We are tring to set up our Mandria 10 distro as a proxy. We are going with Squid 2.4 as our software of choice.

We have done the following steps:

Complied ("make" and "make install") Squid - No Errors
Created user and group "Squid"
We tried to run squid -z as our tutorial instructed but it is not found in:
/usr/local/squid/bin

So we created the cache manually at:
/usr/local/squid/cache

And used Chown to change ownership of the file to "Squid"

Then we ran ./RunCache & which yeilded errors.

Looking into the error log, it told us that we need to set visible_hostname in the squid.conf file.

We did this by addind the line:

visible_hostname arltoyproxy

But we still get the error. Is there anything we need to run/restart to get squid to pick up the change?

Thanks in advance.

Here is the output of squid.conf without comments

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hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?

acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY
cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 100 16 256
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
auth_param basic casesensitive off
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 443 563
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
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
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access deny all
http_reply_access allow all
icp_access allow all
visible_hostname arltoyproxy
coredump_dir /usr/local/squid/var/cache

Matt could you email me the PDF you got
Jason