Installing Lusca Head for Proxy on Ubuntu Server

This is the second part of the ubuntu server installation in order build a proxy server using squid Lusca Head. Lusca Head is one of squid development to build a proxy server that based on ubuntu server. lusca Head focus in optimizing the Squid by tweaking the caches of the squid proxy. I would suggest you to use ubuntu server to bulid the proxy server for more powerful and stable.

The process of the installation lusca head can be done from the server itself or from the client on your network. the accessing ubuntu server via remotely from the client that using windows using remote application, it allow you copy and paste some command lines easier. It is probably much those of you who do not like much typing with the command line of linux ubuntu. In this case I was using lusca head-r14809, the process lusca head installation on ubuntu server you can completely see in this following video.

Assuming that we have made ubuntu server with the kind partitions as our plan before, the caches is located into 5 partitions as the storage of the proxy caches. Hit and Miss of the proxy caches will work faster and stable. I have used putty as the application to remote server from the client as shown like the picture below!


You have to know the hostname or ip address of your ubuntu server, and we can access the server using ssh port 22 by default. Then click open, the security warning will be show up, click yes, now you have entered to your ubuntu server and installing lusca head ready to begin. You must enter the server as root, there are some ways as I have talked about!


now you have to be root, and ready to do installation and configuration on ubuntu server

this step will update and upgrade some packages for some ubuntu server application, this step need the internet connection to the server.

this step will downloading LUSCA Head r14809 from the source-code, the internet connection is required again.

this step will extract LUSCA_HEAD-r14809.tar.gz in a new directory

Go to lusca head directory root where the extracted files have placed

Compiling lusca head in some configurations


This step is installing lusca head that will be run as the compile configuration.

It will check squid version

Go to etc directory root

Change squid.conf as squid.conf.original as the backup file that may sometime you need

Remove squid.conf now, make a new blank file as squid.conf and open it into terminal editor so that you can fill a new squid.conf configuration.
making storeurl.pl file, open into terminal editor and you can fill by your storeurl.pl configuration

change the own permission of squid.conf and storeurl.pl so that we can change it from any client that connected

Because I have created 5 cache partitions, it is also allow to be changed. If you don't create the caches partitions. You must create a new the directory, it is not recommended in order to get an optimal proxy server. but if you want to do so, this is will be the command line : mkdir /cache && chown proxy:proxy /cache && chmod 777 /cache

Make directory squid and change the own permission 777, if you think it is not secure change to be 644 or anything you want, you must undertand the own permission files number.

Go to squid directory root and make access.log, cache.log, store.log to the current directory and make change the own permission to those files.

Creating swap from the caches

To see all the activity of the squid lusca head that shown in access.log

Somebody said that this can run the squid automatically when you every time reboot, but it doesn't work for me.

This is the alternative steps that works for me in order to make squid lusca head run automatically everytime when ubuntu server first time to start or reboot, it can be squid lusca head run automatically.