[squid-users] Sorry if this has been asked but I can't find an answer anywhere ...

[Mike Yates]

Hi Grant,

So my idea is to install a single squid server and redirect the internal
servers to that url instead of the original one. Squid will then redirect
the post to the correct external server asi it is installed on a server
that has external access  I hope this is possible

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:59 PM Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net>
wrote:

> On 9/24/21 3:26 PM, Mike Yates wrote:
> > Ok so let's say the new server outside the dmz has a different name.
>
> Are you going to re-configure the clients to use the new / different
> name?  Or do you need to re-configure either the intermediate Squid or
> the target; Fred, also running squid, to translate from the old API
> hostname to the new / different hostname?
>
> > I need a squid server configuration that will just forward the api
> > calls to an external address.  So my internal servers will still point
> > to Fred ( which is now a squid server and has access to the outside
> > world) and will then forward the requests to the new server I have in
> > the cloud.
>
> Are there two Squid servers in play now that Fred is running Squid?
>
> Is there a proxy server, Squid or otherwise, between clients and Fred?
> Or is Fred the Squid server that you were referencing in your emails?
>
> > Long story short I just need a pass through squid server.
>
> I suspect you might need to do more than simply pass the requests
> through.  It sounds to me like you need to translates requests for
> https://fred.mydomain.com/api/event to https://dmz.mydomain.com/api/event.
>
> It seems to me like you are going to want to configure Squid on Fred to
> act as a Reverse Proxy (Accelerator).
>
> Link - Reverse Proxy Mode
>   - https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
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