Squid service (Diladele.Squid.Service.exe) appears to be a launcher and does not reflect the health status of the squid processes. If for some reason one of the squid process dies (or even if they all die), Squid service keeps a "running" status and does not reflect the proxy state.

It should probably be better if Squid service launcher periodically polled the squid processes responsiveness / status, to be able either to try to restart it/them or at least to reflect their state to the operating system (and monitoring agents if any) by stopping itself (and remaining squid processes if any) in case of problem. At least OS or third party jobs should be able to restart it.

Currently running squid -z from a command line causes a crash, because some of the libraries cannot be found. As a workaround the user has to set the PATH variable in the shell to the bin directory, i.e.
set PATH=C:\Program Files\Squid\bin;%PATH%

We should create a command shortcut with already correct PATH set.

When using FTP over HTTP (ftp://... url in regular browser), Squid is extremely slow to generate each folder display page.

The reason can be found in cache.log : squid tries to get its graphical icons (folder.png, arrow_up.png, ...) from the remote FTP server currently accessed, instead of the local machine. It mixes local path and remote host.

For instance (from cache.log) :
(...)
2015/05/11 21:46:29 kid1| internalStart: unknown request:
GET /squid-internal-static/icons/silk/folder.png HTTP/1.1
Host: ftp.skynet.be
(...)

Each time an icon is needed to compose the page, the problem occurs. The resulting page does not contain the icon, and the generation is extremely slow.

Adding parameter "short_icon_urls off" to squid.conf only partially fixes the problem : icons are back in the displayed page, but generation is still slow and errors in cache.log remain. For some reason squid continues to mix local path and remote host, but manages however to get the icon(s) in the end... ?

now it is Manual

Installed 3.5.5 on Server 2008 R2 x64. At login SquidTray crashes and windows gives the following minimal output. I can live without SquidTray anyway but thought I should report it.

I did have 3.5.1 working previously.
MarkJ

Description:
Stopped working
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: diladele.squid.tray.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 55715464
Problem Signature 04: mscorlib
Problem Signature 05: 2.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 53a11de1
Problem Signature 07: 123f
Problem Signature 08: 5f
Problem Signature 09: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.272.7
Locale ID: 3081

Could be recompiled in order delaypool features could work to limit bandwidth client squid? Or did in previous versions of that works its delaypool features?

The squid package (3.5.9 and 3.5.10 tried) installs itself to F:\squid.
It is automatically chosen and fine, it is the biggest drive.
It seems to work too.
Then I add:
cache_dir aufs /cygdrive/f/Squid/var/squid/cache 93000 16 256
Then I am supposed to run (just as I am used on Linux squid):
squid -z
Result in the log file:
2015/10/13 22:47:06| assertion failed: Kid.cc:45: "cpid > 0"

The variant:
cache_dir aufs /cygdrive/f/Squid/var/squid/cache 13000 16 256
does not work either, squid -z does not create the directories.

F:\Squid\bin>squid -z -f /cygdrive/f/Squid/etc/squid/squid.conf

doesn't do what it should too...

This is the cache.log from trying with 3.5.9:

2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Set Current Directory to /var/cache/squid
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Starting Squid Cache version 3.5.9-20150922-r13918 for x86_64-unknown-cygwin...
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Service Name: squid
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Process ID 7348
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Process Roles: worker
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| With 3200 file descriptors available
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Initializing IP Cache...
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| parseEtcHosts: /etc/hosts: (2) No such file or directory
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| DNS Socket created at [::], FD 5
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, FD 6
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Adding nameserver 8.8.8.8 from squid.conf
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Adding nameserver 208.67.222.222 from squid.conf
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Logfile: opening log daemon:/var/log/squid/access.log
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Logfile Daemon: opening log /var/log/squid/access.log
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| WARNING: no_suid: setuid(0): (22) Invalid argument
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Store logging disabled
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Swap maxSize 13312000 + 262144 KB, estimated 1044164 objects
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Target number of buckets: 52208
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Using 65536 Store buckets
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Max Mem size: 262144 KB
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| Max Swap size: 13312000 KB
2015/10/13 22:48:38 kid1| ERROR: /cygdrive/f/Squid/var/squid/cache: (2) No such file or directory
FATAL: Failed to verify one of the swap directories, Check cache.log
for details. Run 'squid -z' to create swap directories
if needed, or if running Squid for the first time.
Squid Cache (Version 3.5.9-20150922-r13918): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.061 seconds = 0.015 user + 0.046 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 1222656 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 4869

But the directory IS THERE... (copy paste from explorer):
F:\Squid\var\cache\squid
There is also no security problem for file access, since the whole drive is set to be read-writable be "everyone".

OS is Windows 10 x64, other cygwin "portings", i.e. collect program with the dependencies work fine.

I cannot see why cache_dir failes, without that directive it works, but is is completely useless without a disk cache.

Hi
I have sometimes trouble with your build with Squid3 (with cache enabled)
I says it runs out of file descriptors
Because of that, it sometimes doesn't load whole images (partly downloaded)
can you compile it with more file descriptors?
I think you can compile it with the option "--with-maxfd=[and some numbers]" try with number 65536
It can also decrease it for max supported (in cygwin)
I hope the build you next release will be better

I have just installed squid again
I have problem when cache is on
It says it has a "Fatal: Error: Unknown policy lru"

While installing the msi on Windows Server 2012, I get the error message "This product required Microsoft .Net 2.0 to be installed on this machine." Windows server 2012 comes with .net 4.5 pre installed.

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/squid-4.0.20-RELEASENOTES.html
like to help test v4

I have an m3.medium EC2 instance in AWS that I'm trying to automatically (i.e. non-interactively) install Squid on.

This instance has an ephemeral drive automatically mapped to Z.

Via the MSI, Squid insists on installing to Z.

It does this regardless of whether I override ROOTDRIVE, INSTALLDIR, TARGETFOLDER or any of the other variables that you can set via MSIEXEC.

Any ideas?

You MSI haven't upgrade option, and rolled back installation without any reasonable reasons and errors diagnostics.

not Squid Server as now

Though, it would have saved at little time if your installer actually provided a message (preferably at the start of the install) that it requires Win7.

In actual version 3.5.10 no acl arp is available...

please recompile

thx

2015/11/10 17:32:07 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 1/5 'basic_db_auth' processes
2015/11/10 17:32:07 kid1| WARNING: no_suid: setuid(0): (22) Invalid argument
2015/11/10 17:32:07 kid1| ipcCreate: /lib/squid/basic_db_auth: (13) Permission denied
2015/11/10 17:32:07 kid1| WARNING: basicauthenticator #Hlpr1091 exited

1. build MSI, install it
2. remove it
3. build MSI, install it - it was supposed to say this product was installed, instead it nicely installs

Hi,

Our server is running on a 32 bit windows, there is any plan to release a 32bit MSI installer?

"C:\Program Files\Squid\lib\squid\ssl_crtd.exe" -c -s "c:\Program Files\Squid\var\cache\squid_ssldb" this is needed to create the SSL storage for HTTPS filtering

Hi, I only found 64 bit version installer to download, is there any 32 bit one? I'm having an old windows XP.

Having trouble using the cache set up, I have it set as

/cygdrive/c/Squid/var/cache/squid/

I then stop the squid service, go to the squid-bin directory in command prompt (as administrator) and type 'squid -z' then I start the squid service again.

The problem is that it continuosly likes to complain about the fact that it can't find the cachedir '00' and that I should run 'squid -z' even though I have multiple times.

I spent ages trying to get my disk cache going on d drive.

Previously using squidnt and just used format similar to:

cache_dir d:/squid/cache 3000 16 256 (i.e. only change from msdos paths is forward slashes)

After a nice email from Raf, with a link to the relevant page, i came to learn that the correct format is:

cache_dir aufs /cygdrive/d/squid/cache 3000 16 256

Can you please update the comment line in the default squid.conf to reflect this

Something like:

uncomment the line below to enable disk caching - path format is /cygdrive//path to cache folder

cache_dir aufs /cygdrive/d/squid/cache 3000 16 256

It will save Raf having to direct people to a link to a page that i couldnt find myself :)

the "start/stop" service menu items MUST be run as admin

Installation improvement :

As installation script automatically installs and adapts squid.conf file and automatically creates inbound rule in the firewall, if should be convenient to offer proxy port modification at install (with 3128 as default value)

Uninstallation improvement :

Uninstallation deletes squid.conf file without warning, but leaves other files / folders behind. It should be more convenient to offer the possibility to delete squid.conf optionally and to delete all other files currently left untouched.

The current default install path is in c:\program files. This is not ideal as any edit to the squid.conf (or any editable file in the program files path for that matter) raises a permissions error when trying to save (due to program files privileged path protection), forcing you to save it elsewhere, then you have to navigate to that folder and manually move it, overwriting the existing file....its a long way to do things if you need to edit squid.conf (or any other editable file under program files) regularly, mostly during testing. Under a path of c:\squid, theres no such penalty, a save actually saves in one easy click :)

I always install to the root of the drive, but others may not even think about this when installing. Being a ported linux program, its already got enough path quirks, program files doesnt need to be mixed in :)

Cheers and thanks for the squid build!

--enable-ssl is already present and it is good.

"... currently use Windows 64bit 8.1 with 2 NIC, 1 with free internet access and other releasing access to LAN, squid 2.7.STABLE8. To redirect all traffic from port 80 to the squid, I'm using (SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager 3.0.9 Full). My squid is in transparent mode (squid.conf with the line "http_port 3128 transparent") ..."

Need to check if this can be done with 3.5 build.

Thanks go to Dennis for proposing this improvement:

"Default squid.conf does not work in the default VMs provisioned in Rackspace and EC2. ... the reason is that you are configuring the Windows Firewall inbound rule for "scope=Local subnet", and for some reason this does not resolve to the out-of-the-box private networks created by EC2 or Rackspace. ... After replacing this scope with an IP subnet mask like 10.0.0.0/8 everything starts working."

TODO: add a message to the installer to check this setting if Squid has empty access.log and remote proxy connections are timing out,
or add the above range as a scope

The program can't start because cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

The ssl_crtd.exe is needed for correct HTTPS filtering

The squidsrv internal name is ok, just the display name needs to be changed