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><>|| = Squid is ugly = Squid error pages are ugly, here's how you can change it. == Configuration == This assumes you already have a squid proxy installation which is up and running. Squid is serving static pages on errors, denies or on other problematic situations. All those pages can be found in `/usr/share/squid/errors/`. The pages are stored in folders with language names. Those folders are actually the squid translated pages. We can change the language squid serves pages by editing `/etc/squid/squid.conf` configuration file. Find the `error_directory` directive and change it's value to the path where your language files are stored. {{{ error_directory /usr/share/squid/errors/Romanian }}} Ok, but this doesn't make Squid error pages prettier! To get this issue fixed you can edit every page inside the error pages directory to suit your needs, or, you can use [[sed]]! == Custom pages == Make a copy of your language folder first. {{{ mkdir /etc/squid/pages/ cp -r /usr/share/squid/errors/Romanian /etc/squid/pages/ }}} Now cause it is [[HTML]] the pages inside that folder are written in, we can use [[CSS]] to prettify those. Here's a simple [[sed]] usage to quickly search and replace the default squid error pages CSS tag with some custom CSS: {{{ sed -i 's/