Dear All,

I am trying to install squid “squid-2.5.STABLE7.tar.gz” downloaded from squid-cache on redhat linux 9.0.
Below are the steps that I’ve taken to install the squid:-

tar -xvzf squid-2.STABLE7.tar.gz
cd squid -*
./configure
make
make install

After this step, I did amended the “squid.conf” to add the 2 lines follows:-
http_port 8080
visible_hostname “my server name”
unique_hostname “my server name”

After these steps, I executed the command below
/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z

and the server returns the error as follows:-

FATAL : Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set “visible_hostname”

Squid cache (version 2.5 stable1): Terminated Abnormally
CPU usges : 0.020 Seconds = 0.000 user + 0.020 sys
Maximum Resident size: 0 KB
page faults with physical i/o : 402
Aborted.

Can someone help me or tell me where can I find the solution to this problem?

Thanks

Sorry people,

now i'm able to executed the comand :-

/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -NCdl

but when the comand is executed, it doesn't return

"Ready to server requests"

and it just hand hang at the comand prompt without returning any status.

Hope someone can help.

Many thanks

FATAL : Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set “visible_hostname”

this error shows that u havent specify the hostname in the squid.conf file...put your hostname other then localhostand try to restart the squid

Thanks hasnain,

I'm now facing another problem.....
I 'm actually setting up the squid proxy via the netscape proxy. my situation now is after amending the squid.conf.....i found that i'm able to access the url "www.yahoo.com". However, when i click on the URL link "mail link" and i got the following error message :

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While trying to retrieve the URL:http://mail.yahoo.com/?
The following error was encountered
COnnection Failed

The System returned
(111) Connection refused

The remote host or network maybe down. Please try the request again
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The browser shows the address "http://mail.yahoo.com/?.intl=us when i click "refresh" the error remain but when I type "http://mail.yahoo.com" then i can go to the correct site.

What can go wrong? Pls help