> Can your Squid box resolve your "http_port" line? Whatever you have as the > actual "your.main.website" needs to be resolveable. No, your.main.website can not be resolved. I added your.main.websit to /etc/hosts file. Now , I can ping your.main.website What I did was I configured apache to run on the samebox on 127.0.0.1 pls see below I have added this to http.conf file. Listen 127.0.0.1:80 I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 and your.main.websit on port 80. pls see below [root@mail squid]# telnet 127.0.0.1 80 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. [root@mail squid]# telnet your.main.websit 80 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to your.main.websit (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. Then, I chaned squid.conf as below http_port 192.1.54.101:80 accel defaultsite=your.main.websit cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 80 0 no-query originserver cache_peer_access 127.0.0.1 allow our_sites acl our_sites dstdomain your.main.websit again, same error. Pls see below. [root@mail squid]# /etc/init.d/squid restart Stopping squid: [FAILED] Starting squid: [FAILED] [root@mail squid]# tail -f /var/log/messages May 5 11:37:20 mail squid: Bungled squid.conf line 76: http_port 192.1.54.101:80 accel defaultsite=your.main.websit May 5 11:46:27 mail last message repeated 4 times Hope to hear from you. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya