RE: [squid-users] How to accelerate multiple sites on different ports with one IP

Answering to myself, the solution is to use the name= in cache_peer.
This way you can have more than one cache_peer directives for an IP
address.

Regards,

Tuukka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurikainen, Tuukka [mailto:t.laurikainen@ibermatica.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:27 AM
> To: Squid Users
> Subject: [squid-users] How to accelerate multiple sites on different
ports
> with one IP
>
> Hi all,
>
> How could I accelerate (using Squid 3) multiple sites on a single
server
> running on different ports but a single IP address? For example, if I
> have a server which serves web pages on ports 80 and 81, I'd need two
> cache_peer directives for the same IP address, which doesn't seem to
be
> possible.
>
> Again, I could run separate instances of Squid as a workaround for the
> problem, but then together with the instances I need for rewriting or
> not the host header (see my previous post
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200507/0588.html)
I
> could end up running quite a number of separate instances (there are
> tens of sites behind the proxy with varying configuration). The
problem
> here obviously is that if I run a lot of instances I need various
> separate configurations and caches and the administration of such
system
> gets much more complicated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tuukka
Received on Wed Sep 07 2005 - 09:07:05 MDT