Re: [squid-users] Setting up squid as an accel proxy

> I don't understand why I am having so much trouble getting something that
> seems to be so simple working. I have downloaded and installed
> squid-2.6.STABLE16 on my Linux box.

Please use STABLE17, 16 has a major security bug.

> I want to proxy my search engine's
> search page so I don't want squid caching the pages. I just want squid to
> act as a reverse proxy. After reading "Squid The Definitive Guide" and
> lots of posts on the web, I still can't get it to work. It would seem
> that the following basic config file should do the trick. This is based
> on http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy
>
> http_port 80 accel defaultsite=linproxy1.mysite.com
> cache_peer searchengine.mysite.com parent 80 0 no-query originserver
> http_access allow all
>
> I can get squid to run with no errors, but it doesn't reverse proxy the
> search engine's search page. With my browser I can go directly to the
> search engine with no problems, but I get a "Connection has timed out"
> error when I try to go through linproxy1.
>

So http://linproxy1.mysite.com is the publicly accessible website for the
search engine?

Does the machine at searchengine.mysite.com serve pages for
http://linproxy1.mysite.com properly?

Amos
Received on Tue Dec 18 2007 - 18:50:14 MST