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Please keep in mind the following only applies to creating a forward-only web proxy caching setup.

My personal goal here was to replace Squid with Traffic Server as a "drop-in" replacement.

The following lists the initial steps involved in getting a generic Traffic Server install up and running.

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I was originally using localhost, but after looking at the HTTP proxy headers that ATS produced, I decided to be more specific.

DNS Round-Robin

Unlike many applications, the default in ApachTraffic Server is to actually round-robin requests among your configured DNS servers.

I didn't like this much, so I disabled it.

Code Block
CONFIG proxy.config.dns.round_robin_nameservers INT 0
Required Remapping

The Apache Traffic Server default install configures URL re-mapping as required.

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var/trafficserver 1G1024M

Web Cache Partitions

The Apache Traffic Server default install doesn't really provide for this. I found over time this can cause all sorts of issues relating to disk lock contention.

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