Re: [squid-users] how to use accel url_rewrite_program urlgroup and cache_peer?

On mån, 2007-10-01 at 15:55 +0200, Sylvain Viart wrote:
> Now with url_rewrite_program, http_port accel, cache_peer it seems I
> should be able to do it in full squid.conf directive.

Yes, as long as you don't need to actually rewrite the URL, just have it
forwarded to the properserver.

> For now my squid works on the load balancing side, but not on filtering,
> as the filtered url are also balanced on the originserver.
>
> Here is my related squid.conf directives:
>
> # I do vhost namebased
> http_port 80 defaultsite=my.site.com vhost
>
> # the rewrite filter
> url_rewrite_program /etc/squid/redirector.pl
> url_rewrite_children 5
> url_rewrite_concurrency 0
> url_rewrite_host_header off
>
> cache_peer php-01 parent 80 0 no-query originserver round-robin weight=1
> login=PASS
> cache_peer php-02 parent 80 0 no-query originserver round-robin weight=1
> login=PASS
>
> /etc/squid/redirector.pl return, the incomming URL if not matched, or
> the url with the domain replaced with the filer's hostname if it matches
> a static document.
> ex: http://filer/imagepath/someimg.jpg
>
> I don't find any good doc on how to use all those rewriting url + peer
> balancing etc. Can someone point me to some good ref?

If you can drop the url rewriter and use cache_peer_access instead to
direct which requests is acceptable to send to which peer.

Regards
Henrik