_START
7e3ce7b9 1251 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
54bab452 1252 requests. If you are running an accelerator then this may
7e3ce7b9 1253 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
c68e9c6b 1254DOC_END
1255
9bc73deb 1256NAME: redirector_access
1257TYPE: acl_access
1258DEFAULT: none
1259LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
1260DOC_START
1261 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
1262 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
1263 are sent.
1264DOC_END
1265
94439e4e 1266NAME: auth_param
1267TYPE: authparam
1268LOC: Config.authConfig
73e67ee0 1269DEFAULT: none
1270DOC_START
94439e4e 1271 This is used to pass parameters to the various authentication
1272 schemes.
1273 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
1274
1275 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
1276 would tell the basic authentication scheme it's program parameter.
1277
1278 The order that authentication prompts are presented to the client_agent
1279 is dependant on the order the scheme first appears in config file.
1280 IE has a bug (it's not rfc 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
1281 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure schemes
1282 are presented. For now use the order in the file below. If other browsers
1283 have difficulties (don't recognise the schemes offered even if you are using
1284 basic) then either put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting
1285 out their program entry).
1286
2d70df72 1287 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be shutdown
1288 by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on the fly and
96d88dcb 1289 activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a different helper,
2d70df72 1290 but not unconfigure the helper completely.
1291
94439e4e 1292 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
1293
1294 "program" cmdline
6c20b822 1295 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1296 program reads a line containing "username password" and replies
1297 "OK" or "ERR" in an endless loop. If you use an authenticator,
1298 make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth. By default, the
94439e4e 1299 authenticate_program is not used.
73e67ee0 1300
6c20b822 1301 If you want to use the traditional proxy authentication,
1302 jump over to the ../auth_modules/NCSA directory and
1303 type:
1304 % make
1305 % make install
73e67ee0 1306
6c20b822 1307 Then, set this line to something like
73e67ee0 1308
94439e4e 1309 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
73e67ee0 1310
94439e4e 1311 "children" numberofchildren
1312 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default). If you
73e67ee0 1313 start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog
1314 of usercode/password verifications, slowing it down. When password
1315 verifications are done via a (slow) network you are likely to need
1316 lots of authenticator processes.
94439e4e 1317 auth_param basic children 5
1318
1319 "realm" realmstring
1320 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the client for
1321 the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of the text the user will
1322 see when prompted their username and password). Their is no default.
1323 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1324
1325 "credentialsttl" timetolive
1326 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated username:password
96d88dcb 1327 pair is valid for - in other words how often the helper program is called
94439e4e 1328 for that user. Set this low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
1329 Note that setting this high does not impact your susceptability to replay
54bab452 1330 attacks unless you are using an one-time password system (such as SecureID).
94439e4e 1331 If you are using such a system, you will be vulnerable to replay attacks
1332 unless you also enable the IP ttl is strict option.
1333
2d70df72 1334 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
1335
1336 "program" cmdline
1337 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1338 program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and replies
1339 with the appropriate H(A1) value base64 encoded. See rfc 2616 for
1340 the definition of H(A1). If you use an authenticator,
96d88dcb 1341 make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth. By default,
2d70df72 1342 authentication is not used.
1343
54bab452 1344 If you want to use build an authenticator,
96d88dcb 1345 jump over to the ../digest_auth_modules directory and choose the
2d70df72 1346 authenticator to use. It it's directory type
1347 % make
1348 % make install
1349
1350 Then, set this line to something like
1351
1352 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
1353
1354
1355 "children" numberofchildren
1356 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default). If you
1357 start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog
1358 of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down. When the H(A1) calculations
96d88dcb 1359 are done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
2d70df72 1360 authenticator processes.
1361 auth_param digest children 5
1362
1363 "realm" realmstring
1364 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the client for
1365 the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of the text the user will
1366 see when prompted their username and password). There is no default.
1367 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1368
1369 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
1370 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued to client_agent's
1371 are checked for validity.
1372
1373 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
96d88dcb 1374 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be valid for.
2d70df72 1375
1376 "nonce_max_count" number
1377 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be used.
1378
d205783b 1379 "nonce_strictness" on|off
1380 Determines if squid requires increment-by-1 behaviour for nonce counts
1381 (on - the default), or strictly incrementing (off - for use when useragents
1382 generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1 (ie, 1,2,4,6)).
1383
94439e4e 1384 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
1385
1386 "program" cmdline
1387 Specify the command for the external ntlm authenticator. Such a
1388 program reads a line containing the uuencoded NEGOTIATE and replies
1389 with the ntlm CHALLENGE, then waits for the response and answers with
1390 "OK" or "ERR" in an endless loop. If you use an ntlm authenticator,
1391 make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth. By default, the
1392 ntlm authenticator_program is not used.
1393
1394 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
1395
1396 "children" numberofchildren
1397 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default). If you
1398 start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog
1399 of credential verifications, slowing it down. When crendential
1400 verifications are done via a (slow) network you are likely to need
1401 lots of authenticator processes.
1402 auth_param ntlm children 5
1403
1404 "max_challenge_reuses" number
1405 The maximum number of times a challenge given by a ntlm authentication
96d88dcb 1406 helper can be reused. Increasing this number increases your exposure
1407 to replay attacks on your network. 0 means use the challenge only once.
94439e4e 1408 (disable challenge caching)
1409 See max_ntlm_challenge_lifetime for more information.
1410 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1411
1412 "max_challenge_lifetime" timespan
1413 The maximum time period that a ntlm challenge is reused over.
96d88dcb 1414 The actual period will be the minimum of this time AND the number of
94439e4e 1415 reused challenges.
1416 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
1417
1418NOCOMMENT_START
1419#Recommended minimum configuration:
2d70df72 1420#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
1421#auth_param digest children 5
1422#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1423#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
1424#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
1425#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
94439e4e 1426#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
2d70df72 1427#auth_param ntlm children 5
1428#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1429#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
94439e4e 1430#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
1431auth_param basic children 5
1432auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1433auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
1434NOCOMMENT_END
1435DOC_END
1436
1437NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
1438TYPE: time_t
1439DEFAULT: 1 hour
1440LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
1441DOC_START
96d88dcb 1442 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
94439e4e 1443 This is a tradeoff between memory utilisation (long intervals - say
1444 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if
1445 you have good reason to.
73e67ee0 1446DOC_END
1447
c68e9c6b 1448NAME: authenticate_ttl
70a76033 1449TYPE: time_t
1450DEFAULT: 1 hour
c68e9c6b 1451LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
1452DOC_START
94439e4e 1453 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in user cache
1454 since their last request. When the garbage interval passes, all
1455 user credentials that have passed their TTL are removed from memory.
c68e9c6b 1456DOC_END
1457
9bc73deb 1458NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
70a76033 1459TYPE: time_t
9bc73deb 1460LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
70a76033 1461DEFAULT: 0 seconds
9bc73deb 1462DOC_START
1463 With this option you control how long a proxy authentication
1464 will be bound to a specific IP address. If a request using
1465 the same user name is received during this time then access
1466 will be denied and both users are required to reauthenticate
1467 them selves. The idea behind this is to make it annoying
1468 for people to share their password to their friends, but
1469 yet allow a dialup user to reconnect on a different dialup
1470 port.
1471
1472 The default is 0 to disable the check. Recommended value
70a76033 1473 if you have dialup users are no more than 60 seconds to allow
1474 the user to redial without hassle. If all your users are
1475 stationary then higher values may be used.
1476
1cdf9bc1 1477 See also the acl max_user_ip. The max_user_ip acl replaces
b0213b00 1478 the authenticate_ip_ttl_is_strict option found in earlier
1479 Squid versions.
9bc73deb 1480DOC_END
1481
d9572179 1482NAME: external_acl_type
1483TYPE: externalAclHelper
1484LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
1485DEFAULT: none
1486DOC_START
1487 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
1488 to look up the status
1489
1490 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
1491
1492 Options:
1493
1494 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
1495 for 1 hour)
1496 negative_ttl=n
1497 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
1498 as ttl)
94a04679 1499 concurrency=n Concurrency level / number of processes spawn
d9572179 1500 to service external acl lookups of this type.
1501 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
1502
d9572179 1503 FORMAT specifications
1504
1505 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
1506 %IDENT Ident user name
1507 %SRC Client IP
1508 %DST Requested host
1509 %PROTO Requested protocol
1510 %PORT Requested port
1511 %METHOD Request method
1512 %{Header} HTTP request header
1513 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
1514 %{Hdr:;member}
1515 HTTP request header list member using ; as
1516 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
1517 character.
1518
1519 In addition, any string specified in the referencing acl will also be
1520 included in the helper request line, after the specified formats
1521 (see the acl directive)
1522
87e6f180 1523 The helper receives lines per the above FORMAT specification, and
1524 returns OK or ERR indicating the validity of the request, and
1525 optionally additional keywords with additional details.
1526
1527 General result syntax:
1528
1529 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
1530
1531 Keywords:
1532
1533 user= The users name (login)
1534 error= Error description (only defined for ERR results)
1535
1536 Keyword values need to be enclosed in quotes if they may contain
1537 whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \. Any quotes or \
1538 characters in the result must be \ escaped.
d9572179 1539DOC_END
1540
0f74202c 1541COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 1542 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
1543 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 1544COMMENT_END
934b03fc 1545
0153d498 1546NAME: wais_relay_host
1547TYPE: string
1273d501 1548DEFAULT: none
0153d498 1549LOC: Config.Wais.relayHost
1550DOC_NONE
934b03fc 1551
0153d498 1552NAME: wais_relay_port
1553TYPE: ushort
1554DEFAULT: 0
1555LOC: Config.Wais.relayPort
934b03fc 1556DOC_START
1557 Relay WAIS request to host (1st arg) at port (2 arg).
934b03fc 1558DOC_END
1559
1560
0483b991 1561NAME: request_header_max_size
1562COMMENT: (KB)
1563TYPE: b_size_t
1564DEFAULT: 10 KB
1565LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
1566DOC_START
1567 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
1568 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
1569 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
1570 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
1571 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
0483b991 1572DOC_END
1573
1574NAME: request_body_max_size
9906e724 1575COMMENT: (KB)
518da0bd 1576TYPE: b_size_t
ec719ae2 1577DEFAULT: 0 KB
0483b991 1578LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
934b03fc 1579DOC_START
0483b991 1580 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
1581 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
1582 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
1583 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
ec719ae2 1584 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
1585 be no limit imposed.
0483b991 1586DOC_END
934b03fc 1587
934b03fc 1588NAME: refresh_pattern
934b03fc 1589TYPE: refreshpattern
f1dc9b30 1590LOC: Config.Refresh
1273d501 1591DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 1592DOC_START
7ddc902f 1593 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
1594
1595 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
1596 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
934b03fc 1597
7e3ce7b9 1598 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
1599 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
1600 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
efd900cb 1601 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
7e3ce7b9 1602 has taken the appropriate actions.
1603
1604 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
efd900cb 1605 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
7e3ce7b9 1606 will be considered fresh.
1607
1608 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
1609 expiry time will be considered fresh.
934b03fc 1610
c20d16c0 1611 options: override-expire
1dfa1d81 1612 override-lastmod
cbe3a719 1613 reload-into-ims
1614 ignore-reload
1dfa1d81 1615
1616 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
cbe3a719 1617 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
1618 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
1619 for problems which it causes.
1dfa1d81 1620
1621 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
1622 that was modified recently.
cbe3a719 1623
1624 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
1625 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
1626 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
1627 liable for problems which it causes.
1628
1629 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
1630 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
1631 this feature could make you liable for problems which
1632 it causes.
1dfa1d81 1633
934b03fc 1634 Please see the file doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt for a full
1635 description of Squid's refresh algorithm. Basically a
1dfa1d81 1636 cached object is: (the order is changed from 1.1.X)
934b03fc 1637
1dfa1d81 1638 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
6b8e7481 1639 STALE if age > max
1dfa1d81 1640 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
1641 FRESH if age < min
1642 else STALE
934b03fc 1643
1644 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
1645 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
1646 match, then the default will be used.
1647
6b53c392 1648 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
1649 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
1650 used.
8e89beb3 1651
1652Suggested default:
1653NOCOMMENT_START
1654refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
1655refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
1656refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
1657NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 1658DOC_END
1659
934b03fc 1660NAME: reference_age
f1dc9b30 1661TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1662LOC: Config.referenceAge
f1dc9b30 1663DEFAULT: 1 year
934b03fc 1664DOC_START
1665 As a part of normal operation, Squid performs Least Recently
1666 Used removal of cached objects. The LRU age for removal is
1667 computed dynamically, based on the amount of disk space in
6778c757 1668 use. The dynamic value can be seen in the Cache Manager 'info'
1669 output.
1670
1671 The 'reference_age' parameter defines the maximum LRU age. For
1672 example, setting reference_age to '1 week' will cause objects
1673 to be removed if they have not been accessed for a week or
7e3ce7b9 1674 more. The default value is one year.
934b03fc 1675
1676 Specify a number here, followed by units of time. For example:
1677 1 week
1678 3.5 days
1679 4 months
1680 2.2 hours
1681
2b906e48 1682 NOTE: this parameter is not used when using the enhanced
1683 replacement policies, GDSH or LFUDA.
934b03fc 1684DOC_END
1685
1686
0153d498 1687NAME: quick_abort_min
9906e724 1688COMMENT: (KB)
1689TYPE: kb_size_t
c68e9c6b 1690DEFAULT: 16 KB
0153d498 1691LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
1692DOC_NONE
1693
0153d498 1694NAME: quick_abort_max
9906e724 1695COMMENT: (KB)
1696TYPE: kb_size_t
6b53c392 1697DEFAULT: 16 KB
0153d498 1698LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
1b2f5c2f 1699DOC_NONE
1700
1701NAME: quick_abort_pct
1702COMMENT: (percent)
1703TYPE: int
c68e9c6b 1704DEFAULT: 95
1b2f5c2f 1705LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
934b03fc 1706DOC_START
9923e308 1707 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
7a61d612 1708 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
1709 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
1710 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
1711 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
1712 downloads.
934b03fc 1713
1714 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
1715 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
1716 then.
1717
cf5cc17e 1718 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2bb84b43 1719 it will finish the retrieval.
934b03fc 1720
cf5cc17e 1721 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
1722 it will abort the retrieval.
934b03fc 1723
1b2f5c2f 1724 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
1725 it will finish the retrieval.
2bb84b43 1726
7a61d612 1727 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2bb84b43 1728 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
1729 to '0 KB'.
1730
9923e308 1731 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
2bb84b43 1732 cached then set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
934b03fc 1733DOC_END
1734
7e820f36 1735NAME: read_ahead_gap
1736COMMENT: buffer-size
1737TYPE: kb_size_t
1738LOC: Config.readAheadGap
1739DEFAULT: 16 KB
1740DOC_START
1741 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
1742 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
1743DOC_END
934b03fc 1744
1745NAME: negative_ttl
bc0eb004 1746COMMENT: time-units
f1dc9b30 1747TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1748LOC: Config.negativeTtl
9e975e4e 1749DEFAULT: 5 minutes
934b03fc 1750DOC_START
1751 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
1752 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
cf5cc17e 1753 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
1754 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
1755 negative caching of DNS lookups.
934b03fc 1756DOC_END
1757
1758
1759NAME: positive_dns_ttl
bc0eb004 1760COMMENT: time-units
f1dc9b30 1761TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1762LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
9e975e4e 1763DEFAULT: 6 hours
934b03fc 1764DOC_START
1765 Time-to-Live (TTL) for positive caching of successful DNS lookups.
1766 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). If you want to minimize the
1767 use of Squid's ipcache, set this to 1, not 0.
934b03fc 1768DOC_END
1769
1770
1771NAME: negative_dns_ttl
bc0eb004 1772COMMENT: time-units
f1dc9b30 1773TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1774LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
9e975e4e 1775DEFAULT: 5 minutes
934b03fc 1776DOC_START
1777 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
934b03fc 1778DOC_END
1779
c68e9c6b 1780NAME: range_offset_limit
1781COMMENT: (bytes)
1782TYPE: b_size_t
1783LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
1784DEFAULT: 0 KB
1785DOC_START
1786 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
1787 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
1788 limit then Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
1789 is NOT cached.
1790
1791 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
1792 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
1793 sending anything to the client.
1794
1795 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
1796 beginning so that it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
1797
6e7dbcbd 1798 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
c68e9c6b 1799 client requested. (default)
c68e9c6b 1800DOC_END
1801
1802
0f74202c 1803COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 1804 TIMEOUTS
1805 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 1806COMMENT_END
934b03fc 1807
1808NAME: connect_timeout
bc0eb004 1809COMMENT: time-units
f1dc9b30 1810TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1811LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
9e975e4e 1812DEFAULT: 2 minutes
934b03fc 1813DOC_START
1814 Some systems (notably Linux) can not be relied upon to properly
cf5cc17e 1815 time out connect(2) requests. Therefore the Squid process
934b03fc 1816 enforces its own timeout on server connections. This parameter
1817 specifies how long to wait for the connect to complete. The
1818 default is two minutes (120 seconds).
934b03fc 1819DOC_END
1820
3f62decd 1821NAME: peer_connect_timeout
1822COMMENT: time-units
1823TYPE: time_t
1824LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
1825DEFAULT: 30 seconds
1826DOC_START
1827 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
1828 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
1829 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
1830 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
9bc73deb 1831DOC_END
3f62decd 1832
23d92c64 1833NAME: siteselect_timeout
1834COMMENT: time-units
1835TYPE: time_t
1836LOC: Config.Timeout.siteSelect
1837DEFAULT: 4 seconds
1838DOC_START
1839 For URN to multiple URL's URL selection
23d92c64 1840DOC_END
934b03fc 1841
1842NAME: read_timeout
bc0eb004 1843COMMENT: time-units
f1dc9b30 1844TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1845LOC: Config.Timeout.read
9e975e4e 1846DEFAULT: 15 minutes
934b03fc 1847DOC_START
1848 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
1849 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
1850 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
1851 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
1852 default is 15 minutes.
934b03fc 1853DOC_END
1854
1855
934b03fc 1856NAME: request_timeout
f1dc9b30 1857TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1858LOC: Config.Timeout.request
049d61bb 1859DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1860DOC_START
1861 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
1862 connection establishment.
1863DOC_END
1864
1865
1866NAME: persistent_request_timeout
1867TYPE: time_t
1868LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
1869DEFAULT: 1 minute
934b03fc 1870DOC_START
049d61bb 1871 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
1872 connection after the previous request completes.
934b03fc 1873DOC_END
1874
1875
1876NAME: client_lifetime
bc0eb004 1877COMMENT: time-units
f1dc9b30 1878TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1879LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
9e975e4e 1880DEFAULT: 1 day
934b03fc 1881DOC_START
1882 The maximum amount of time that a client (browser) is allowed to
1883 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
efd900cb 1884 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
934b03fc 1885 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
1886 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
1887 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
1888 day, 1440 minutes.
1889
1890 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
1891 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
1892 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
1893 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
1894 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
049d61bb 1895 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
934b03fc 1896DOC_END
1897
ea285003 1898NAME: half_closed_clients
1899TYPE: onoff
1900LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
1901DEFAULT: on
1902DOC_START
1903 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
1904 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
1905 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
1906 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
1907 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
1908 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
1909 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
1910 "no more data to read."
ea285003 1911DOC_END
1912
603a02fd 1913NAME: pconn_timeout
1914TYPE: time_t
1915LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
1916DEFAULT: 120 seconds
1917DOC_START
1918 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
1919 proxies.
603a02fd 1920DOC_END
1921
05832ae1 1922NAME: ident_timeout
1923TYPE: time_t
3898f57f 1924IFDEF: USE_IDENT
05832ae1 1925LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
1926DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1927DOC_START
c463eb5f 1928 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
1929
1930 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
1931 users, then you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
1932 many ident requests going at once.
05832ae1 1933DOC_END
1934
934b03fc 1935
1936NAME: shutdown_lifetime
bc0eb004 1937COMMENT: time-units
f1dc9b30 1938TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 1939LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
9e975e4e 1940DEFAULT: 30 seconds
934b03fc 1941DOC_START
1942 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
1943 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
1944 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
1945 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
1946 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
934b03fc 1947DOC_END
1948
0f74202c 1949COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 1950 ACCESS CONTROLS
1951 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 1952COMMENT_END
934b03fc 1953
1954NAME: acl
1955TYPE: acl
f1dc9b30 1956LOC: Config.aclList
1957DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 1958DOC_START
1959 Defining an Access List
1960
1961 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
1962 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
1963
1964 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
1965
fc659d9d 1966 acltype is one of the types described below
934b03fc 1967
edd80fbb 1968 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
1969 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
1970
934b03fc 1971 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
1972 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
1973 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
ae2c08a2 1974 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
d0d41f07 1975
efd900cb 1976 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
1977 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
edd80fbb 1978 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
1979 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
d0d41f07 1980 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
1981 # based URL is used. The name "none" is used if the reverse lookup
1982 # fails.
1983
934b03fc 1984 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
1985 day-abbrevs:
1986 S - Sunday
1987 M - Monday
1988 T - Tuesday
1989 W - Wednesday
1990 H - Thursday
1991 F - Friday
1992 A - Saturday
1993 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
edd80fbb 1994 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
1995 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
934b03fc 1996 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
ec5bba4d 1997 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
7e3ce7b9 1998 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
934b03fc 1999 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
2000 acl aclname method GET POST ...
fc659d9d 2001 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
edd80fbb 2002 # pattern match on User-Agent header
fc659d9d 2003 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
2004 # pattern match on Referer header
2005 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
c68e9c6b 2006 acl aclname ident username ...
145cf928 2007 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
c68e9c6b 2008 # string match on ident output.
2009 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
96d88dcb 2010 acl aclname src_as number ...
6468fe10 2011 acl aclname dst_as number ...
2012 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
96d88dcb 2013 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
2014 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
6468fe10 2015 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
2016 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
d87ebd78 2017 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
2018 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
6468fe10 2019
c68e9c6b 2020 acl aclname proxy_auth username ...
145cf928 2021 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
c68e9c6b 2022 # list of valid usernames
2023 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
73e67ee0 2024 #
2025 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
2026 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
2027 # in access.log.
c68e9c6b 2028 #
2029 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
2030 # to check username/password combinations (see
2031 # authenticate_program).
2032 #
2033 # WARNING: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy. It
2034 # collides with any authentication done by origin servers. It may
2035 # seem like it works at first, but it doesn't.
934b03fc 2036
dba79ac5 2037 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
08f6b5e0 2038 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
dba79ac5 2039 # Example:
96d88dcb 2040 #
dba79ac5 2041 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
2042
9bc73deb 2043 acl aclname maxconn number
2044 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
2045 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
2046
be5caa55 2047 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
96d88dcb 2048 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
60d096f4 2049 # than <number> different ip address's. The authenticate_ip_ttl
2050 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
be5caa55 2051 # If -s is specified then the limit is strict, denying browsing
2052 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
2053 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" deny requests.
2054 # (the counter is then reset each time the limit is reached and a
2055 # request is denied)
2056 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
2057 # clients may appear to come from multiple address's if they are
2058 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
60d096f4 2059
fb8ee28e 2060 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
ba2b31a8 2061 # regex match agains the mime type of the request generated
2062 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
2063 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2064 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
2065 # to match the returned file type.
c68e9c6b 2066
fb8ee28e 2067 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
c4ab8329 2068 # regex match against the mime type of the reply recieved by
2069 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
2070 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2071 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
2072 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
2073 # http_reply_access.
2074
d9572179 2075 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
2076 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
2077 # external_acl_type directive.
c4ab8329 2078
c68e9c6b 2079Examples:
2080acl myexample dst_as 1241
aa6956a5 2081acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
ba2b31a8 2082acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
c4ab8329 2083acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
c68e9c6b 2084
c68e9c6b 2085NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2086#Recommended minimum configuration:
c68e9c6b 2087acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
934b03fc 2088acl manager proto cache_object
2089acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
4cc6eb12 2090acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
934b03fc 2091acl SSL_ports port 443 563
6b53c392 2092acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
2093acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
2094acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
2095acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
2096acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
2097acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
9bc73deb 2098acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
2099acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
2100acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
2101acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
934b03fc 2102acl CONNECT method CONNECT
c68e9c6b 2103NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 2104DOC_END
2105
2106NAME: http_access
2107TYPE: acl_access
f1dc9b30 2108LOC: Config.accessList.http
2109DEFAULT: none
da7f354f 2110DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
934b03fc 2111DOC_START
2112 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
2113
2114 Access to the HTTP port:
2115 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2116
934b03fc 2117 NOTE on default values:
2118
6b53c392 2119 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
934b03fc 2120 the request.
2121
2122 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
2123 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
2124 deny, then the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
2125 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
2126 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
2127 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
2128
c68e9c6b 2129NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2130#Recommended minimum configuration:
2131#
2132# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
c68e9c6b 2133http_access allow manager localhost
2134http_access deny manager
6b53c392 2135# Deny requests to unknown ports
499558df 2136http_access deny !Safe_ports
6b53c392 2137# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
c68e9c6b 2138http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
2139#
4cc6eb12 2140# We strongly recommend to uncomment the following to protect innocent
2141# web applications running on the proxy server who think that the only
2142# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
2143#http_access deny to_localhost
c68e9c6b 2144#
4cc6eb12 2145# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
2146
b9d7fe3e 2147# Exampe rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
2148# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
2149# be allowed
2150#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
2151#http_access allow our_networks
2152
6b53c392 2153# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
c68e9c6b 2154http_access deny all
2155NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 2156DOC_END
2157
c4ab8329 2158NAME: http_reply_access
2159TYPE: acl_access
2160LOC: Config.accessList.reply
2161DEFAULT: none
2162DEFAULT_IF_NONE: allow all
2163DOC_START
2164 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
2165
2166 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
2167
96d88dcb 2168 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
c4ab8329 2169 all replies
2170
2171 If none of the access lines cause a match, then the opposite of the
2172 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
2173 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
2174
2175NOCOMMENT_START
2176#Recommended minimum configuration:
2177#
2178# Insert your own rules here.
2179#
2180#
2181# and finally allow by default
2182http_reply_access allow all
2183NOCOMMENT_END
2184DOC_END
2185
934b03fc 2186
2187NAME: icp_access
2188TYPE: acl_access
f1dc9b30 2189LOC: Config.accessList.icp
2190DEFAULT: none
da7f354f 2191DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
934b03fc 2192DOC_START
6b53c392 2193 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
2194 access lists
2195
2196 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2197
2198 See http_access for details
934b03fc 2199
c68e9c6b 2200NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2201#Allow ICP queries from eveyone
c68e9c6b 2202icp_access allow all
2203NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 2204DOC_END
2205
2206
2207NAME: miss_access
2208TYPE: acl_access
f1dc9b30 2209LOC: Config.accessList.miss
2210DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 2211DOC_START
2212 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2213 a parent. For example:
2214
2215 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
2216 miss_access allow localclients
2217 miss_access deny !localclients
2218
2219 This means that only your local clients are allowed to fetch
2220 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
2221
2222 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
2223 to fetch MISSES from us.
6b53c392 2224
c68e9c6b 2225NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2226#Default setting:
2227# miss_access allow all
c68e9c6b 2228NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 2229DOC_END
2230
2231
505e35db 2232NAME: cache_peer_access
2233TYPE: peer_access
f1dc9b30 2234DEFAULT: none
2235LOC: none
934b03fc 2236DOC_START
505e35db 2237 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2238 using ACL elements.
934b03fc 2239
505e35db 2240 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 2241
505e35db 2242 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2243 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2b6662ba 2244 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
934b03fc 2245DOC_END
2246
ec603b25 2247NAME: ident_lookup_access
2248TYPE: acl_access
2249IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2250DEFAULT: none
2251DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2252LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
2253DOC_START
2254 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2255 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2256 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2257 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2258 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2259 any requests.
2260
2261 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2262 can follow this example:
96d88dcb 2263
ec603b25 2264 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
2265 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2266 ident_lookup_access deny all
2267
c463eb5f 2268 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
2269 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2270 the correct result.
ec603b25 2271DOC_END
2272
43a5f06a 2273NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
d6827718 2274TYPE: acl_tos
2275DEFAULT: none
2276LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
2277DOC_START
2278 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
2279 connections with, based on the username or source address
2280 making the request.
2281
2282 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2283
2284 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2285 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
2286
2287 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2288 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2289 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
2290 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2291
2292 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
2293 know what you're specifying. For more, see RFC 2474
2294
2295 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a byte, value 0 - 255, or
2296 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2297
2298 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2299 matching line.
2300DOC_END
2301
2302NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2303TYPE: acl_address
2304DEFAULT: none
2305LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2306DOC_START
2307 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2308 based on the username or sourceaddress of the user making
2309 the request.
2310
2311 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
2312
2313 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwareded
2314 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
2315 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
2316 source address 10.1.0.3.
2317
2318 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2319 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2320 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
2321 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
2322 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
2323
2324 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2325 matching line.
2326DOC_END
ec603b25 2327
a560ee93 2328NAME: reply_body_max_size
2329COMMENT: bytes allow|deny acl acl...
2330TYPE: body_size_t
2331DEFAULT: none
2332DEFAULT_IF_NONE: 0 allow all
2333LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2334DOC_START
2335 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It
2336 can be used to prevent users from downloading very large files,
2337 such as MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are recieved,
2338 the reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line with
2339 a result of "allow" is used as the maximum body size for this reply.
2340 This size is then checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
2341 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2342 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2343 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2344 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2345 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2346 and they will receive a partial reply.
2347
2348 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2349 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2350 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2351 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2352
96d88dcb 2353 WARNING: A maximum size larger than the size of squid's error messages
a560ee93 2354 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2355 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2356 the size of your largest error page.
2357
2358 If you set this parameter to zero (the default), there will be
2359 no limit imposed.
2360DOC_END
2361
0f74202c 2362COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 2363 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
2364 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 2365COMMENT_END
934b03fc 2366
2367NAME: cache_mgr
2368TYPE: string
2369DEFAULT: webmaster
2370LOC: Config.adminEmail
2371DOC_START
2372 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
2373 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
934b03fc 2374DOC_END
2375
2376
2377NAME: cache_effective_user
0153d498 2378TYPE: string
a95856a0 2379DEFAULT: nobody
0153d498 2380LOC: Config.effectiveUser
2381DOC_NONE
2382
2383NAME: cache_effective_group
2384TYPE: string
8749fa47 2385DEFAULT: none
0153d498 2386LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
934b03fc 2387DOC_START
5a3f6538 2388
934b03fc 2389 If the cache is run as root, it will change its effective/real
5a3f6538 2390 UID/GID to the UID/GID specified below. The default is to
8749fa47 2391 change to UID to nobody and GID to the default group of nobody.
5a3f6538 2392
2393 If Squid is not started as root, the default is to keep the
8749fa47 2394 current UID/GID, and only the GID can be changed to any of
2395 the groups the user starting Squid is member of. Note that if
2396 Squid is not started as root then you cannot set http_port to
2397 a value lower than 1024.
934b03fc 2398DOC_END
2399
2400
2401NAME: visible_hostname
2402TYPE: string
2403LOC: Config.visibleHostname
f1dc9b30 2404DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 2405DOC_START
2406 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
2407 then define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cf5cc17e 2408 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
2409 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
2410 names with this setting.
934b03fc 2411DOC_END
2412
98829f69 2413
2414NAME: unique_hostname
2415TYPE: string
2416LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
2417DEFAULT: none
2418DOC_START
2419 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
2420 'visible_hostname' then you must give each machine a different
2421 'unique_hostname' so that forwarding loops can be detected.
98829f69 2422DOC_END
2423
1f38f50a 2424
2425NAME: hostname_aliases
2426TYPE: wordlist
2427LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
2428DEFAULT: none
2429DOC_START
2430 A list of other DNS names that your cache has.
2431DOC_END
2432
0f74202c 2433COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 2434 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
2435 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
934b03fc 2436
3a278cb8 2437 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
2438 announcement service. This service is provided to help
2439 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
2440 create cache hierarchies.
934b03fc 2441
3a278cb8 2442 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
efd900cb 2443 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
d2d631ce 2444 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3a278cb8 2445
2446 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
2447 following information from this configuration file:
934b03fc 2448
3a278cb8 2449 http_port
2450 icp_port
2451 cache_mgr
2452
2453 All current information is processed regularly and made
2b6662ba 2454 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
0f74202c 2455COMMENT_END
934b03fc 2456
f1dc9b30 2457NAME: announce_period
2458TYPE: time_t
2459LOC: Config.Announce.period
d2d631ce 2460DEFAULT: 0
934b03fc 2461DOC_START
d2d631ce 2462 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
2463 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
2464 messages.
934b03fc 2465
cd748f27 2466 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
2467 below.
2468
6b53c392 2469NOCOMMENT_START
2470#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
2471#announce_period 1 day
2472NOCOMMENT_END
934b03fc 2473DOC_END
2474
2475
f1dc9b30 2476NAME: announce_host
2477TYPE: string
61735fcf 2478DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
f1dc9b30 2479LOC: Config.Announce.host
2480DOC_NONE
2481
cf5cc17e 2482NAME: announce_file
2483TYPE: string
61735fcf 2484DEFAULT: none
cf5cc17e 2485LOC: Config.Announce.file
2486DOC_NONE
2487
f1dc9b30 2488NAME: announce_port
2489TYPE: ushort
2490DEFAULT: 3131
2491LOC: Config.Announce.port
934b03fc 2492DOC_START
d2d631ce 2493 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
2494 number where the registration message will be sent.
934b03fc 2495
d2d631ce 2496 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
2497 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
2498 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
2499 message.
934b03fc 2500DOC_END
2501
0f74202c 2502COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 2503 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
2504 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 2505COMMENT_END
934b03fc 2506
f1dc9b30 2507NAME: httpd_accel_host
2508TYPE: string
2509LOC: Config.Accel.host
2510DEFAULT: none
2511DOC_NONE
2512
2513NAME: httpd_accel_port
2514TYPE: ushort
2515LOC: Config.Accel.port
5b68a4d3 2516DEFAULT: 80
934b03fc 2517DOC_START
cf5cc17e 2518 If you want to run Squid as an httpd accelerator, define the
934b03fc 2519 host name and port number where the real HTTP server is.
2520
2c10d62d 2521 If you want IP based virtual host support then specify the
2522 hostname as "virtual". This will make Squid use the IP address
2523 where it accepted the request as hostname in the URL.
934b03fc 2524
42b51993 2525 If you want virtual port support then specify the port as "0".
2526
839491ad 2527 NOTE: enabling httpd_accel_host disables proxy-caching and
2528 ICP. If you want these features enabled also, then set
2529 the 'httpd_accel_with_proxy' option.
934b03fc 2530DOC_END
2531
13c7936a 2532NAME: httpd_accel_single_host
2533COMMENT: on|off
2534TYPE: onoff
2535LOC: Config.Accel.single_host
b0a9b5f2 2536DEFAULT: off
13c7936a 2537DOC_START
54bab452 2538 If you are running Squid as an accelerator and have a single backend
13c7936a 2539 server then set this to on. This causes Squid to forward the request
2540 to this server irregardles of what any redirectors or Host headers
2541 says.
2542
b0a9b5f2 2543 Leave this at off if you have multiple backend servers, and use a
2544 redirector (or host table or private DNS) to map the requests to the
13c7936a 2545 appropriate backend servers. Note that the mapping needs to be a
2546 1-1 mapping between requested and backend (from redirector) domain
2547 names or caching will fail, as cacing is performed using the
2548 URL returned from the redirector.
2549
2550 See also redirect_rewrites_host_header.
2551DOC_END
934b03fc 2552
2553NAME: httpd_accel_with_proxy
2554COMMENT: on|off
2555TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 2556DEFAULT: off
17a0a4ee 2557LOC: Config.onoff.accel_with_proxy
934b03fc 2558DOC_START
cf5cc17e 2559 If you want to use Squid as both a local httpd accelerator
6b53c392 2560 and as a proxy, change this to 'on'. Note however that your
2561 proxy users may have trouble to reach the accelerated domains
2562 unless their browsers are configured not to use this proxy for
2563 those domains (for example via the no_proxy browser configuration
2564 setting)
934b03fc 2565DOC_END
2566
934b03fc 2567NAME: httpd_accel_uses_host_header
2568COMMENT: on|off
2569TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 2570DEFAULT: off
934b03fc 2571LOC: opt_accel_uses_host
2572DOC_START
2573 HTTP/1.1 requests include a Host: header which is basically the
2c10d62d 2574 hostname from the URL. The Host: header is used for domain based
2575 virutal hosts. If your accelerator needs to provide domain based
2576 virtual hosts on the same IP address then you will need to turn this
2577 on.
2578
2579 Note that Squid does NOT check the value of the Host header matches
2580 any of your accelerated server, so it may open a big security hole
2581 unless you take care to set up access controls proper. We recommend
2582 that this option remain disabled unless you are sure of what you
2583 are doing.
934b03fc 2584
04f6f348 2585 However, you will need to enable this option if you run Squid
2586 as a transparent proxy. Otherwise, virtual servers which
2587 require the Host: header will not be properly cached.
934b03fc 2588DOC_END
2589
0f74202c 2590COMMENT_START
3a278cb8 2591 MISCELLANEOUS
2592 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0f74202c 2593COMMENT_END
934b03fc 2594
2595NAME: dns_testnames
2596TYPE: wordlist
2597LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
f1dc9b30 2598DEFAULT: none
6b53c392 2599DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
934b03fc 2600DOC_START
2601 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
2602
6b53c392 2603 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
934b03fc 2604DOC_END
2605
2606
2607NAME: logfile_rotate
2608TYPE: int
2609DEFAULT: 10
2610LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
2611DOC_START
5a3f6538 2612 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2613 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
cf5cc17e 2614 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
934b03fc 2615 disable the rotation, but the logfiles are still closed and
cf5cc17e 2616 re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
5a3f6538 2617 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
2618
2619 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2620 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2621 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2622 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2623 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2624 <pid>'.
934b03fc 2625DOC_END
2626
2627
2628NAME: append_domain
f1dc9b30 2629TYPE: string
2630LOC: Config.appendDomain
2631DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 2632DOC_START
cf5cc17e 2633 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
2634 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
934b03fc 2635
cd98395a 2636 Be warned that there today is Internet names with no dots in
2637 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
2638 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
2639
6b53c392 2640Example:
2641 append_domain .yourdomain.com
934b03fc 2642DOC_END
2643
2644
2645NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
89de058c 2646COMMENT: (bytes)
1b635117 2647TYPE: b_size_t
89de058c 2648DEFAULT: 0 bytes
934b03fc 2649LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
2650DOC_START
2651 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
2652 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
2653 the default buffer size.
934b03fc 2654DOC_END
2655
934b03fc 2656NAME: err_html_text
f1dc9b30 2657TYPE: eol
2658LOC: Config.errHtmlText
2659DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 2660DOC_START
2661 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
2662 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
2663 organizations Web page.
2664
ab1e6b8a 2665 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
2666 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
2667 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
2668 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
934b03fc 2669DOC_END
2670
2671
2672NAME: deny_info
2673TYPE: denyinfo
2674LOC: Config.denyInfoList
f1dc9b30 2675DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 2676DOC_START
02922e76 2677 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
76cdc28d 2678 or deny_info http://... acl
02922e76 2679 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
934b03fc 2680
02922e76 2681 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
934b03fc 2682 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. A single ACL will cause
2683 the http_access check to fail. If a 'deny_info' line exists
02922e76 2684 for that ACL then Squid returns a corresponding error page.
cf5cc17e 2685
02922e76 2686 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
2687 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
76cdc28d 2688
2689 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will then
2690 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
2691 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
2692
2693 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
2694 by specifying TCP_RESET.
934b03fc 2695DOC_END
2696
934b03fc 2697NAME: memory_pools
2698COMMENT: on|off
2699TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 2700DEFAULT: on
3f6c0fb2 2701LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
934b03fc 2702DOC_START
2703 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
2704 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
96d88dcb 2705 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
d0d41f07 2706 routines, disable this.
934b03fc 2707DOC_END
2708
7021844c 2709NAME: memory_pools_limit
2710COMMENT: (bytes)
2711TYPE: b_size_t
2712DEFAULT: none
f12c295b 2713LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
7021844c 2714DOC_START
f12c295b 2715 Used only with memory_pools on:
2716 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
7021844c 2717
f12c295b 2718 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
2719 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
2720 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
2721 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
2722 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7021844c 2723 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
f12c295b 2724 configuration will use less memory.
2725
2726 If not set (default) or set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it
2727 can. That is, there will be no limit on the total amount of memory
2728 used for safe-keeping.
7021844c 2729
2730 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
2731 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
2732
f12c295b 2733 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
2734 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
2735 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
2736 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
7021844c 2737DOC_END
2738
934b03fc 2739NAME: forwarded_for
2740COMMENT: on|off
2741TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 2742DEFAULT: on
934b03fc 2743LOC: opt_forwarded_for
2744DOC_START
2745 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
2746 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
2747 this:
2748
2749 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
2750
2751 If you disable this, it will appear as
2752
2753 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
934b03fc 2754DOC_END
2755
2756NAME: log_icp_queries
2757COMMENT: on|off
2758TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 2759DEFAULT: on
17a0a4ee 2760LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
934b03fc 2761DOC_START
cf5cc17e 2762 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
2763 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
2764 up or to simplify log analysis.
934b03fc 2765DOC_END
2766
88738790 2767NAME: icp_hit_stale
2768COMMENT: on|off
2769TYPE: onoff
2770DEFAULT: off
17a0a4ee 2771LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
88738790 2772DOC_START
2773 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
2774 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
2775 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
2776 have sibling relationships with caches under your control, then
2777 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
0ccdf88e 2778 If set to 'on', then your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
2779 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
88738790 2780DOC_END
2781
934b03fc 2782
2783NAME: minimum_direct_hops
2784TYPE: int
2785DEFAULT: 4
2786LOC: Config.minDirectHops
2787DOC_START
2788 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
2789 which are no more than this many hops away.
934b03fc 2790DOC_END
2791
5f84d830 2792NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
2793TYPE: int
2794DEFAULT: 400
2795LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
2796DOC_START
2797 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
2798 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
2799DOC_END
934b03fc 2800
2801NAME: cachemgr_passwd
2802TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
86101e40 2803DEFAULT: none
f1dc9b30 2804LOC: Config.passwd_list
934b03fc 2805DOC_START
2806 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
2807
2808 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
2809
064a674d 2810 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
2811 5min
2812 60min
2813 asndb
2814 authenticator
2815 cbdata
2816 client_list
2817 comm_incoming
2818 config *
2819 counters
2820 delay
2821 digest_stats
cf5cc17e 2822 dns
064a674d 2823 events
cf5cc17e 2824 filedescriptors
064a674d 2825 fqdncache
2826 histograms
2827 http_headers
2828 info
2829 io
2830 ipcache
2831 mem
2832 menu
cf5cc17e 2833 netdb
064a674d 2834 non_peers
2835 objects
2836 pconn
2837 peer_select
2838 redirector
2839 refresh
934b03fc 2840 server_list
064a674d 2841 shutdown *
2842 store_digest
2843 storedir
2844 utilization
2845 via_headers
2846 vm_objects
934b03fc 2847
2848 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
2849 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
2850
2851 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
2852 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
2853 password to "none".
2854
2855 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
2856
6b53c392 2857Example:
2858 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
2859 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
2860 cachemgr_passwd disable all
934b03fc 2861DOC_END
2862
934b03fc 2863NAME: store_avg_object_size
86101e40 2864COMMENT: (kbytes)
2865TYPE: kb_size_t
2bf99296 2866DEFAULT: 13 KB
934b03fc 2867LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
2868DOC_START
2869 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
2870 cache can hold. See doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt. The default is
2bf99296 2871 13 KB.
934b03fc 2872DOC_END
2873
2874NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
2875TYPE: int
baf144ad 2876DEFAULT: 20
934b03fc 2877LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
2878DOC_START
2879 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
2880 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
7e3ce7b9 2881 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 50.
934b03fc 2882DOC_END
2883
934b03fc 2884NAME: client_db
2885COMMENT: on|off
2886TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 2887DEFAULT: on
17a0a4ee 2888LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
934b03fc 2889DOC_START
2890 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics, then
2891 turn off client_db here.
934b03fc 2892DOC_END
2893
2894
2895NAME: netdb_low
2896TYPE: int
2897DEFAULT: 900
2898LOC: Config.Netdb.low
2899DOC_NONE
2900
2901NAME: netdb_high
2902TYPE: int
2903DEFAULT: 1000
2904LOC: Config.Netdb.high
2905DOC_START
2906 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
2907 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
2908 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
2909 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
934b03fc 2910DOC_END
2911
2912
2913NAME: netdb_ping_period
f1dc9b30 2914TYPE: time_t
934b03fc 2915LOC: Config.Netdb.period
9e975e4e 2916DEFAULT: 5 minutes
934b03fc 2917DOC_START
2918 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
2919 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
2920 network. The default is five minutes.
934b03fc 2921DOC_END
2922
2923
2924NAME: query_icmp
2925COMMENT: on|off
2926TYPE: onoff
f1dc9b30 2927DEFAULT: off
17a0a4ee 2928LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
934b03fc 2929DOC_START
2930 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
2931 replies, enable this option.
2932
cf5cc17e 2933 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
2934 '--enable-icmp' then that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
2935 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option then the
2936 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
2937 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
934b03fc 2938 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
2939 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
2940 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
934b03fc 2941DOC_END
2942
88500f96 2943NAME: test_reachability
194dd3b8 2944COMMENT: on|off
2945TYPE: onoff
2946DEFAULT: off
2947LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
2948DOC_START
2949 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
2950 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
2951 database, or has a zero RTT.
194dd3b8 2952DOC_END
2953
78f1250a 2954NAME: buffered_logs
2955COMMENT: on|off
2956TYPE: onoff
2957DEFAULT: off
17a0a4ee 2958LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
78f1250a 2959DOC_START
3d44788b 2960 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2961 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2962 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2963 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2964 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
78f1250a 2965DOC_END
2966
465dc415 2967NAME: reload_into_ims
9f60cfdf 2968IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
465dc415 2969COMMENT: on|off
2970TYPE: onoff
2971DEFAULT: off
2972LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
2973DOC_START
2974 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
2975 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
2976 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
2977 feature could make you liable for problems which it
2978 causes.
cbe3a719 2979
2980 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
465dc415 2981DOC_END
2982
934b03fc 2983NAME: always_direct
2984TYPE: acl_access
2985LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
f1dc9b30 2986DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 2987DOC_START
2a78fa67 2988 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2989
2990 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
3445a83a 2991 ALWAYS be forwarded directly to origin servers. For example,
2992 to always directly forward requests for local servers use
2a78fa67 2993 something like:
2994
2995 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
2996 always_direct allow local-servers
2997
2998 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
2999
3000 acl FTP proto FTP
3001 always_direct allow FTP
3002
3003 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
3004 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
3005 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
3006 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
3007 some other rule. Example:
3008
3009 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5d8ea528 3010 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
2a78fa67 3011 always_direct deny local-external
3012 always_direct allow local-servers
3445a83a 3013
3014 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
3015 and local_ip.
934b03fc 3016DOC_END
3017
3018NAME: never_direct
3019TYPE: acl_access
3020LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
f1dc9b30 3021DEFAULT: none
934b03fc 3022DOC_START
d0d41f07 3023 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2a78fa67 3024
3025 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
3026 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
934b03fc 3027
2a78fa67 3028 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
3029 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
3445a83a 3030 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
3031 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
2a78fa67 3032
5d8ea528 3033 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
2a78fa67 3034 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
d0d41f07 3035 never_direct deny local-servers
3036 never_direct allow all
3445a83a 3037
3038 or if squid is inside a firewall and there is local intranet
3039 servers inside the firewall then use something like:
3040
5d8ea528 3041 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
3445a83a 3042 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3043 always_direct deny local-external
3044 always_direct allow local-intranet
3045 never_direct allow all
3046
3047 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
3048 and firewall_ip.
2a78fa67 3049DOC_END
934b03fc 3050
6bccf575 3051NAME: header_access
3052TYPE: http_header_access[]
3053LOC: Config.header_access
97474590 3054DEFAULT: none
3055DOC_START
6bccf575 3056 Usage: header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
96d88dcb 3057
6bccf575 3058 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3059 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3060 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3061 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3062 mangling.
3063
3064 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3065 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3066 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
96d88dcb 3067
6bccf575 3068 For example, to achieve the same behaviour as the old
5bcad01d 3069 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
96d88dcb 3070
6bccf575 3071 header_access From deny all
3072 header_access Referer deny all
3073 header_access Server deny all
3074 header_access User-Agent deny all
3075 header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3076 header_access Link deny all
97474590 3077
5bcad01d 3078 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3079 you should use:
96d88dcb 3080
6bccf575 3081 header_access Allow allow all
3082 header_access Authorization allow all
3083 header_access Cache-Control allow all
3084 header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3085 header_access Content-Length allow all
3086 header_access Content-Type allow all
3087 header_access Date allow all
3088 header_access Expires allow all
3089 header_access Host allow all
3090 header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3091 header_access Last-Modified allow all
3092 header_access Location allow all
3093 header_access Pragma allow all
3094 header_access Accept allow all
3095 header_access Charset allow all
3096 header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3097 header_access Accept-Language allow all
3098 header_access Content-Language allow all
3099 header_access Mime-Version allow all
3100 header_access Retry-After allow all
3101 header_access Title allow all
3102 header_access Connection allow all
3103 header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3104 header_access All deny all
96d88dcb 3105
5bcad01d 3106 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3107 performed).
97474590 3108DOC_END
3109
6bccf575 3110NAME: header_replace
3111TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3112LOC: Config.header_access
88738790 3113DEFAULT: none
3114DOC_START
6bccf575 3115 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3116 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
96d88dcb 3117
6bccf575 3118 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3119 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3120 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3121 option.
96d88dcb 3122
6bccf575 3123 By default, headers are removed if denied.
88738790 3124DOC_END
3125
365cb147 3126NAME: icon_directory
f0b19334 3127TYPE: string
365cb147 3128LOC: Config.icons.directory
3129DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3130DOC_START
cf5cc17e 3131 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
3132 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
365cb147 3133DOC_END
3134
cf5cc17e 3135NAME: error_directory
365cb147 3136TYPE: string
cf5cc17e 3137LOC: Config.errorDirectory
3138DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
365cb147 3139DOC_START
cf5cc17e 3140 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
efd900cb 3141 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
3142 language or company copy the template English files to another
cf5cc17e 3143 directory and point this tag at them.
365cb147 3144DOC_END
88738790 3145
22c653cd 3146NAME: minimum_retry_timeout
3147COMMENT: (seconds)
3148TYPE: time_t
3149LOC: Config.retry.timeout
3150DEFAULT: 5 seconds
3151DOC_START
3152 This specifies the minimum connect timeout, for when the
3153 connect timeout is reduced to compensate for the availability
3154 of multiple IP addresses.
3155
cf5cc17e 3156 When a connection to a host is initiated, and that host has
3157 several IP addresses, the default connection timeout is reduced
3158 by dividing it by the number of addresses. So, a site with 15
3159 addresses would then have a timeout of 8 seconds for each
3160 address attempted. To avoid having the timeout reduced to the
3161 point where even a working host would not have a chance to
3162 respond, this setting is provided. The default, and the
3163 minimum value, is five seconds, and the maximum value is sixty
3164 seconds, or half of connect_timeout, whichever is greater and
3165 less than connect_timeout.
22c653cd 3166DOC_END
3167
3168NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
3169TYPE: int
3170LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
3171DEFAULT: 3
3172DOC_START
3173 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
3174 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
3175 each address is tried once).
3176
3177 The default value is three tries, the (not recommended)
3178 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
3179 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
22c653cd 3180DOC_END
6d1c0d53 3181
a97cfa48 3182NAME: snmp_port
3183TYPE: ushort
3184LOC: Config.Port.snmp
3185DEFAULT: 3401
1df370e3 3186IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
a97cfa48 3187DOC_START
cf5cc17e 3188 Squid can now serve statistics and status information via SNMP.
3189 By default it listens to port 3401 on the machine. If you don't
9bc73deb 3190 wish to use SNMP, set this to "0".
a97cfa48 3191DOC_END
3192
dba79ac5 3193NAME: snmp_access
3194TYPE: acl_access
3195LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
a97cfa48 3196DEFAULT: none
6502682e 3197DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1df370e3 3198IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
a97cfa48 3199DOC_START
dba79ac5 3200 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
08f6b5e0 3201
3202 All access to the agent is denied by default.
dba79ac5 3203 usage:
4feb7b2e 3204
dba79ac5 3205 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
08f6b5e0 3206
3207Example:
6b53c392 3208 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3209 snmp_access deny all
bdf18524 3210DOC_END
3211
15dcc168 3212NAME: snmp_incoming_address
3213TYPE: address
1ecaa0a0 3214LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
15dcc168 3215DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3216IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3217DOC_NONE
3218NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
3219TYPE: address
3220LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
3221DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3222IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3223DOC_START
3224 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
3225
3226 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
3227 messages from SNMP agents.
3228 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
3229 agents.
3230
6b53c392 3231 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
3232 available network interfaces.
15dcc168 3233
6b53c392 3234 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
3235 then it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
3236 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
3237 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
15dcc168 3238
6b53c392 3239 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
3240 the same value since they both use port 3401.
15dcc168 3241DOC_END
bdf18524 3242
53ad48e6 3243NAME: as_whois_server
3244TYPE: string
3245LOC: Config.as_whois_server
3246DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
3247DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
3248DOC_START
cf5cc17e 3249 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
3250 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
53ad48e6 3251DOC_END
95e36d02 3252
320e9f36 3253NAME: wccp_router
3254TYPE: address
3255LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3256DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
eb824054 3257IFDEF: USE_WCCP
320e9f36 3258DOC_START
efd900cb 3259 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3260 Squid. Setting the 'wccp_router' to 0.0.0.0 (the default)
3261 disables WCCP.
320e9f36 3262DOC_END
3263
d20b1cd0 3264NAME: wccp_version
3265TYPE: int
3266LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3267DEFAULT: 4
3268IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3269DOC_START
3270 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 only supports WCCP
3271 version 3. If you're using that version of IOS, change
3272 this value to 3.
3273DOC_END
3274
320e9f36 3275NAME: wccp_incoming_address
3276TYPE: address
eb824054 3277LOC: Config.Wccp.incoming
320e9f36 3278DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
eb824054 3279IFDEF: USE_WCCP
320e9f36 3280DOC_NONE
3281NAME: wccp_outgoing_address
3282TYPE: address
eb824054 3283LOC: Config.Wccp.outgoing
320e9f36 3284DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
eb824054 3285IFDEF: USE_WCCP
320e9f36 3286DOC_START
efd900cb 3287 wccp_incoming_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3288 messages to be received on only one
3289 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3290 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3291 have, or if you know you have only one
3292 interface.
320e9f36 3293
efd900cb 3294 wccp_outgoing_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3295 messages to be sent out on only one
3296 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3297 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3298 have, or if you know you have only one
3299 interface.
320e9f36 3300
efd900cb 3301 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
320e9f36 3302
3303 NOTE, wccp_incoming_address and wccp_outgoing_address can not have
3304 the same value since they both use port 2048.
320e9f36 3305DOC_END
3306
3307
95e36d02 3308COMMENT_START
3309 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS (all require DELAY_POOLS compilation option)
3310 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
95e36d02 3311COMMENT_END
3312
59715b38 3313NAME: delay_pools
3314TYPE: delay_pool_count
3315DEFAULT: 0
95e36d02 3316IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
59715b38 3317LOC: Config.Delay
95e36d02 3318DOC_START
59715b38 3319 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3320 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3321 have a total of 2 delay pools.
95e36d02 3322DOC_END
3323
59715b38 3324NAME: delay_class
3325TYPE: delay_pool_class
95e36d02 3326DEFAULT: none
3327IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
59715b38 3328LOC: Config.Delay
95e36d02 3329DOC_START
59715b38 3330 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3331 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3332 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3333 and here would be:
3334
6b53c392 3335Example:
3336 delay_pools 2 # 2 delay pools
3337 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3338 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
59715b38 3339
3340 The delay pool classes are:
3341
3342 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3343 bucket.
3344
3345 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3346 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3347 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3348
3349 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3350 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3351 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3352 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3353 32 of the IP address.
3354
3355 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3356 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3357 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3358 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
95e36d02 3359DOC_END
3360
59715b38 3361NAME: delay_access
3362TYPE: delay_pool_access
95e36d02 3363DEFAULT: none
3364IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
59715b38 3365LOC: Config.Delay
95e36d02 3366DOC_START
59715b38 3367 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
efd900cb 3368 The first matched delay pool is always used, i.e., if a request falls
59715b38 3369 into delay pool number one, no more delay are checked, otherwise the
3370 rest are checked in order of their delay pool number until they have
3371 all been checked. For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3372 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
95e36d02 3373
6b53c392 3374Example:
3375 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3376 delay_access 1 deny all
3377 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3378 delay_access 2 deny all
95e36d02 3379DOC_END
3380
59715b38 3381NAME: delay_parameters
3382TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3383DEFAULT: none
95e36d02 3384IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
59715b38 3385LOC: Config.Delay
95e36d02 3386DOC_START
59715b38 3387 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3388 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3389 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
95e36d02 3390
59715b38 3391delay_parameters pool aggregate
95e36d02 3392
59715b38 3393 For a class 2 delay pool:
95e36d02 3394
59715b38 3395delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
95e36d02 3396
59715b38 3397 For a class 3 delay pool:
95e36d02 3398
59715b38 3399delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
95e36d02 3400
59715b38 3401 The variables here are:
95e36d02 3402
59715b38 3403 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3404 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3405 delay_class lines.
95e36d02 3406
59715b38 3407 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3408 (class 1, 2, 3).
95e36d02 3409
59715b38 3410 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3411 buckets (class 2, 3).
3412
3413 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3414 (class 3).
3415
3416 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3417 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3418 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3419 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3420
3421 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3422 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3423 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3424
3425delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3426
3427 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3428
3429 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3430 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3431 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3432 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3433 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3434 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3435 large downloads more significantly:
3436
3437delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000
3438
3439 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
95e36d02 3440DOC_END
3441
59715b38 3442NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3443COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3444TYPE: ushort
3445DEFAULT: 50
95e36d02 3446IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
59715b38 3447LOC: Config.Delay.initial
95e36d02 3448DOC_START
59715b38 3449 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3450 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3451 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3452 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3453 "seen" by squid).
95e36d02 3454DOC_END
6be2389e 3455
9cd6c6fb 3456NAME: incoming_icp_average
6be2389e 3457TYPE: int
3458DEFAULT: 6
3459LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
3460DOC_NONE
3461
9cd6c6fb 3462NAME: incoming_http_average
6be2389e 3463TYPE: int
3464DEFAULT: 4
3465LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
3466DOC_NONE
3467
afc28c12 3468NAME: incoming_dns_average
3469TYPE: int
3470DEFAULT: 4
3471LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
3472DOC_NONE
3473
9cd6c6fb 3474NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6be2389e 3475TYPE: int
3476DEFAULT: 8
3477LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
3478DOC_NONE
3479
afc28c12 3480NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
3481TYPE: int
3482DEFAULT: 8
3483LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
3484DOC_NONE
3485
9cd6c6fb 3486NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6be2389e 3487TYPE: int
3488DEFAULT: 8
3489LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
3490DOC_START
b6a2f15e 3491 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6be2389e 3492 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
3493 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
3494DOC_END
2b4283e4 3495
c5f627c2 3496NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3497TYPE: int
3498LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3499DEFAULT: 0
6b53c392 3500DOC_START
3501 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3502 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3503 descriptors are open.
3504
3505 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
3506DOC_END
c5f627c2 3507
b540e168 3508NAME: offline_mode
3509TYPE: onoff
3510LOC: Config.onoff.offline
3511DEFAULT: off
3512DOC_START
3513 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
3514 objects.
3515DOC_END
3516
d548ee64 3517NAME: uri_whitespace
3518TYPE: uri_whitespace
3519LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7e3ce7b9 3520DEFAULT: strip
d548ee64 3521DOC_START
3522 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
3523 URI. Options:
3524
7e3ce7b9 3525 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
3526 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2616.
d548ee64 3527 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
3528 Request" message.
3529 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
3530 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
3531 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
3532 are in use.
3533 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
3534 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
3535 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
3536 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
3537 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
3538 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
3539 violation.
d548ee64 3540DOC_END
3541
376bb137 3542NAME: broken_posts
3543TYPE: acl_access
3544DEFAULT: none
3545LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
c68e9c6b 3546DOC_START
376bb137 3547 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
54bab452 3548 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
376bb137 3549
3550 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
54bab452 3551 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
376bb137 3552
3553 Quote from RFC 2068 section 4.1 on this matter:
3554
3555 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3556 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3557 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3558 a request with an extra CRLF.
3559
6b53c392 3560Example:
3561 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3562 broken_posts allow buggy_server
c68e9c6b 3563DOC_END
9b094667 3564
e66d7923 3565NAME: mcast_miss_addr
3566IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
3567TYPE: address
3568LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
3569DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
b6a2f15e 3570DOC_START
3571 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
3572 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
3573
3574 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
3575 certain you understand what you are doing.
3576DOC_END
e66d7923 3577
7e3ce7b9 3578NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
3579IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_TTL
3580TYPE: ushort
3581LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
3582DEFAULT: 16
3583DOC_START
3584 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
3585 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
3586 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
3587DOC_END
3588
e66d7923 3589NAME: mcast_miss_port
3590IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
3591TYPE: ushort
3592LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
3593DEFAULT: 3135
b6a2f15e 3594DOC_START
efd900cb 3595 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
b6a2f15e 3596 'mcast_miss_addr'.
3597DOC_END
e66d7923 3598
3599NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
3600IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
3601TYPE: string
3602LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
3603DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
b6a2f15e 3604DOC_START
3605 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
3606 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
3607DOC_END
e66d7923 3608
168dfda9 3609NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
3610TYPE: onoff
3611LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
3612DEFAULT: on
3613DOC_START
3614 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
3615 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cachable request type) direct
3616 to origin servers.
3617
3618 If you set this to off, then Squid will prefer to send these
3619 requests to parents.
3620
3621 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
3622 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
3623 ratio.
3624
3625 If you are inside an firewall then see never_direct instead of
3626 this directive.
168dfda9 3627DOC_END
3628
9b094667 3629NAME: prefer_direct
3630TYPE: onoff
3631LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
168dfda9 3632DEFAULT: off
9b094667 3633DOC_START
168dfda9 3634 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you by some
3635 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
3636 going direct fails then set this to off.
3637
3638 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
3639 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
3640 fails.
9b094667 3641DOC_END
4d62b0af 3642
bcbc11b0 3643NAME: strip_query_terms
3644TYPE: onoff
3645LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
3646DEFAULT: on
3647DOC_START
3648 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3649 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
bcbc11b0 3650DOC_END
3651
b6a2f15e 3652NAME: coredump_dir
3653TYPE: string
3654LOC: Config.coredump_dir
3655DEFAULT: none
5ff76111 3656DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
b6a2f15e 3657DOC_START
5ff76111 3658 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3659 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
b6a2f15e 3660 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3661 and coredump files will be left there.
5ff76111 3662
3663NOCOMMENT_START
3664# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3665coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3666NOCOMMENT_END
b6a2f15e 3667DOC_END
3668
07476a7f 3669NAME: redirector_bypass
3670TYPE: onoff
3671LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3672DEFAULT: off
3673DOC_START
3674 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3675 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3676 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
29de1a20 3677 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
07476a7f 3678 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3679 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3680 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3681 then users may have access to pages that they should not
3682 be allowed to request.
3683DOC_END
3684
9bc73deb 3685NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
3686TYPE: onoff
3687LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
3688DEFAULT: on
3689DOC_START
3690 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
3691 from the same IP addresses that they are sent to. If they
3692 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
3693 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
3694 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
9bc73deb 3695DOC_END
3696
7e3ce7b9 3697NAME: digest_generation
3698IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3699TYPE: onoff
3700LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
3701DEFAULT: on
3702DOC_START
3703 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
3704 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
3705 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
7e3ce7b9 3706DOC_END
3707
3708NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
3709IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3710TYPE: int
3711LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
3712DEFAULT: 5
3713DOC_START
3714 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
3715 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
3716 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
7e3ce7b9 3717DOC_END
3718
3719NAME: digest_rebuild_period
3720IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
efd900cb 3721COMMENT: (seconds)
3722TYPE: time_t
7e3ce7b9 3723LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
efd900cb 3724DEFAULT: 1 hour
7e3ce7b9 3725DOC_START
3726 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
7e3ce7b9 3727DOC_END
3728
3729NAME: digest_rewrite_period
efd900cb 3730COMMENT: (seconds)
7e3ce7b9 3731IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
efd900cb 3732TYPE: time_t
7e3ce7b9 3733LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
efd900cb 3734DEFAULT: 1 hour
7e3ce7b9 3735DOC_START
3736 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
6b53c392 3737 disk.
7e3ce7b9 3738DOC_END
3739
3740NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
efd900cb 3741COMMENT: (bytes)
3742TYPE: b_size_t
7e3ce7b9 3743IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7e3ce7b9 3744LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
efd900cb 3745DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
7e3ce7b9 3746DOC_START
3747 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
efd900cb 3748 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
3749 default swap page.
7e3ce7b9 3750DOC_END
3751
3752NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
efd900cb 3753COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
7e3ce7b9 3754IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3755TYPE: int
3756LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
3757DEFAULT: 10
3758DOC_START
efd900cb 3759 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
3760 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
7e3ce7b9 3761DOC_END
3762
efd900cb 3763NAME: chroot
3764TYPE: string
3765LOC: Config.chroot_dir
3766DEFAULT: none
3767DOC_START
3768 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
3769 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
3770 initializing. This means, for example, that if you use a HTTP
3771 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an
3772 error.
3773DOC_END
efd900cb 3774
3775NAME: client_persistent_connections
3776TYPE: onoff
3777LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
3778DEFAULT: on
3779DOC_NONE
3780
3781NAME: server_persistent_connections
3782TYPE: onoff
3783LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
3784DEFAULT: on
3785DOC_START
3786 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
3787 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
3788 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
3789 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
efd900cb 3790DOC_END
9d24d603 3791
3d15e2d7 3792NAME: pipeline_prefetch
3793TYPE: onoff
3794LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
3795DEFAULT: on
3796DOC_START
3797 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
3798 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid tries to fetch
3799 up to two requests in parallell from a pipeline.
3800DOC_END
3801
56fe752e 3802NAME: extension_methods
3803TYPE: wordlist
3804LOC: Config.ext_methods
3805DEFAULT: none
3806DOC_START
3807 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
3808 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
3809DOC_END
3810
b8a46de0 3811NAME: high_response_time_warning
3812TYPE: int
3813COMMENT: (msec)
3814LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
3815DEFAULT: 0
3816DOC_START
3817 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
3818 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
3819 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
3820DOC_END
3821
3822NAME: high_page_fault_warning
3823TYPE: int
3824LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
3825DEFAULT: 0
3826DOC_START
3827 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
3828 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
3829 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
3830 per second.
3831DOC_END
3832
3833NAME: high_memory_warning
3834TYPE: b_size_t
3835LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
3836DEFAULT: 0
3837DOC_START
3838 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
3839 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
3840 the administrators attention.
3841DOC_END
3842
65a53c8e 3843NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3844TYPE: string
3845LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3846DEFAULT: least-load
3847DOC_START
3848 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
3849DOC_END
3850
225644d7 3851NAME: forward_log
3852IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
3853TYPE: string
3854DEFAULT: none
3855LOC: Config.Log.forward
3856DOC_START
3857 Logs the server-side requests.
3858
3859 This is currently work in progress.
3860DOC_END
3861
7613d09c 3862NAME: ie_refresh
3863COMMENT: on|off
3864TYPE: onoff
3865LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3866DEFAULT: off
3867DOC_START
3868 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3869 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3870 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3871 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3872 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3873 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3874 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3875 fresh content when they want it. Note that because Squid
3876 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3877 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3878 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3879 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3880 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3881 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3882 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3883 force fresh content.
3884DOC_END
3885
f66a9ef4 3886NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3887COMMENT: on|off
3888TYPE: onoff
3889LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3890DEFAULT: off
3891DOC_START
3892 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3893 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3894 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3895 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3896 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
3897 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
3898 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
3899DOC_END
3900
d1ec12c7 3901NAME: sleep_after_fork
3902COMMENT: (microseconds)
3903TYPE: int
3904LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
3905DEFAULT: 0
3906DOC_START
96d88dcb 3907 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
3908 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
3909 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
3910 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
3911 memory. Note, however, that if you have a lot of child
3912 processes, then these sleep delays will add up and your
3913 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
3914 until all the child processes have been started.
d1ec12c7 3915DOC_END
1fbbdcb0 3916
2b4283e4 3917EOF