Re: [squid-users] How can I allow hosts to access web through squid without restarting?

"Riaz Uddin" <riaz190@hotmail.com> writes:

> Dear,
>
> I'm using squid as my proxy server in my network and allowing hosts to
> access web by setting my proxy server in browser. Without the setting people
> aren't allowed to access web. I'm very beginner in using squid. To allow
> host to access web I do two steps and steps are:
>
> 1. Write lines in squid.conf:
> acl usr1 src 172.16.0.5
> http_access allow usr1
> <has more.....>
>
> 2. After writing the above lines, I restart the squid service.

No need to restart squid.

Use squid -k parse to check your squid.conf for errors and when this
works use squid -k reconfigure to start using it. Connections in
progress will not be disturbed by this.

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