We have a squid proxy running on port 8080 and we want to allow access to a web server running on port 8080 through the squid box.

Adding port 8080 to the Safe_ports list does not resolve the problem.

Please help. Thanks in advance.

safe_ports is the right way to do it (among others of course..) what does your config actually look like now?

now the configuration options are (only posting relevant stuff);

http_port 8080

acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl test src 192.168.27.115-192.168.27.120/255.255.255.255
acl DBN src 192.168.0.0/255.255.224.0
acl DBN src 172.23.0.0/255.255.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443
acl SSL_ports port 8443
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 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 8080 # misc
acl CONNECT method CONNECT

hmm, ok looks fine. what's the corresponding access.log entries look like?

this is the access.log entry;

well that's a valid cache miss... looks fine to me.

yes. but the problem is this is the only log entry i see whenever a user try to access that site. However when we access the site bypassing proxy we can see the contents of that site.

does this mean that the proxy dops 8080 from the outgoing request?

no, it's says that the proxy server is going direct to that machine to fulfil the requst.

thanks for your reply. However since that method does not work can you please tell me an alternative way.

sorry? i guess you really don't understand what your own question actually is? squid is working correctly. totally fine...

well the thing is if squid works well (regarding port 8080) why can't i see the web page when using squid and why can i see when i bypass proxy. in both case i only type http://192.168.71.61:8080/ in the browser. I tried with IE and Firefox as well.

Thanks.

well try viewing that page from the server machine itself, that's effectively what squid appears to be doing already...