Squid Configuration Translation

This is a list of Squid 2.7 configuration directives, with their equivalent (when available) Traffic Server directives.

Note that there isn't a 1:1 relationship between the directives; rather, this list should be used to find the appropriate part of TS configuration to use.

Contents

1. OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
2. ACCESS CONTROLS
3. OPTIONS FOR X-Forwarded-For
4. SSL OPTIONS
5. NETWORK OPTIONS
6. OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
7. MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
8. DISK CACHE OPTIONS
9. LOGFILE OPTIONS
10. OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
11. OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
12. OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
13. OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
14. HTTP OPTIONS
15. TIMEOUTS
16. ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
17. OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
18. HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
19. DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
20. WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
21. PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
22. CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
23. SNMP OPTIONS
24. ICP OPTIONS
25. MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
26. INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
27. ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
28. OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
29. ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
30. DNS OPTIONS
31. MISCELLANEOUS

OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION

• auth_param - records.config (proxy.config.proxy.authenticate.basic.realm, proxy.config.ldap.*, proxy.config.radius.*, proxy.config.ntlm.*), filter.config
• authenticate_cache_garbage_interval - n/a
• authenticate_ttl - records.config (proxy.config.*.auth.ttl_value)
• authenticate_ip_ttl - n/a
• authenticate_ip_shortcircuit_ttl - n/a

ACCESS CONTROLS

• external_acl_type - n/a
• acl - n/a
• http_access - ip_allow.config, filter.config
• http_access2 - n/a
• http_reply_access - n/a
• icp_access - ???
• htcp_access - n/a
• htcp_clr_access - n/a
• miss_access - n/a
• ident_lookup_access - n/a
• reply_body_max_size - n/a
• authenticate_ip_shortcircuit_access - ip_allow.config, filter.config

OPTIONS FOR X-Forwarded-For

• follow_x_forwarded_for - n/a
• acl_uses_indirect_client - n/a
• delay_pool_uses_indirect_client - n/a
• log_uses_indirect_client - n/a

SSL OPTIONS

• ssl_unclean_shutdown - n/a
• ssl_engine - records.config (proxy.config.ssl.accelerator.type, proxy.config.ssl.*.lib.path)
• sslproxy_client_certificate - records.config (proxy.config.ssl.client.cert.path, proxy.config.ssl.client.cert.filename)
• sslproxy_client_key - records.config (proxy.config.ssl.client.private_key.path, proxy.config.ssl.client.private_key.filename)
• sslproxy_version - n/a
• sslproxy_options - n/a
• sslproxy_cipher - n/a
• sslproxy_cafile - records.config (proxy.config.ssl.client.CA.cert.filename)
• sslproxy_capath - records.config (proxy.config.ssl.client.CA.cert.path)
• sslproxy_flags - n/a
• sslpassword_program - n/a

NETWORK OPTIONS

• http_port - records.config (proxy.config.http.server_port, proxy.config.http_server_other_ports, proxy.config.http.server_port_attr, proxy.config.reverse_proxy.enabled, proxy.config.arm.enabled)
• https_port - records.config (proxy.config.ssl.server_port, proxy.config.ssl.server.*)
• tcp_outgoing_tos - n/a
• tcp_outgoing_address - n/a
• zph_mode - n/a
• zph_local - n/a
• zph_sibling - n/a
• zph_parent - n/a
• zph_option - n/a

OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM

• cache_peer - parent.config, icp.config, remap.config ssl_multicert.config, records.config (proxy.config.http.parent_proxy.*)
• cache_peer_domain - parent.config, remap.config
• cache_peer_access - parent.config, remap.config
• neighbor_type_domain - n/a
• dead_peer_timeout - n/a
• hierarchy_stoplist - parent.config

MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS

• cache_mem - records.config (proxy.config.cache.ram_cache.size)
• maximum_object_size_in_memory - n/a
• memory_replacement_policy - n/a

DISK CACHE OPTIONS

• cache_replacement_policy - n/a
• cache_dir - storage.config
• store_dir_select_algorithm - n/a
• max_open_disk_fds - n/a
• minimum_object_size - n/a
• maximum_object_size - records.config (proxy.config.cache.max_doc_size)
• cache_swap_low - n/a
• cache_swap_high - n/a
• update_headers - n/a

LOGFILE OPTIONS

• logformat - logs_xml.config
• access_log - logs_xml.config
• log_access - logs_xml.config
• logfile_daemon - n/a
• cache_log - records.config (proxy.cnofig.output.logfile, proxy.config.syslog_facility)
• cache_store_log - n/a
• cache_swap_state - n/a
• logfile_rotate - logs_xml.config
• emulate_httpd_log - logs_xml.config
• log_ip_on_direct - logs_xml.config
• mime_table - n/a
• log_mime_hdrs - logs_xml.config
• useragent_log - logs_xml.config
• referer_log - logs_xml.config
• pid_filename - n/a
• debug_options - n/a
• log_fqdn - logs_xml.config
• client_netmask - n/a
• forward_log - logs_xml.config
• strip_query_terms
• buffered_logs - n/a
• netdb_filename - n/a

OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING

• ftp_user - records.config (proxy.config.http.ftp.anonymous_passwd)
• ftp_list_width - n/a
• ftp_passive - records.config (proxy.config.ftp.data_connection_mode)
• ftp_sanitycheck - n/a
• ftp_telnet_protocol - n/a

OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS

• diskd_program - n/a
• unlinkd_program - n/a
• pinger_program - n/a

OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING

• storeurl_rewrite_program - n/a
• storeurl_rewrite_children - n/a
• storeurl_rewrite_concurrency - n/a
• url_rewrite_program - remap.config
• url_rewrite_children - n/a
• url_rewrite_concurrency - n/a
• url_rewrite_host_header - n/a
• url_rewrite_access - n/a
• storeurl_access - n/a
• redirector_bypass - n/a
• location_rewrite_program - remap.config
• location_rewrite_children - n/a
• location_rewrite_concurrency - n/a
• location_rewrite_access - n/a

OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE

• cache - cache.config
• max_stale - records.config (proxy.config.http.cache.max_stale_age)
• refresh_pattern - records.config (proxy.config.http.cache.ignore_client_no_cache, proxy.config.http.cache.ims_on_client_no_cache, proxy.config.http.cache.ignore_server_no_cache, proxy.config.http.cache.ignore_authentication, proxy.config.http.cache.when_to_revalidate, proxy.config.http.cache.required_headers, proxy.config.http.cache.heuriatic_min_lifetime, proxy.config.http.heuristic_max_lifetime, proxy.config.http.cache.heuristic_lm_factor), cache.config
• quick_abort_min - n/a
• quick_abort_max - records.config (proxy.config.http.background_fill_active_timeout)
• quick_abort_pct - records.config (proxy.config.http.background_fill_completed_threshold)
• read_ahead_gap - n/a
• negative_ttl - records.config (proxy.config.http.negative_caching_enabled, proxy.config.http.negative_caching_lifetime)
• positive_dns_ttl - records.config (proxy.config.hostdb.ttl_mode, proxy.config.hostdb.timeout)
• negative_dns_ttl - records.config (proxy.config.hostdb.ttl_mode, proxy.config.hostdb.timeout)
• range_offset_limit - records.config (proxy.config.http.cache.range.lookup)
• minimum_expiry_time - n/a
• store_avg_object_size - n/a
• store_objects_per_bucket - n/a

HTTP OPTIONS

• request_header_max_size - records.config (proxy.config.http.request_header_max_size)
• reply_header_max_size - records.config (proxy.config.http.response_header_max_size)
• request_body_max_size - n/a
• broken_posts - n/a

• Anchor
  toc_upgrade_http0.9 toc_upgrade_http0.9

  upgrade_http0.9 http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/cfgman/upgrade_http0.9.html - n/a
• via - records.config (proxy.config.http.insert_request_via_str, proxy.config.http.insert_response_via_str)
• cache_vary - records.config (proxy.confg.cache.limits.http.max_alts)
• broken_vary_encoding - n/a
• collapsed_forwarding - records.config (proxy.config.connection_collapsing.*)
• refresh_stale_hit - records.config (proxy.config.http.cache.fuzz.time, proxy.config.http.cache.fuzz.probability)
• ie_refresh - records.config (proxy.config.http.cache.when_to_add_no_cache_to_msie_requests)
• vary_ignore_expire - n/a
• extension_methods - n/a
• request_entities - n/a
• header_access - records.config (proxy.config.http.anonymize_*), filter.config
• header_replace - n/a
• relaxed_header_parser
• server_http11 - records.config (proxy.config.http.send_http11_requests)
• ignore_expect_100 - n/a
• external_refresh_check

TIMEOUTS

• forward_timeout - n/a
• connect_timeout - records.config (proxy.config.http.connect_attempts_timeout)
• peer_connect_timeout - records.config (proxy.config.http.parent_proxy.connect_attempts_timeout)
• read_timeout - records.config (proxy.config.http.transaction_no_activity_timeout_out, proxy.config.http.transaction_no_activity_timeout_out)
• request_timeout - n/a
• persistent_request_timeout - records.config (proxy.config.http.keep_alive_no_activity_timeout_out)
• client_lifetime - records.config (proxy.config.http.transaction_active_timeout_in)
• half_closed_clients - n/a
• pconn_timeout - records.config (proxy.config.http.keep_alive_no_activity_timeout_in)
• ident_timeout - n/a
• shutdown_lifetime - n/a

ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS

• cache_mgr - records.config (proxy.config.alarm_email)
• mail_from - n/a
• mail_program - n/a
• cache_effective_user - records.config (proxy.config.admin.user_id)
• cache_effective_group - n/a
• httpd_suppress_version_string - n/a
• visible_hostname - records.config (proxy.config.proxy_name)
• unique_hostname - records.config (proxy.config.proxy_name)
• hostname_aliases - n/a
• umask - n/a

OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE

• announce_period - n/a
• announce_host - n/a
• announce_file - n/a
• announce_port - n/a

HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS

• httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc - n/a

DELAY POOL PARAMETERS

• delay_pools - n/a
• delay_class - n/a
• delay_access - n/a
• delay_parameters - n/a
• delay_initial_bucket_level - n/a

WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

• wccp_router - records.config (proxy.config.wccp.enabled, proxy.config.wccp.router_ip)
• wccp2_router - records.config (proxy.config.wccp.enabled, proxy.config.wccp.router_ip)
• wccp_version - records.config (proxy.config.wccp.version)
• wccp2_rebuild_wait - n/a
• wccp2_forwarding_method - wccp_config.xml
• wccp2_return_method - wccp_config.xml
• wccp2_assignment_method - wccp_config.xml
• wccp2_service - wccp_config.xml
• wccp2_service_info - wccp_config.xml
• wccp2_weight - n/a
• wccp_address - wccp_config.xml
• wccp2_address - wccp_config.xml

PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING

• client_persistent_connections - records.config (proxy.config.http.keep_alive_enabled, proxy.config.http.chunking_enabled)
• server_persistent_connections - records.config (proxy.config.http.keep_alive_enabled, proxy.config.http.chunking_enabled)
• persistent_connection_after_error - n/a
• detect_broken_pconn - n/a

CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS

• digest_generation - n/a
• digest_bits_per_entry - n/a
• digest_rebuild_period - n/a
• digest_rewrite_period - n/a
• digest_swapout_chunk_size - n/a
• digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage - n/a

SNMP OPTIONS

• snmp_port - snmpd.cnf
• snmp_access - snmpd.cnf
• snmp_incoming_address - n/a
• snmp_outgoing_address - n/a

ICP OPTIONS

• icp_port - records.config (proxy.config.icp.icp_interface, proxy.config.icp.icp_port, proxy.config.icp.multicast_enabled)
• htcp_port - n/a
• log_icp_queries - logs_xml.config
• udp_incoming_address - n/a
• udp_outgoing_address - n/a
• icp_hit_stale - n/a
• minimum_direct_hops - n/a
• minimum_direct_rtt - n/a
• netdb_low - n/a
• netdb_high - n/a
• netdb_ping_period - n/a
• query_icmp - n/a
• test_reachability - n/a
• icp_query_timeout - records.config (proxy.config.icp.query_timeout)
• maximum_icp_query_timeout - n/a
• minimum_icp_query_timeout - n/a

MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS

• mcast_groups - n/a
• mcast_miss_addr - n/a
• mcast_miss_ttl - n/a
• mcast_miss_port - n/a
• mcast_miss_encode_key - n/a
• mcast_icp_query_timeout - n/a

INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS

• icon_directory - n/a
• global_internal_static - n/a
• short_icon_urls - n/a

ERROR PAGE OPTIONS

• error_directory - records.config (proxy.config.body_factory.*)
• error_map - records.config (proxy.config.body_factory.*)
• err_html_text - records.config (proxy.config.body_factory.*)
• deny_info - records.config (proxy.config.body_factory.*)

OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING

• nonhierarchical_direct - parents.config
• prefer_direct - n/a
• ignore_ims_on_miss - n/a
• always_direct - parents.config
• never_direct - n/a

ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS

• max_filedescriptors - n/a
• accept_filter - n/a
• tcp_recv_bufsize - records.config (proxy.config.net.sock_recv_buffer_size_in, proxy.config.net.sock_recv_buffer_size_out)
• incoming_rate - n/a

DNS OPTIONS

• check_hostnames - n/a
• allow_underscore - n/a
• cache_dns_program - n/a
• dns_children - n/a
• dns_retransmit_interval - n/a
• dns_timeout - n/a
• dns_defnames - records.config (proxy.config.dns.search_default_domains)
• dns_nameservers - records.config (proxy.config.dns.nameservers)
• hosts_file - n/a
• dns_testnames - n/a
• append_domain - records.config (proxy.config.http.enable_url_expandomatic, proxy.config.dns.url_expansions)
• ignore_unknown_nameservers - n/a
• ipcache_size - records.config (proxy.cnfig.hostdb.size)
• ipcache_low - n/a
• ipcache_high - n/a
• fqdncache_size - n/a

MISCELLANEOUS

• memory_pools - n/a
• memory_pools_limit - n/a
• forwarded_for - records.config (proxy.config.http.insert_squid_x_forwarded_for)
• cachemgr_passwd - records.config (proxy.config.admin.admin_user, proxy.config.admin.admin_password)
• client_db - n/a
• reload_into_ims - records.config (proxy.config.http.cache.ims_on_client_no_cache)
• maximum_single_addr_tries - records.config (proxy.config.http.connect_attempts_max_retries)
• retry_on_error - n/a
• as_whois_server - n/a
• offline_mode - n/a
• uri_whitespace - n/a
• coredump_dir - n/a
• chroot - n/a
• balance_on_multiple_ip
• pipeline_prefetch - n/a
• high_response_time_warning - n/a
• high_page_fault_warning - n/a
• high_memory_warning - n/a
• sleep_after_fork - n/a
• zero_buffers - n/a
• windows_ipaddrchangemonitor - n/a