I'm running Mandrake 9.1 on a new server. TCP/IP and network interfaces are set up correctly (i.e. I can "get on the network and Internet"). When I install the SQUID rpm and set up the proxy server, (without changing any of the settings), SQUID disallows everything with the following message:

>ERROR
>
>The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
>While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/
>
>The following error was encountered:
>
>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 root.

What's curious is that I've set up SQUID before this way (to test for functionality before setting ACLs), and it's always worked. Any suggestions?

- Ryan

You probably just need to define an allowed network... Also, I've noticed that Squid is sensitive to the order in which the rules are listed in the config file, so that also have something to do with it...
like 'http_acccess allow network' before 'http_access deny all'.

Just to be sure...

Is that in the http_access section, ACL section, or somewhere else?

Short answer: the allowed network is defined in the 'acl' section, and the rule allowing access is under the 'http_access' section.

For squid-2.4.STABLE6-6.7.3 (the latest version for RH7.2) /etc/squid/squid.conf:

Line 1418: acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
Stick another line in: acl yournetwork src 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0

Line 1466: http_access allow localhost
Stcik another line in: http_access allow yournetwork

Restart Squid [nessasary?] (/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid restart) and you should be off and running.

These numbers might not be perfect, but the file is friggin' huge, so this should at least get you on the right page.