RE: [squid-users] Help with accelerated site

Hi Adam, a few recommendations:

1) There are a number of consultancy and support organization that provide dedicated support for squid. If you can't find the answer here or yourself (via code or in docs), they might be an alternative you want to look into
2) The developers and people supporting squid on this list are all donating their time, they don't owe you, I, or anyone on here anything. Lambasting them isn't cool, and not appreciated by anyone on this list.
3) We all get frustrated with software, it's the nature of the business (I average a couple cycles of frustration a day myself). But lashing out in a public forum, against the very people that might be able to help you is like trying to catch flies with vinegar.
4) If you aren't getting the responses you need try refining your questions into smaller bites. There are a lot of emails in this forum and it's not always easy to digest a long email (again, the community support provided is free, if you need people to really dedicate time to your issue you should consider paying them for their time, e.g. refer back to suggestion #1).

I wish you the best of luck with your task, unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question myself or I would offer my own suggestions.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam_at_Gmail [mailto:adbasque_at_googlemail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:07 AM
To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Help with accelerated site

Hello All.
I have to say since I started using Squid I get thrown from one problem to another, followed every suggestion and every tutorial and I could not get through to my my backend server This is ridiculous now, I honestly start to believe that this whole project is a joke or the software isn't at all mature to deal with what it is supposed to deal with, it's still in a teething stages, and I believe that we are the guinea pigs of this project where they made us believe that it works, I do not believe for one second that it acctually works.

I have read so many questions regarding this particular issue and "nobody"
could come up with a straight answer, are we the only people with this issue? are we the only people with no luck?

The questions that was asked time and time again was never been answered, so please don't tell me that this thing works, I'd like to see it and don't tell me this whole site runs on a proxy Squid I'd like to see it aswell.

I was getting this before:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: /

The following error was encountered:

    * Invalid URLAnd I followed a suggestion I read on the mailing list, that maybe I needed to add a vhost after the http_port 3128Now I am getting this instead:The requested URL could not be retrieved--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The
following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL:
http://www.mysite.org/Access Denied.Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.Your cache administrator is webmaster.It's not acctually working at all, all it does is taking you from one problem to another, and so forth it's a none stop it'a bag of problems and nasty surprises, not to mention things you need to tweak on my system to make Mr Squid happierI am sorry guys but this thing doesn't work and I believe it when I see it and even if I see it working it's still ridiculousto spend as much time to get one piece of software to work.I have followed the tutorials to the letter and many suggestions, not to mention the amount of time I wasted on this thingnever before in my life I have spent as much time on any programme, this is the first time and I am not willing to spend the rest of my life trying to figure out something that doesn't work.Sorry guys but I am very very disapointed with this, I am just going to completely uninstall the whole thingAnd go back to the way it was before or perhaps look for an alternative for something that works.Thanks to all of you who tried to helpBest of luck to anyone who's still trying to solve Squid's never ending issues.Thank you.RegardsAdam----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Wheeler" <rwheeler_at_artifact-software.com>
To: "Adam_at_Gmail" <adbasque_at_googlemail.com>
Cc: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>; <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Help with accelerated site

> Adam_at_Gmail wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> Thanks for the reply Ron and Amos
>>
>>
>> Maybe my original e-mail wasn't clear a bit confusing I am sorry if I
>> confused you
>>
>> I have squid running on Machine A with let's say local ip 192.168.1.4
>> the backend server is running on machine B and ip address 192.168.1.3
>>
>> Now, instead of getting the website that is located on Machine B
>> 192.168.1.3 which is listening on port 81 not 80.
>> I am getting the default Apache Page on the Proxy server Machine
>> which is
>> 192.168.1.4
>>
>> And I do have the vhost in my configuration Well there are two
>> apaches running on the two machines, the proxy machine and the
>> web-server machine, except the web-server apache listens on port 81,
>> logically (technically) speaking it should work, but for some reason
>> it doesn't.
>> I hope it makes more sense to you what I am trying to describe here
>
> Very helpful.
> You can not have apache listening for port 80 on 192.168.1.4 and Squid
> trying to do the same thing.
> Only one process can have port 80.
> You will very likely find a note in the squid logs that says something
> to the effect that squid can not bind to port 80.
> If you shutdown apache on 192.168.1.4 and restart squid, your proxy
> will work (if the rest of the configuration is correct) If you then
> try to start apache on 192.168.1.4 it will certainly complain loudly
> about port 80 not being free.
>
> If you want to use Apache on both 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.3 you need
> to set the apache on 192.168.1.4 to listen on port 81 and set squid to
> proxy to the apache on 192.168.1.4 and use apache's proxy and vhost
> features to reach 192.168.1.5 which can be set to listen on port 80.
> This will support
> browser=>Squid on 192.168.1.4 ==> Apache on 192.168.1.4:81 (vhost)
> ==>Apache 192.168.1.3:80 That is a pretty common approach.
>
> Ron
>
>
>>
>> Thank you all for your help
>> Regards
>> Adam
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amos Jeffries"
>> <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
>> To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:01 AM
>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Help with accelerated site
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:48:27 -0400, Ron Wheeler
>>> <rwheeler_at_artifact-software.com> wrote:
>>>> What is squid proxying?
>>>> Usually the normal behaviour is exactly what you are getting since
>>>> squid
>>>
>>>> normally proxies Apache on 80.
>>>> Browser ==> Squid on 80==>proxied to Apache on port 81.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If Squid is not proxying Apache, then it looks like you have Apache
>>>> running on 80.
>>>>
>>>> If you are trying to redirect port 80 to another program that is
>>>> not Apache, then you need to get Apache off port 80.
>>>> You can not have 2 programs listening to port 80.
>>>>
>>>> If Apache is running and owns port 80, Squid will not start.
>>>>
>>>> If this is the case, You likely have errors in the logs to this effect.
>>>>
>>>> Shut down Apache and and restart Squid.
>>>>
>>>> Try to start Apache and now it should howl with anger (or log in
>>>> anger) at not getting port 80.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>> Adam_at_Gmail wrote:
>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have followed this configuration, but when I try and access the
>>>>> website from outside my network All I get is the default page of
>>>>> the apache on the machine where the Squid proxy is installed
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the link:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Reverse/BasicAccelerato
>>>>> r
>>>>>
>>>>> here is the configuration I followed
>>>>>
>>>>> http_port 80 accel defaultsite=your.main.website.name(changed my
>>>>> port to 81 my backend server listens on port 81)I havehttp_port 81
>>>>> accel defaultsite=www.my.website.org vhostand then used
>>>>> thiscache_peer ip.of.webserver parent 80 0 no-query originserver
>>>>> name=myAccelcache_peer 192.168.1.5 parent 81 0 no query
>>>>> originserver name=myAccel(myAccel I have put a name)and then acl
>>>>> our_sites dstdomain my.website.org http_access allow our_sites
>>>>> cache_peer_access myAccel allow our_sites cache_peer_access
>>>>> myAccel deny all Anybody with any suggestions please?Any help
>>>>> would be appreciated thank youRegardsAdam
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, took me a while to un-mangle that original email text.
>>>
>>> You are missing the "vhost" option on https_port 80. All traffic
>>> Squid receives on port 80 will go to Apache's default virtual host.
>>>
>>> Amos
>>>
>>
>>
>
Received on Sat Mar 27 2010 - 15:46:07 MDT