HowTo Clean and Re-build Squid cache

First, Check you squid.conf file , locate the location of you cache directory, you should have line starting with "cache_dir"

1) Shutdown your squid server

squid -k shutdown

2) Remove the cache directory

• rm -r /squid/cache/*

or

• rm -r /cache/*

or

• rm -rf /cache/*

(forcelly remove )

3) Re-Create the squid cache directory

squid -z

4) Start the squid

service squid start