It is a very stable piece of software that is used in production all the
time.
You have made a small mistake somewhere in your setup.
One of your errors in a previous e-mail seemed to indicate that you had
programmed a loop into your setup.
You might try uninstalling and starting over with an out of the box
configuration.
I would also start with only one way proxying and get that working.
If you are trying to act as an accelerator for your website, just do that.
That is a trivial setup.
You might also use Webmin to do the configuring since it gives you a gui
and avoids fiddling with configuration file syntax.
In my case, I have the proxy running on the same machine as the apache
webserver
accel defaultsite=www.artifact-software.com vhost
Squid listens on port 80 and tries to satisfy requests from its cache.
If it can not, it passes the request to port 127.0.0.1:81 where Apache
is listening with about 20 vhost sites including 2 proxies for Tomcats
on other backend servers.
Works great so I would not ge at all concerned that you will have
problems after you get your little misconfiguring fixed.
Ron
Adam@Gmail wrote:
Hello All.
I have to say since I started using Squid I get thrown from one
problem to another, followed every suggestion and every tutorial
and I could not get through to my my backend server
This is ridiculous now, I honestly start to believe that this whole
project is a joke or the software isn't at all mature to deal with
what it is supposed to deal with, it's still in a teething stages, and
I believe that we are the guinea pigs of this project where they made
us believe that it works, I do not believe for one second that it
acctually works.
I have read so many questions regarding this particular issue and
"nobody" could come up with a straight answer, are we the only people
with this issue? are we the only people with no luck?
The questions that was asked time and time again was never been
answered, so please don't tell me that this thing works, I'd like to
see it
and don't tell me this whole site runs on a proxy Squid I'd like to
see it aswell.
I was getting this before:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: /
The following error was encountered:
* Invalid URLAnd I followed a suggestion I read on the mailing
list, that maybe I needed to add a vhost after the http_port 3128Now I
am getting this instead:The requested URL could not be
retrieved--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The
following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL:
http://www.mysite.org/Access Denied.Access control configuration
prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact
your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.Your cache
administrator is webmaster.It's not acctually working at all, all it
does is taking you from one problem to another, and so forth it's a
none stop it'a bag of problems and nasty surprises, not to mention
things you need to tweak on my system to make Mr Squid happierI am
sorry guys but this thing doesn't work and I believe it when I see it
and even if I see it working it's still ridiculousto spend as much
time to get one piece of software to work.I have followed the
tutorials to the letter and many suggestions, not to mention the
amount of time I wasted on this thingnever before in my life I have
spent as much time on any programme, this is the first time and I am
not willing to spend the rest of my life trying to figure out
something that doesn't work.Sorry guys but I am very very disapointed
with this, I am just going to completely uninstall the whole thingAnd
go back to the way it was before or perhaps look for an alternative
for something that works.Thanks to all of you who tried to helpBest of
luck to anyone who's still trying to solve Squid's never ending
issues.Thank you.RegardsAdam----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron
Wheeler" <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Adam@Gmail" <adbasque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: Help with accelerated site
Adam@Gmail wrote:
Hello there,
Thanks for the reply Ron and Amos
Maybe my original e-mail wasn't clear a bit confusing I am sorry if
I confused you
I have squid running on Machine A with let's say local ip 192.168.1.4
the backend server is running on machine B and ip address 192.168.1.3
Now, instead of getting the website that is located on Machine B
192.168.1.3 which is listening on port 81 not 80.
I am getting the default Apache Page on the Proxy server Machine
which is 192.168.1.4
And I do have the vhost in my configuration
Well there are two apaches running on the two machines, the proxy
machine and the web-server machine, except the web-server apache
listens on port 81, logically (technically) speaking it should work,
but for some reason it doesn't.
I hope it makes more sense to you what I am trying to describe here
Very helpful.
You can not have apache listening for port 80 on 192.168.1.4 and
Squid trying to do the same thing.
Only one process can have port 80.
You will very likely find a note in the squid logs that says
something to the effect that squid can not bind to port 80.
If you shutdown apache on 192.168.1.4 and restart squid, your proxy
will work (if the rest of the configuration is correct)
If you then try to start apache on 192.168.1.4 it will certainly
complain loudly about port 80 not being free.
If you want to use Apache on both 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.3 you
need to set the apache on 192.168.1.4 to listen on port 81 and set
squid to proxy to the apache on 192.168.1.4 and use apache's proxy
and vhost features to reach 192.168.1.5 which can be set to listen on
port 80.
This will support
browser=>Squid on 192.168.1.4 ==> Apache on 192.168.1.4:81 (vhost)
==>Apache 192.168.1.3:80
That is a pretty common approach.
Ron
Thank you all for your help
Regards
Adam
----- Original Message ----- From: "Amos Jeffries"
<squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: Help with accelerated site
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:48:27 -0400, Ron Wheeler
<rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is squid proxying?
Usually the normal behaviour is exactly what you are getting since
squid
normally proxies Apache on 80.
Browser ==> Squid on 80==>proxied to Apache on port 81.
If Squid is not proxying Apache, then it looks like you have Apache
running on 80.
If you are trying to redirect port 80 to another program that is not
Apache, then you need to get Apache off port 80.
You can not have 2 programs listening to port 80.
If Apache is running and owns port 80, Squid will not start.
If this is the case, You likely have errors in the logs to this
effect.
Shut down Apache and and restart Squid.
Try to start Apache and now it should howl with anger (or log in
anger)
at not getting port 80.
Ron
Adam@Gmail wrote:
Hello All,
I have followed this configuration, but when I try and access the
website from outside my network
All I get is the default page of the apache on the machine where the
Squid proxy is installed
Here is the link:
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Reverse/BasicAccelerator
here is the configuration I followed
http_port 80 accel defaultsite=your.main.website.name(changed my
port
to 81 my backend server listens on port 81)I havehttp_port 81 accel
defaultsite=www.my.website.org vhostand then used thiscache_peer
ip.of.webserver parent 80 0 no-query originserver
name=myAccelcache_peer 192.168.1.5 parent 81 0 no query originserver
name=myAccel(myAccel I have put a name)and then acl our_sites
dstdomain my.website.org
http_access allow our_sites
cache_peer_access myAccel allow our_sites
cache_peer_access myAccel deny all Anybody with any suggestions
please?Any help would be appreciated thank youRegardsAdam
Sorry, took me a while to un-mangle that original email text.
You are missing the "vhost" option on https_port 80. All traffic Squid
receives on port 80 will go to Apache's default virtual host.
Amos
