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Install Squid Proxy on Rocky Linux VPS

Category: VPS Setup

Set up Squid Proxy—a caching proxy server—on a Rocky Linux VPS—install with
dnf install squid -y
configure /etc/squid/squid conf:
http_port 3128\ncache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256
Start with
systemctl start squid
open port:
firewall-cmd --add-port=3128/tcp
On DigitalOcean test with
curl --proxy http://ip:3128 http://example.com
—expect cached response Ensures uptime—speeds phpMyAdmin access in VPS hosting environments

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