Hi,
I ma facing some problem with my squid server. I am unable to connect to internet for the lcoal machine as well as on other machines. Here is the conf file for my squid server.

cat /etc/squid/squid.conf

http_port 8080

acl oracle src 10.178.92.0/255.255.252.0
http_access allow localhost
http_access allow oracle


firewall and the selinux are off

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=10.178.95.255
HWADDR=00:0C:29:68:F7:AE
IPADDR=10.178.92.121
NETMASK=255.255.252.0
NETWORK=10.178.92.0
ONBOOT=yes


and I have made the necessasy changes in my firefox by entering the squid server and the port nummber in that.

browser is showing:
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."



Please suggest what needs to be done in this case
Waiting for the reply.

Where have you put the http_access option?
Are they below http_access deny all?

yes this is below http_access deny all

my conf file for squid.conf contains :------


[root@linuxsvr15 ~]# grep -v "^#" /etc/squid/squid.conf | sed -e '/^$/d'
http_port 8080
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
cache deny QUERY
acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache
broken_vary_encoding allow apache
access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
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 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 CONNECT method CONNECT
acl mylan src 10.178.92.0/255.255.252.0
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager
http_access allow localhost
http_access allow mylan
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_reply_access allow all
icp_access allow all
coredump_dir /var/spool/squid


Please check and let me know if any thing else needs to be done in this.

You should have http_access allow options on top and then deny all others with
http_access deny all. But this option should be at the bottom.