1. Install Squid Proxy. In this tutorial, I will use a server with Ubuntu 18.04. But, Squid Proxy can be easily installed on many Linux distributions. So, in Ubuntu, the installation process is really simple.:~$ sudo apt install squid . 1.- Install Squid Proxy. Next, start, enable and check the service status. Hi, Sorry if this has been answered before but I'm really struggling to figure out how to use squid and reverse proxy so forward external requests to multiple internal web servers. To start of, I?m a need to pfsense so please be patient with me :) Also I? A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a client and a destination server. The client sends requests to the proxy server which then evaluates the requests and takes necessary actions. In this tutorial, we will be setting up a web proxy server using Squid, which is a robust, customizable and stable proxy server. Personally, I had The next thing you need to do is to specify the proxy of each host in your network to look for your proxy server (PFsense Server). Now that pretty much sums up the tutorial on how to setup squid as a transparent proxy server, this is a powerful tool to add up in your PFsense setup to increase the level of security and performance of your network . This HOWTO describes how to protect your home / small enterprise network users from objectionable internet contents with help of HTTP proxy. Our goal is to set up a free Linux based server running Squid and deploy web filtering application on it saving bandwidth, speeding up web access and blocking Next, the Squid proxy servers default port is 3128. You can change or modify this setting to suit your needs should you wish to modify the port for a specific reason or necessity. To change the default Squid port, we will need to edit the Squid configuration file and change the "http_port" value (on line 1599) to a new port number. Install Squid to Configure Proxy Server. In this tutorial we can check steps to install squid