> 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
