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Please note that this article is considered legacy documentation because Ubuntu 12.04 has reached its end-of-life support.
Squid is a caching and forwarding web proxy. It is most often used in conjunction with a traditional LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and can be used to filter traffic on HTTP, FTP, and HTTPS, and increase the speed (thus lower the response time) for a web server via caching.
Pre-Flight Check
- These instructions are intended specifically for installing Squid on a single Ubuntu 12.04 LTS node.
- I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server, and I’ll be logged in as root.
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