[squid-users] Need configuration advise

Hi

I would like to use Squid servers in my network for a couple of reasons
but I am having trouble making it all work together.

I have a central site with a webserver that needs acceleration, and I
have about 1000 external sites each with 10-50 clients that need a local
cache to save bandwidth.

The clients on my local sites are not web users, but an automated client
that downloads files based on rules.

My first goal is to set up the central HTTP Accelerator (reverse proxy)
to help out my webserver. The content is protected using Basic
Authentication. I have set up the accelerator using the following
configuration (Squid 2.6 Stable 10):

http_port 80 accel defaultsite=centralsquid.foo.bar
cache_peer webserver.foo.bar parent 80 0 no-query originserver
login=PASS
url_rewrite_host_header off
collapsed_forwarding on
acl port80 port 80
http_access allow port80

This seems to work just fine.

My second goal is to set up the proxy-cache at the local sites. My idea
was to configure this as a reverse proxy for the central accelerator. So
what I did was to configure this server much the same way as the central
accelerator, only I point the local squid at the central squid:

http_port 80 accel defaultsite=localsquid001.foo.bar
cache_peer centralsquid.foo.bar parent 80 0 no-query originserver
login=PASS
url_rewrite_host_header off
collapsed_forwarding on
acl port80 port 80
http_access allow port80

This does not work, and I am stuck. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
Is it possible to pull this off?

Regards

Roland Rabben
Received on Mon Mar 12 2007 - 02:25:00 MDT