Configuring squid proxy for windows

Thanks for the article Just wanted to enforce authentication when client connect to proxy, currently it is allowing for invalid password too Like Like. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Menu Menu Exchange Exchange Follow Following. Tech Encyclopedia. By defaul,t the squid using the port and we can change the port number on the configuration file.

In order to access the squid proxy server, needs to open the port in windows firewall for that please follow the below steps,. First, we need to open the port in the firewall please use the above procedures. After that open the squid configuration file and the below line on the top of that.

If you would rather have an expert server admin install it for you, contact SupportPRO team. You should see a squid application appearing in the tray. During installation the MSI installer opened TCP port required to connect to your Squid instance from another machines in your network.

If for some reasons this does not work or works not as expected please follow these steps to open required TCP ports. Create an inbound rule to allow clients connect to the TCP port, the default port where squid is running. The server side configuration is over.

For example in our test lab the IP address is Now your browser is using Squid as a proxy.