How to setup proxy server

tanveer · 04-23-2007, 10:48 AM

Hi,
I want to setup proxy server in my home. My one PC has broadband connection and also connected locally with my other PC. I now want to setup a squid server for my 2nd pc. I have setup squid but when gives url from 2nd PC it gives

PHP Code:



ERROR 
The reuqested URL could not be retrieved. 
The following error was encountered: 
 - Unable to forward this request at this time. 
The request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches....

My Setup is as follows:

Code:

/etc/squid/squid.conf

http_port 8000
cache_mem 16 MB
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 1000 16 256


acl local src 192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0
# Gave these two lines before http_access allow localhost
never direct allow all
http_access allow local

squid -z

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
In /etc/sysctl.conf the net.ipv4.ip_forward =1
Also iptables is stop.

Do I have to set cache_peer ? Also do I have to set the hostname other than localhost.localdomain ?
Thanks in advance.

acid_kewpie · 04-23-2007, 02:31 PM

your config is incomplete / contradictory. it says that whilst your local /24 is allowed to access anything, the proxy must *always* use a peer, due to the "never direct" statement. you have no peers defined though... so it's just hitting a wall. note that "never direct" is relative to the proxy server, not the user. also you've no need to enable ip_forward here, you'd use that i you didn't use squid.

tanveer · 04-27-2007, 09:47 AM

Problem solved. Thanks. Just commented the line never_direct and also not using cache_peer. One more thing, whats the best tool to analyze squid performance in rhel4? Cacti or something else?