Squid 3 installation with ESI

This show how to enable ESI on Squid.

Steps for Linux/Unix

• Compile and install Squid 3

Squid 3 and ESI

download Squid 3

In the untarred squid folder, ./configure --enable-gnuregex --enable-esi --enable-x-accelerator-vary --with-dl; make

If the compile went well, make install

This installs in /usr/local and "squid" executable is in /usr/local/sbin.

Squid and ESI configuration

Most of configuration parameters are acceptable.

Run squid to initialize disk cache folder "/usr/local/sbin/squid -z"

One can change where the cache folder is. Tune squid by changing size of the cache, size of object and length of time to store object using REGEX.