[squid-users] Compiling squid with 'url_rewrite' support?

[Amos Jeffries]

On 16/07/2015 2:42 a.m., Michael Monette wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This might be a stupid question..
> 
> I started looking at squidGuard. Looks pretty straight forward and
> fairly easy to implement it but for some reason I could not get it to
> actually work, the blacklists were still being bypassed. I was using
> Squid-3.5.4 from source because I need the ssl::server_name ACL. I
> tried to install regular squid-3.1.10 from the YUM repo and using the
> same config file (disabling the at_step and ssl::servername stuff)
> and everything worked right away without needing to touch anything
> else in squid.conf. My blacklists were active.
> 
> Do I need to compile squid in a certain way to that url_rewrite
> works? Or is that something that works and is enabled by default?

Nope, its an always-built component of Squid.

SquidGuard is an old and no longer maintained project. It may need
patching manually to work with current Squid versions
(<http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3978> has the patches).

ufdbGuard is much more up to date and performant if you actually have to
use a tool. Squid can be configured to do itself almost everything the
helpers do.

Amos