squid proxy

[Damien T Mc Mahon]

hey im trying to set up squid for content filtering on my network. what i want to do is to filter all out going traffic so people are not using proxies to by pass my settings other than my self to have unblocked access. i have open dns setup but you can by pass it by changing the dns and every user is an admin on their own pcs so its not possible to lock them down

iv tried to setup squid but it gives me an error when i run initialize the cache
this the error
Initializing the Squid cache with the command squid3 -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf -z ..
2014/06/06 20:56:22 kid1| Creating missing swap directories
2014/06/06 20:56:22 kid1| No cache_dir stores are configured.

my configuration is
hp ml115 server with 40gb os
webmin and putty for remote access to server
2x 320gb ntfs samba
dhcp server running
os is lubuntu 14.04
webmin + putty for remote
i also have to no access to the server so remote is the only option for me
ps im still kinda a newbie with linux

 

[VitalkaDrug]

2014/06/06 20:56:22 kid1| No cache_dir stores are configured.

Check your /etc/squid3/squid.conf for presence of cache_dir directive.
This directive should specify a directory where your cached content will be stored, and some others options for cache.
Look to this page for details: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache_dir/

 

[Damien T Mc Mahon]

i used sudo nano /etc/squid3/squid.con and the file came up blank on putty

 

[VitalkaDrug]

i used sudo nano /etc/squid3/squid.con and the file came up blank on putty

So it means you are trying to use Squid without the configuration file.
This file can't to be empty. Did you install Squid from a package? Try to reinstall it again in this case.
Otherwise, try to find a template for this file and adapt it for your purpose.

 

[Damien T Mc Mahon]

i dont know. i used sudo apt-get install squid3 or some like that
hears a screen shot

 

[ryanvade]

try:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure squid3

but the file should be at:
/etc/squid3/squid.conf
(make sure to include the last f it is a configuration file... .conf)

 

[Damien T Mc Mahon]

still getting this error
Initializing the Squid cache with the command squid3 -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf -z ..

2014/06/09 17:50:22 kid1| Creating missing swap directories
2014/06/09 17:50:22 kid1| No cache_dir stores are configured.
and this in my config file

 

[ryanvade]

You should search that file for cache_dir.

 

[Damien T Mc Mahon]

how do i do it on webmin as iv no idea

 

[ryanvade]

open that file in nano again
ctrl + w
type cache_dir
enter

this should search the file for cach_dir and if it exists in will bring the cursor to that location.