Re: [squid-users] Squid Reverse Proxy cannot open ports

Hey,

if you insist on serving the local port 80 from the same server I would
say you need to make sure the servers are listening to the current port
using:
netstat -ntlp

what is the output??

Eliezer

On 07/17/2013 12:00 AM, jc.yin wrote:
> I'm not sure if what I've done is correct but I've tried my best to follow
> the instructions found on the Squid documentation page.
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy
>
> Basically I need to set up a reverse Squid proxy with the web server on the
> same server.
>
> Basically what I did was:
>
> 1. Add these to the top of Squid.conf file
>
> "http_port the.public.ip.address:80 accel defaultsite=your.main.website
> cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 80 0 no-query originserver
>
> acl our_sites dstdomain your.main.site.name
> http_access allow our_sites
> cache_peer_access myAccel allow our_sites
> cache_peer_access myAccel deny all"
>
>
>
> 2. Add this to ports.conf is /etc/apache2
>
> Listen 127.0.0.1:80
>
>
> Then I've restarted both Squid and Apache but when I try to access
> "the.public.ip.address" which is my test server's public address, I get the
> message unable to connect. This must mean that my ports are incorrectly
> configured.
>
>
> From what I understand, in order for both Squid Reverse Proxy and the Web
> Server to reside together,
>
> 1. Squid has to be set to listen to port 80 on the public IP (which I've set
> according to the instruction)
>
> 2. Apache has to be set to listen to 127.0.0.1 on port 80 (this part I'm
> kinda confused and probably messed up)
>
>
> I found this tutorial but it suggested some totally different methods from
> the official Squid method and I couldn't find most of the functions its
> asking me to change:
> http://www.visolve.com/squid/whitepapers/reverseproxy.php
>
> Apart from that I've not had too much luck finding documentation on setting
> up Squid Reverse Proxy and Web Server on the same server, so that's why I'm
> asking here.
>
>
> Any help is really appreciated
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
> *P.S* I have changed all of the "the.public.ip.address" to my public IP
>
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 17 2013 - 00:47:52 MDT