Administrator’s Guide

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
  • Traffic Server Deployment Options
  • Traffic Server Components
  • Traffic Analysis Options
  • Traffic Server Security Options
  • Tuning Traffic Server
• Installing Traffic Server
  • Supported Platforms
  • Traffic Server Versioning
  • Binary Distributions
  • Building From Source
  • Start Traffic Server
  • Stop Traffic Server
• Proxy Cache Configuration
  • Session Protocol
  • HTTP Proxy Caching
  • Reverse Proxy and HTTP Redirects
  • Explicit Proxy Caching
  • Transparent Proxying
  • Forward Proxy
  • Hierarchical Caching
  • Proxy Protocol
• Interacting with Traffic Server
  • Traffic Control
  • Stats Over HTTP
  • Cache Inspector
• Security
  • Controlling Access
  • SSL Termination
  • Rotating TLS Session Ticket Keys
  • OCSP Stapling
  • Split DNS
• Cache Storage
  • The Traffic Server Cache
  • The RAM Cache
  • Changing the Size of the RAM Cache
  • Changing Cache Capacity
  • Partitioning the Cache
  • Configuring the Cache Object Size Limit
  • Clearing the Cache
  • Removing an Object From the Cache
  • Pushing an Object into the Cache
  • Inspecting the Cache
• Plugins
  • Overview
  • Stable plugins
  • Experimental plugins
• Logging
  • Understanding Traffic Server Logs
  • Log Destinations
  • Formatting Log Files
  • Logging Cache Results
  • Log Rotation and Retention
  • Log Filters
  • Configuration Examples
• Monitoring
  • Traffic Manager Alarms
  • Statistics
  • Monitoring
  • Error Messages
  • traffic.out
  • diags.log
  • error.log
• Configuring Traffic Server
  • Configure Traffic Server
  • Configure Traffic Server Using Configuration Files
• Layer 4 Routing
  • Transparency
  • SNI Routing
• Performance Tuning
  • Before You Start
  • Building Traffic Server
  • Hardware Tuning
  • Operating System Tuning
  • Traffic Server Tuning
  • Plugin Tuning
  • Common Scenarios and Pitfalls
• Configuration Files

Audience

This section of the Apache Traffic Server™ Manual is aimed at those individuals looking to install and configure Traffic Server for use as a caching proxy server. The section assumes basic knowledge of the command line and system administration tasks. Detailed steps are provided on how to build and configure the software, so even if you have never used a compiler or looked at a Makefile before, you will find everything you need in the following chapters to get you up and running with your own instance of Traffic Server. Or so is our hope.

Should you encounter problems, or find any of the instructions unclear or lacking, please seek help through one of the avenues listed in Other Resources.