Re: cachemgr.cgi won't work from remote host

At 21:44 11/10/96 +0900, Adrian Havill wrote:
>We are trying to use cachemgr.cgi from our server at
><http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/> to access our proxy running on a
>sun4m at <http://oproxy.osk.threewebnet.or.jp:8088/>.
>
>I followed the instructions at <http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ.txt>
>and tried various combinations of the recommendations in there,
>HUPing and re-HUPing. I even suspected it might not be re-loading the
>conf file and I tried TERMing it and restarting it.
[snip]
>Any ideas about what I'm missing?

Do other changes to your config file take effect?

>BTW, I was not successful in using the FAQ advice about changing the
>default proxy and port by changing:
>
> HOST_OPT = # -DCACHEMGR_HOSTNAME="getfullhostname()"
>
>to change the default, I resorted to hard-coding the hostname in
>cachemgr.c where the appropriate #defines where. Horrible style,
>I know. :)

At some point between my writing that bit and it appearing on the web page,
something disappeared, probably over the page boundary or something. Anyway,
what _should_ work is:

HOST_OPT = -DCACHEMGR_HOSTNAME=\"mywwwcache.domain.com\"

Tell me if this is not the case.

Jonathan L.
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Received on Fri Oct 11 1996 - 07:32:21 MDT