Dear friends,

I have a SARG (squid report) run from an apache webserver. To visit the report from browser, user just need to type http://ipofserver/reports. However recently when I tried to access the report, it gave me the following error:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: /reports

The following error was encountered:

* Invalid URL

Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems:

* Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be `http://'' or similar)
* Missing hostname
* Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
* Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed

Your cache administrator is root.


For proper access, it usually prompt me for username and password first, but this one didn't evne prompt, it just took me to the error page.

I couldn't find any error in the log files of apache and squid. everything looks normal for squid and apache. But what is wrong? Anyone who has experienced that please teach me how to trouble shoot.
thanks a lot for taking note of my query!

No notes in log files??? I do not believe.... Look there again.
[may be you turned logging off???]

Hi there,

thanks for your help,
sorry I misinterpreted, actually I mean there is no error or unusual information in the log files. Everything is normal in there.
But I have figured out the problem, its nothing to do with squid, sarg. Its the problem with the iptables.

thanks for your help!

Hello, Niceman2005!
Let me say some words about iptables.
After I set them up [allow all necessary traffic and set default policy DROP to INPUT chain] I often add some ' -j LOG ' rules with good informative ' --log-prefix "xxxxxxx: " 'to the end of chain. This helps me to determine some problems or even possible breaking attempts. Also it is a good practice to use different log file for iptables's log.
Wish your servers not to die!

Thanks friend!