FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to the Apache Traffic Server FAQ.
Below is a list of frequently asked questions pertaining to Apache Traffic Server.

1. What Platforms does Traffic Server support
2. 'sudo make install' fails with '/usr/bin/install: invalid group nobody'
3. How do I enable forward proxy mode?
4. How do I access POST data in a Traffic Server plugin
5. How do I enable DNS lookups?
6. How do I enable SSL between Client/ATS/Origin end points?
7. More questions?

What Platforms does Traffic Server support

• Linux is the primary platform supported.
• For other distributions such as FreeBSD, Mac OSX and OpenSolaris see http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/trafficserver/traffic/trunk/README

'sudo make install' fails with '/usr/bin/install: invalid group nobody'

• The default installed user is 'nobody' and the default group is 'nobody'.
• You can specify the installed group via:

# It is very important to do a clean uninstall and distclean before
# re-configuring, re-building, and re-installing after the failed
# first install.
sudo make uninstall
sudo make distclean
configure i.e './configure --with-group=nogroup'

How do I enable forward proxy mode?

• Forward proxy mode is not enabled out of the box for security reasons. When enabling any proxy on the internet, you want to make sure you observe pertinent security restrictions. Having an open proxy available to internet users is a bad thing. If you understand this and are sure you know what you are doing, go ahead and enable:

CONFIG proxy.config.url_remap.remap_required INT 0

inside

/usr/local/etc/trafficserver/records.config

How do I access POST data in a Traffic Server plugin

• You use a transformation plugin. Details are available by visiting the Traffic Server SDK guide

How do I enable DNS lookups?

• Edit records.config and enable round_robin along with specifying your nameservers. For example:
  records.config

      CONFIG proxy.config.dns.round_robin_nameservers INT 1
      CONFIG proxy.config.dns.nameservers STRING 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
  

How do I enable SSL between Client/ATS/Origin end points?

• TODO

  More Frequently Asked Questions?

• There are additional frequently asked questions available in the Traffic Server admin guide