Re: [squid-users] suqid proxy and localhost problem

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am quite new to squid. I did a very minimal configuration started the
> software, configured browsers and all seems ok. With one exception. The box
> on which I run squid does not open http pages which it serves.

Depends on what you mean by 'it serves' and 'does not open'.
You probably want "http_access allow localhost" in squid.conf

> Can you
> advise me what I need to set up to allow this box to talk to me on port 80?
> For now, I do not use any SSL, squid is configured with the default port.

Yes. Squid would be talking to you on 3128 then. Port 80 is not the
default port.

Though why you would want to is something to consider very carefully.
Having it pretend to be a webserver is called reverse-proxy and has
different config needs, that vary from easy to tricky depending on things.

Amos
Received on Thu Jul 05 2007 - 06:13:11 MDT