Compiling Squid 2.6 in Ubuntu is easy, once you know that there are different command line options you must use aside from the defaults (which are specific to BSD-flavored systems). Note that I specifically enabled digest authentication with the –enable-auth=digest switch because our intended application of Squid needed a more secure password transmission method than Basic Authentication. Here’s some general steps:
- Download and upack the Squid source. I used Squid 2.6 for this.
- Open a terminal and change to your Squid source directory.
- Type the follwong and press enter:
sudo ./configure –enable-auth=digest –prefix=/usr –localstatedir=/var –libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/squid –srcdir=. –datadir=${prefix}/share/squid –sysconfdir=/etc/squid
- After a hundred lines or so scroll by, enter the following:
sudo make
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After several, even more ugly lines go by, type the following:
sudo make install - There is no way to set the default location of the log files with Squid using configure, and I couldn’t get the recommended patch to work, so I came up with an easier solution. Issue the command:
ln -s /var/log /var/logs
That’s it. Squid is installed. Now, I didn’t say Squid is actually configured on Ubuntu at this point. Getting it all set up is a story for another day! Depending on several factors, you’ll have to do a lot of chmods to make sure the permissions are right! Someday, I will probably post my PHP-CLI scripts that control user authentication and site blocking! Until then, good luck.