HOWTO get squid and zope to cooperate
From Chaos
Summary
Most of the how-to's I found for getting Squid to run in front of Zope were either poorly documented, or incomplete. I have put this together as a means to and end--hopefully it will be useful to someone other than myself. Of course, this how-to won't cover every aspect of setting up Squid and/or Zope.
Procedure
1. Please download and install/compile Squid 2.x.
2. Put the lines below in your squid.conf (if you want documentation, please look at the pre-existing config and/or man pages).
http_port xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 httpd_accel_host virtual httpd_accel_uses_host_header on httpd_accel_with_proxy on redirect_program /path/to/iredir/iRedirector.py redirect_children 30 redirect_rewrites_host_header off acl self_port port 80 acl self_dst dst xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx http_access deny !self_port never_direct allow self_dst self_port cache_peer localhost parent 8080 0 no-query default acl zope_domain dstdomain mydomain.com acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 cache_peer_access localhost allow zope_domain cache_dir ufs /path/to/your/squid/cache 10000 16 256
3. Obtain iRedirector from here.
4. Decompress it, and put it somewhere that's easy to remember.
5. Change to the directory, and modify iRedirector.py with wherever you want the logfiles to go. Remember to verify the path to Python.
6. Edit redirector_class.py, and modify the logfile to wherever you want it to go. Also change the 'sitemap' definition(s), such that they will match your website. Note: You are not limited to only using this redirector/Squid configuration for Plone sites. If you have Apache sites and wish to run them behind Squid as well, add more definitions. My example is below.
(10, '[\S]*kyle.gadoz.com'): 'localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/$netloc$:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot',
7. Fire up Squid, verify that it started correctly.
8. Test your new Squid + Zope installation!
References
- Simon at longsleep.org for his great Squid 3 How-To.
