I’m pleased to announce a new release of iw.recipe.squid. It’s aimed to configure easily an squid proxy server with zope. It’s does the same things of squid generator in cache fu product which generate some config for squid in order to work with zope. I was really inspired of this. But it work’s with buildout with some difference. So what’s else ? How configure squid with zope and apache ? Really simple (I hope)

1- install a squid and an apache server

2- you create an buildout.cfg with some config

[buildout]
parts = squid

[squid]
recipe=iw.recipe.squid
squid_accelerated_hosts =
www.mysite.com localhost:8080/myplone

www.mysite.com is the dns host name of your plone site
myplone is the plone instance name of your plone
localhost is the host name of zope server location
8080 is the port of your zope server

3- you launch buildout

> buildout -c buildout.cfg

this create several directory with some config in their.
in parts/squid/etc you have all config to work with squid
in parts/squid/apache you have all config to work with apache server
in parts/squid/log you have all log file for apache virtual host and squid acces log
in bin you have a squid controler script witch work with parts/squid/etc/squid.conf specific config

5 – finally

You must create a cache for squid

> bin/squidctl createswap

And launch your squid

> bin/squidctl start

After make symbolic link in your apache configuration location ie:

ln -s <absolute path to parts/squid/apache/*> <absolute path to apache virtual host>

And now restart apache and you have an apache/squid/zope architecture working (I hope).

The future

I’m planed to give more flexibility to the recipe.

Imagine you have 10 plone site in your zope server and you want to configure their with iw.recipe.squid . You must declare an dns name for all your plone site. Not always easy !!
So the next step is the capibility to iw.recipe.squid to deal with this use case.

The config MUST change to this way :

www.mysite.com/ localhost:8080/myplone
www.mysite.com/site2 localhost:8080/myplone2
www.mysite.com/site/myplone localhost:8080/myplone3

so when I take a browser and I type http://www.mysite.com/site2 I go to myplone2 instance without declare a specific dns name for it.