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4.8 Next Steps

After creating the minimal configuration file, you're more or less ready to run Squid for the first time. To do that, just follow the instructions in the next chapter.

When you've mastered starting and stopping Squid, you can spend some time beefing up the configuration file. You may want to add more sophisticated access controls, which you'll find documented in Chapter 6. Since I didn't say anything about the disk cache yet, you should also spend a fair amount of time in Chapter 7 and Chapter 8.



    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Getting Squid
    		Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing
    		Chapter 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager
    		4.1 The squid.conf Syntax
    		4.2 User IDs
    		4.3 Port Numbers
    		4.4 Log File Pathnames
    		4.5 Access Controls
    		4.6 Visible Hostname
    		4.7 Administrative Contact Information
    		4.8 Next Steps
    		4.9 Exercises
    		Chapter 5. Running Squid
    		Chapter 6. All About Access Controls
    		Chapter 7. Disk Cache Basics
    		Chapter 8. Advanced Disk Cache Topics
    		Chapter 9. Interception Caching
    		Chapter 10. Talking to Other Squids
    		Chapter 11. Redirectors
    		Chapter 12. Authentication Helpers
    		Chapter 13. Log Files
    		Chapter 14. Monitoring Squid
    		Chapter 15. Server Accelerator Mode
    		Chapter 16. Debugging and Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. Config File Reference
    		Appendix B. The Memory Cache
    		Appendix C. Delay Pools
    		Appendix D. Filesystem Performance Benchmarks
    		Appendix E. Squid on Windows
    		Appendix F. Configuring Squid Clients