Squid is a high-performance proxy server that can also be used as a HTTP accelerator for the webserver. (WMF has switched to using Varnish for HTTP-layer caching in preference to Squid but the term remains.)

See:

  • Manual:Squid caching/Simple config
  • Manual:Performance tuning
  • Manual:Varnish caching

and associated configuration variables:

  • $wgUseSquid
  • $wgSquidServers
  • $wgSquidServersNoPurge

and hook:

  • Manual:Hooks/TitleSquidURLs
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