Re: [squid-users] Squid refuses to cache requests.

Have you changed owner of the cache directories and their content?

chown -R testacct15 /home/testacct15/squid/cache

Regards
Henrik

On Friday 19 April 2002 22:20, Mike Brogioli wrote:
> Here are my changes to squid.conf. Keep in mind that squid was
> caching content until I killed it and tried running it again. I'm
> curious if squid leaves residual files around or
> something...because I killed it via the PID...not the "squid -k
> shutdown" unfortunatly. Perhaps this left things in an invalid
> state. I wiped the disk clean and did a full re-install after that
> though, and still it refused to cache. Changes to squid.conf are
> below....thanks for the assistance.
>
> #Default:
> cache_mem 8 MB
> ...
> # cache_dir ufs /home/testacct15/squid/cache 100 16 256
> cache_dir ufs /home/testacct15/squid/cache 100 16 256
> ....
> http_access allow localhost
> ....
> # cache_effective_user nobody
> # cache_effective_group nogroup
> cache_effective_user testacct15 # nobody
> cache_effective_group nobody #
>
>
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> Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: 2062 Duncan
> Hall Rice University Phone: (713)
> 348-5707 6100 Main Street Fax:
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>
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Joe Cooper wrote:
> > Would you mind posting the items you've changed from defaaults in
> > the squid.conf? Perhaps there is something there that would
> > explain it.
> >
> > You may want to watch the store.log and cache.log as well, to see
> > if they will tell you why Squid isn't caching or isn't serving
> > hits.
> >
> > Mike Brogioli wrote:
> > > I posted this question the other day, but I'm still stuck on
> > > it. Details are below. One thing I wanted to add is that
> > > Squid was caching data fine originally. I shutdown squid, and
> > > did a make. After that squid refused to cache anything when it
> > > started back up. I even blew out the entire squid tree and
> > > re-installed from scratch...but nothing. Details of the logs
> > > and system are below.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm running trying to run squid and webpolygraph all on a local
> > > quad processor machine to gather some runtime profiling data.
> > > Basically just trying to get everything talking to each other.
> > > The situation is that the client talks to squid, but every time
> > > the client accesses squid, it results in a cache miss and a
> > > subsequent direct access. It doesn't matter how many times the
> > > same document is requested...squid refuses to cache anything.
> > >
> > > The operating system I'm running is Red Hat Linux 7.1 on a quad
> > > processor ia64 machine. Squid is running on port 8081, as I'm
> > > not root on the machine.
> > >
> > > I've included sample output from relevant files ( I think ).
> > > Any assistance as to why squid isn't caching *any* documents is
> > > of great help.
> > >
> > > Here is a snippet from from my access.log file,
> > > this is what every entry looks like...even if I use
> > > the client program and request "cachable" documents
> > > manually multiple times:
> > > -----------------------------------------------
> > > 1019076870.656 89 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 10814 GET
> > > http://www.ece.rice.edu - DIRECT/128.42.4.119 text/html
> > > 1019076878.052 69 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 10814 GET
> > > http://www.ece.rice.edu - DIRECT/128.42.4.119 text/html
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is a snipped of what webpolygraphs 'polyclt' program
> > > shows during debug output. The documents are
> > > cache-control public, and have reasonable expiration dates:
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > 1019076937.118015# obj:
> > > http://127.0.0.1:8080/w065c96fa.21691504:00000004/t01/_0000003d
> > > xact: 065c96fa.21691504:0000029c
> > > HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> > > Cache-Control: public
> > > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:55:37 GMT
> > > Expires: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:55:14 GMT
> > > Last-Modified: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:55:14 GMT
> > > Content-Length: 18127
> > > X-Xact: 065c96e5.2c881503:00000002 065c96fa.21691504:7ffffd63
> > > 332/332 X-Srv-Wid: 065c96e5.2c881503:00000004
> > > X-Srv-Sets: 65:-1.47
> > > X-Srv-Nids: 20:305.16
> > > X-Phase-Sync-Pos: 0
> > > X-Cache: MISS from ia64beta.ir.rice.edu
> > > Proxy-Connection: close
> > >
> > > ***************************************************************
> > >*************** Michael C. Brogioli, MS/PhD Student
> > > Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: 2062
> > > Duncan Hall Rice University
> > > Phone: (713) 348-5707 6100 Main Street
> > > Fax: (713) 348-5686 Houston, Texas 77005
> > > Email: brogioli@rice.edu
> > > ***************************************************************
> > >***************
> >
> > --
> > Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> > http://www.swelltech.com
> > Web Caching Appliances and Support

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