3.5. Configuring the Squid service to listen on a specific port or IP address

Procedure

1. Edit the /etc/squid/squid.conf file:

   • To set the port on which the Squid service listens, set the port number in the http_port parameter. For example, to set the port to 8080, set:

     http_port 8080

   • To configure on which IP address the Squid service listens, set the IP address and port number in the http_port parameter. For example, to configure that Squid listens only on the 192.0.2.1 IP address on port 3128, set:

     http_port 192.0.2.1:3128

     Add multiple http_port parameters to the configuration file to configure that Squid listens on multiple ports and IP addresses:

     http_port 192.0.2.1:3128
     http_port 192.0.2.1:8080

2. If you configured that Squid uses a different port as the default (3128):

   1. Open the port in the firewall:

      # firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=port_number/tcp
      # firewall-cmd --reload

   2. If you run SELinux in enforcing mode, assign the port to the squid_port_t port type definition:

      # semanage port -a -t squid_port_t -p tcp port_number

      If the semanage utility is not available on your system, install the policycoreutils-python-utils package.

3. Restart the squid service:

   # systemctl restart squid