How to configure squid for retrieving (and caching) directly my static resources?

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Published on 2010-02-20T14:49:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 5:03 UTC
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I have an Apache/Tomcat/Spring tc Server running on CentOS EC2 VM.

I would like to install squid on the same machine as a proxy for retrieving (directly i.e. without forwarding the request to Apache/Tomcat) and caching static content ONLY identified by URIs : /images, /css or /js.

Other URIs should be forwarded to the normal Web Server and not cached.

Since I am a newbie, I didn't find from squid documentation how to configure squid for this desired behavior (and if it is even possible).

Could you please help me and tell me how should I configure squid for this purpose?

Thank you.

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