We are upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6 squid. I saw in the release notes that redirect_program was renamed url_rewrite_program. The only user guides I can find referenced on the web site are for 2.4 and 3.0 and both reference redirect_program (which is odd for 3.0 if it was deprecated in 2.6). Neither references url_rewrite_program. The only documentation I've been able to find is in squid.conf.default, where it gives the new format for input lines.
So I altered my redirect program to handle the new format, and changed my squid.conf tag from redirect_program to url_rewrite_program. Now, whenever I start squid, it exits after logging "The url_rewriter helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!" If I turn on "full" debugging with -X, I'm not seeing any debugging output that tells me that the program is even being started (e.g. the "helperOpenServers: Starting . . ." message in helper.c. This is the same pathname that was working before, it's world executable, and it runs properly from the command line. If I put logger statements at the top of the program, they execute when I run it from the command line, but are never executed via squid. I'm stumped about where the problem is. Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated :-).
Thanks, Martin Robb Here is my squid.conf file: acl All src 0/0 acl SafeMethods method GET HEAD POST acl SafePorts port 80 32323 cache_effective_group admin cache_effective_user squid cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log cache_access_log /var/log/squid/access.log cache_store_log none hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? http_access deny !SafeMethods http_access deny !SafePorts http_access allow All http_port 32323 no_cache deny All url_rewrite_program /usr/sbin/redirector refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 uri_whitespace strip visible_hostname squid.phishing-warning.com
