That worked, thanks a lot, used your advice on a single rule instead of two as well. Thanks, Dean Weimer Network Administrator Orscheln Management Co -----Original Message----- From: Guillaume Smet [mailto:guillaume.smet@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:19 PM To: Dean Weimer Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: url_regex help On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Dean Weimer <dweimer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here's what I have, anyone have an idea where I went wrong > I am Running Squid 3.0 Stable 9 on FreeBSD 6.2 > Acl NOCACHEPDF url_regex -i ^http://hostname.\*pdf$ > Acl NOCACHEXLS url_regex -i ^http://hostname.\*xls$ > No_cache deny NOCACHEPDF NOCACHEXLS > > I have used cat combined with awk and grep to check the pattern matching on the access logs with: > Cat /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log | awk '{print $7}' | grep -e ^http://hostname.\*pdf$ > Cat /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log | awk '{print $7}' | grep -e ^http://hostname.\*xls$ The \ character before the * is only necessary to prevent your shell from expanding the wildcard because you didn't use quotes to escape your regexp. In your Squid conf file, you just need: acl NOCACHEPDF url_regex -i ^http://hostname.*pdf$ acl NOCACHEXLS url_regex -i ^http://hostname.*xls$ But if I were you, I'd use: acl NOCACHEXLS url_regex -i ^http://hostname/.*\.xls$ acl NOCACHEPDF url_regex -i ^http://hostname/.*\.pdf$ which is more precise and more correct IMHO. Or shorter: acl NOCACHE url_regex -i ^http://hostname/.*\.(pdf|xls)$ -- Guillaume
