[squid-users] Caching configuration for Squid on Windows

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 3:58 AM Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 22/05/21 2:06 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I installed this on my Windows 10 but gave up when I could not make it
> > to cache anything.
> >
>
> Squid by default uses a memory based cache these days. Unless your
> traffic is non-cacheable you should be seeing some things stored there
> without any configuration.
>
>
> > What is the correct format of the above config on Windows?
> >
> > cache_dir aufs c:\Squid\cachedir 3000 16 256
> >
>
> As far as I know that directory path should be written as:
>
>   /c/Squid/cachedir
>
>
> The '/cygdir' prefix from examples tutorials is part of CygWin
> environment configuration.
>


So I tried that and...


C:\Squid\var\cache\squid> C:\Squid\bin\squid.exe -z
2021/05/26 11:29:43| FATAL: Bungled /etc/squid/squid.conf line 64:
cache_dir aufs /C/Squid/var/cache/squid
2021/05/26 11:29:43| Squid Cache (Version 4.14): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.108 seconds = 0.046 user + 0.062 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 703488 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 2852



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Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
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