I created the squid.conf file for a server and my squid server was running ok. When I switched to a different computer and tried to authenticate everything stopped working and all I get is this: While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/ The following error was encountered: Cache Access Denied. Sorry, you are not currently allowed to request: http://www.google.com/ from this cache until you have authenticated yourself. Please keep in mind that I'm building an anonymous proxy service so that's why the "Paranoid anonymize" headers. Here's my squid config: http_port 8888 visible_hostname weezie auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_passwd auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED # No local caching maximum_object_size 0 KB minimum_object_size 0 KB # No local log cache_access_log /dev/null cache_store_log /dev/null acl ip1 myip x.37.196.188 acl ip2 myip x.37.196.189 acl ip3 myip x.37.196.190 acl ip4 myip x.37.196.191 acl ip5 myip x.213.223.188 acl ip6 myip x.213.223.189 acl ip7 myip x.213.223.190 acl ip8 myip x.213.223.191 tcp_outgoing_address x.37.196.188 ip1 tcp_outgoing_address x.37.196.189 ip2 tcp_outgoing_address x.37.196.190 ip3 tcp_outgoing_address x.37.196.191 ip4 tcp_outgoing_address x.213.223.188 ip5 tcp_outgoing_address x.213.223.189 ip6 tcp_outgoing_address x.213.223.190 ip7 tcp_outgoing_address x.213.223.191 ip8 acl user1 proxy_auth ciokan acl user2 proxy_auth ciokan acl user3 proxy_auth ciokan acl user4 proxy_auth ciokan acl user5 proxy_auth ciokan acl user6 proxy_auth ciokan acl user7 proxy_auth ciokan acl user8 proxy_auth ciokan acl all src all acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 acl SSL_ports port 443 # https acl SSL_ports port 563 # snews acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl Safe_ports port 631 # cups acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync acl Safe_ports port 901 # SWAT acl purge method PURGE acl CONNECT method CONNECT refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access allow purge localhost http_access deny purge http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access deny !ncsa_users http_access allow ncsa_users http_access allow ip1 http_access allow ip2 http_access allow ip3 http_access allow ip4 http_access allow ip5 http_access allow ip6 http_access allow ip7 http_access allow ip8 http_access deny all icp_access deny all ident_lookup_access deny all # no forwarded quite useless for an anonymizer forwarded_for off # no client stat client_db off acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache # # Paranoid anonymize header_access Allow allow all header_access Authorization allow all header_access Cache-Control allow all header_access Content-Encoding allow all header_access Content-Length allow all header_access Content-Type allow all header_access Date allow all header_access Expires allow all header_access Host allow all header_access If-Modified-Since allow all header_access Last-Modified allow all header_access Location allow all header_access Pragma allow all header_access Accept allow all #header_access Charset allow all header_access Accept-Encoding allow all header_access Accept-Language allow all header_access Content-Language allow all header_access Mime-Version allow all header_access Retry-After allow all header_access Title allow all header_access Connection allow all header_access Proxy-Connection allow all header_access All deny all strip_query_terms on cache_dir null /tmp hosts_file /etc/hosts coredump_dir /var/spool/squid Please let me know if you spot anything wrong. I appreciate your attention. Thanks.