Re: Re[2]: [squid-users] 2.6 documentation

lör 2006-12-30 klockan 12:30 +0100 skrev Torsten Kurbad:

> I also had to set up an accelerator a short while ago and found it very
> hard to deal with that very narrow piece of documentation.
> In fact, I have a Zope server running on port 9966, and since our users
> are used to that port, I set up a squid, listening on hostname:9966 and
> bound Zope to localhost:9966.
> I tried several combinations of vhost, vport, vport= and
> corresponding cache_peer-lines, but squid insisted to catch things from
> localhost:80, although that port was never mentioned in the setup.
> Finally I gave up trying alternatives and switched the whole thing to
> port 80, which worked...

Not sure what you did, but it's damn hard to get it wrong..

http_port XXX defaultsite=your.main.site
cache_peer localhost parent 9966 0 no-query originserver

and if you have multiple domains then add vhost to the http_port.

> >From that arose two questions:
> 1) How is it possible, to accelerate "something" that is not running on
> port 80?

Yes.

> 2) What is a "Host directive" (cf. vhost) - this term is never mentioned
> again in the squid.conf.default?

It's a minor typo.. should read Host header.

Regards
Henrik