Install Squidguard On Windows

Currently only 64 bit version is provided. After downloading, double click squid.msi. You have to be an administrator to be able to install Squid on your computer. After that simply, click “Next” button till the installation is finished. When you click “Finish” the installation process is finished.

README.md Squid Windows Installer Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

This project provides MSI Windows Installer for Squid Proxy Server. It enables Squid installation in just a few clicks. Current build is based on the latest Squid 3.5 build for Cygwin Windows 64 bit.

Installation instructions • • Run it and click 'Next' button till the product is installed Please have a look at the tutorial describing. Cloud Guard URL Rewriter Cloud based URL re-writer for Squid for Windows (like commonly used SquidGuard but running in the cloud) is available. The article showing how to enable HTTPS decryption on Squid for Windows can be read.

HTTP and HTTPS Filtering on Windows Using Squid and ICAP In case you need a high-quality HTTP(s) traffic filtering solution on Windows, we recommend Diladele Web Safety running in Docker. Web Safety for Squid Proxy is an ICAP web filtering server that integrates with Squid proxy server and provides rich content and web filtering functionality to sanitize Internet traffic passing into an internal home/enterprise network.

It may be used to block illegal or potentially malicious file downloads, remove annoying advertisements, prevent access to various categories of web sites and block resources with adult/explicit content. To try it out please have a look at the.

For Windows 7 please have a look. Help Squid documentation can be found at In case of any errors in the installer only, please send an email to or post your question in the following google group For squid specific questions please use one of Squid mailing lists.

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On this page • • • • • pfSense - Squid + Squidguard / Traffic Shapping Tutorial In this tutorial I will show you how to set up pfSense 2.0.1 up as an Internet Gateway with Squid Proxy / Squidguard Filtering. I will also show that you have to configure some extra features of pfSense like traffic shapping with squid. This type of configuration would be useful for people who want to set up wireless hot spots or Internet cafe's etc. Requirements This tutorial assumes that you already have a pfsense (version 2.0.1 Minimum) installation running with your network interfaces configured and basic firewall rules configured. Installing Packages to pfsense First of all lets start by installing the extra packages that we are going to requires. Login to your pfsense's Web Administrator, and click on 'Server ->Packages', scroll down the list and find squid and click on '+' button to install, wait for the process to finish then return to the packages section and look for squidguard and install that package as well.

To confirm that the packages have been installed, refresh the web interface and goto 'Services' menu and look for Proxy Server & Proxy Filter, if they both appear in the menu they have been installed correctly, reboot the pfSense Box. NOTE: There have been a couple of instances where I have had to reinstall the squid package right after I have installed the squidguard package, the reason behind this is after I install the squidguard package I am unable to access the Proxy Server Configuration, if this happens go back to the packages menu, click on installed packages tab, then select reinstall on the squid server entry (this has only happened in versions prior to 2.0.1). Configuring Proxy Server Package Once pfsense has been rebooted we want to configure the proxy server settings, (now in this tutorial I am setting up the proxy server as a transparent proxy, if you want to set this part up differently please do you research into squid configuration, the pfsense web site has configuration guides for squid aswell), click on Services ->Proxy Server. On the General Tab, you want to set the following settings, the Proxy Interface Option should be set to 'LAN', and because I am setting this up as a transparent proxy server, tick the 'Transparent Proxy' check box. I would strongly recommend logging to be enabled on your proxy server, as it will come in handy should you need to trouble shoot a issue or just see what people are doing on the Internet etc.

Tick the 'Enabled Logging' Checkbox, set the log store to the default location ' /var/squid/logs ' rotate your logs every 7 days, set your proxy port to port number 3128 ( remember this port number as we will need it when we set the firewall rules up), add a visible hostname and an administrator e-mail address, and set your required language, then click on the Save button. Next click on the 'Cache Mgmt' tab, by default the Hard Disk Cache Size is set to 100mb, I would strongly recommend that you increase this, now it will depend on how big your HDD is that will determine how big you make it, but also keep in mind the more people using this proxy the more space you need to allocate, after that is set leave the rest of the page at default settings and click on Save. Click on the Access Control Tab next, in the allowed subnets field type in your required subnets, (eg: 192.168.255.0/24); keep in mind that if you have more then one subnet accessing this proxy you need to specify each subnet on its own line. Scroll down until you see 'ACL Safeports and ACL SSLPorts' in these fields you will have to type in what ports you want open threw your proxy server, you will need to do some research on this, find out what applications are being used on this network, and specifiy your required porst effectlive. For this howto I am just going to use port 80 and 443 as these are the only too ports that I need to see if you have web pages and for some basic Internet applications to work, if you want other applications to have access to the Internet, do some reading on what ports are required and then update the pfsense box, once set click on Save. Now for the people who wish to throttle the speed of which users get access to the Internet, click on the Trafic Mgmt tab, and set (in kilobytes) what speed you want to restrict users too, click on Save once done.

Configuring SquidGuard Filtering Now thats is the proxy server configured, next we are going to configure SquidGuard, click on the Services menu and select the Proxy Filter button, tick the following 3 check boxes 'Enable', 'Enable GUI Log' and 'Enable Log' then click the Save button, once the page has reloaded click on apply and then confirm that the Squidguard service is running by making sure the Squidguard status is set to STARTED. Stay on the General Settings Tab and scroll down to the blacklist area and tick the box that says Enable Blacklist, and in the blacklist URL type the following and click Save; this is so we can download the blacklist data. Click on the Black list tab and add the save the same URL as before to the Update Address and click on Download. Wait for the process to complete.

Next click on the common ACL tab, and the click on Target Rules List, and select every rule that you want block or allow, then add a message to the Proxy Denied Error Field, I am currently just using the default one they suggest (look at sceenshot for example), leave redirect mode at Int Error page so it will use the message you type in, tick the Log Check box then click on Save. Once that is set up test your proxy and make sure everything is working. I hope this has been a help to you, and keep an eye out for the next tutorial which will be implenting Captive Portal to this setup. Sorry to say this. Why don't you start from the beginning how to configure. Include on your tutorials simple Network diagrams + the following list of configurations.

Otherwise it is a waste of time reading your tutorials. NIC configuration 2.Pfsense WAN and LAN Config 3. The Firewall Rules 4. Proxy server config. SquidGuard Config. You have said in the beginning ' When you mentioned 'set your proxy port to port number 3128 ( remember this port number as we will need it when we set the firewall rules up)', there are no screenshots added as to what rules should you set in the firewall.' It seams you don't know the firewall part configurations.

Because screen shots are easy to put one your tutorials. It is a matter of copy and paste. Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ii Patch 1.1 Pl more. I am Sory for my words. I am really looking to solve this problem.

But never came with a simple, step by step configuration to configure 1. Pfsense to work just for internet access without proxy and filtering. Adding a firewall. Pfsense and Proxy only. Add on the above filtering capability (SquidGuard). Testing your configurations.

Reporting using Light Squid. Free Hallmark Greetings Workshop here. I believe the above steps are a fully functional firewall applications only if they are properly configured and tested.

Pfsense 2.0.1 latest build. Everything working great with Squid, squidguard,and Muli-wan. Trying to rewrite youtbe.com ->Should be easy? Not sure I understand rewrite vs. Redirect as the best solution.

Added target category youtube block youtube in ACL Have rewrite defined click on apply and also restarted squid and squidguard services I will keep trying At one point using redirect only was getting it to redirect but getting a redirect loop in the client browser. Have not found any step by step how to do a simple redirect.

Any advice is appreciated. International school in Chiang Mai Thailand. Hi to Toshky and other people with the same problem.

Your problem seem to be that NAT didnt work with your proxy. Im not an expert but i know this problem from an older router (linksys RV082). I blocked all ports from 1024-65535 on my old router because of filesharing in the past (i share 150mbit line with like 50 people in a studens flat). After i changed to the Pfsense the problem with 2-5 times-hitting-for-full-load was solved. And im sure its the NAT of pfsense. Its portmapping (hope i dont talk wron things now).

I used TcpView on Windows to see what ports are opend when i start a browser (Firefox and Chrome). And there are opend random ports e.g. Tcp-54875 to tcp-54905 which try to reach port 80 on the destination side. Problem could be that these high ports opend randomly. So i think you problem is that the proxy block the mapping to port 80 on the server side (destination).

Hope my post help you, sorry for my lack of english.