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Re: Question: Manage updates of more then one mach
Posted by Anonymous (216.70.xx.xx) on Thu 19 May 2005 at 18:48
I setup a (noncaching) apache proxy which simply translates the requests to a static mirror destination via a local squid cache.

Advantages of using this method are:

    1) users can use the "caching proxy mirror" like any other full mirror. i.e. no proxy settings required in the clients, and users can browse the mirror tree like they could a full mirror.

    2) you don't have to run a public squid service, only an apache proxy.

    3) clients won't "miss" files in the proxy cache because they weren't using the same mirror to fetch their packages.

    4) it only downloads packages in real time as they are needed, and then they're cached for future requests (based on the size of your squid cache).

    5) multiple "caching proxy mirrors" can be setup with just a few lines of apache config (i.e. other distros, etc)

    (I also put an index.html in the DocumentRoot explaining how to use the mirror. -And don't forget to add a robots.txt to prevent search engines from trying to index your entire cache!) 


  ServerName   debian.proxy.example.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/debian.proxy.example.com
  NoCache *
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^/debian-non-US(.*) http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US$1 [P]
  RewriteRule ^/debian-security(.*) http://security.debian.org/debian-security$1 [P]
  RewriteRule ^/debian(.*) http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian$1 [P]
  ProxyRemote * http://127.0.0.1:3128/

-Thor Kooda
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