{"id":514,"date":"2008-10-21T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=514"},"modified":"2010-08-08T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T20:36:52","slug":"getting-squid-internet-proxy-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/10\/getting-squid-internet-proxy-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Squid (Internet Proxy) Working"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem<\/h3>\n

After configuring Safari and Firefox to use my local network’s squid proxy, I got the following error whenever I tried to browse to a page:<\/p>\n

\n
ERROR\r\n\r\nThe requested URL could not be retrieved<\/pre>\n
\r\nWhile trying to retrieve the URL:  http:\/\/www.google.com\/\r\n\r\nThe following error was encountered:\r\n<\/pre>\n
 * Access Denied. <\/pre>\n
   Access control configuration prevents your request from \r\n   being allowed at this time. Please contact your service \r\n   provider if you feel this is incorrect.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Solution<\/h3>\n
The squid.conf file on my server wasn’t configured correctly.  Actually, I had simply neglected to ever bother configuring it!  By default, Squid rejects all requests.<\/p>\n
I edited the Squid configuration file:<\/p>\n
\n
sudo vi \/etc\/squid\/squid.conf<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Changing from this:<\/p>\n
\n
# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt\r\n# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should\r\n# be allowed\r\n#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0\/24 192.168.2.0\/24\r\n#http_access allow our_networks<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
To this:<\/p>\n
\n
# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt\r\n# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should\r\n# be allowed\r\nacl our_networks src 192.168.1.0\/24\r\nhttp_access allow our_networks\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Then restarted Squid:<\/p>\n
\n
sudo \/etc\/init.d\/squid restart<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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