How to Install and configure Squid proxy in one click
Proxies and VPNs at the current stage of Internet development have become a necessary tool for almost every user. Improving security, bypassing website blocking and restrictions are some of the main advantages of using proxy services. Someone prefers to buy ready-made solutions, while someone implements their own due to the wide variety of opensource products.

Proxies and VPNs at the current stage of Internet development have become a necessary tool for almost every user. Improving security, bypassing website blocking and restrictions are some of the main advantages of using proxy services. Someone prefers to buy ready-made solutions, while someone implements their own due to the wide variety of opensource products.
One such product is a proxy server called Squid:Squid is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy. It has a wide variety of uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic.
So, for starters, we need a Centos 7-based VPS server and the script below:
proxy_user=username squid_port=22412 yum install -y squid cat > /etc/squid/squid.conf << EOL auth_param basic program /usr/lib64/squid/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid/internet_users auth_param basic realm proxy acl authenticated proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow authenticated http_port $squid_port EOL PASSWORD=$(date +%s | sha256sum | base64 | head -c 32 ; echo -n) touch /etc/squid/internet_users htpasswd -b /etc/squid/internet_users $proxy_user $PASSWORD echo "$proxy_user $PASSWORD" > /root/proxyusers service squid restart cat << EOL http proxy: hostname ip: wget -qO- ipinfo.io/ip port: $squid_port user: $proxy_user password: $PASSWORD EOL
http proxy: myserver.01 ip: x.x.x.x port: 22412 user: username password: DSGSDJ#(@IEWJKF215
This data is from a fully-operational Squid server. Now you can insert them into your browser and access the Internet through your own proxy server.