Re: [squid-users] trouble using include

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:20:37 +1300

On 26/11/2011 4:33 a.m., yvan vander sanden wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have trouble using the include directive in /etc/squid3/squid.conf.
> I am using the latest source, compiled yesterday. So it's version
> 3.1.16
>
> I'm using it this way:
>
> include /var/www/html/squid/filterlist.conf
>
> Now I am quite sure that the file gets read, because if I put 'blabla'
> on a line in filterlist.conf I get an error about it when I reload.
> But a real command in there don't get added. I have acl's for groups
> of computers like this:
>
> acl CO114 192.168.114.0/24
>
> now If i write the next command directly in squid.conf:
>
> http_access deny CO114
>
> all is ok. But when i put that in the includefile (located just below)
> it won't work. (So the subnet still has web access).
>
> Since the http_access i used to test and the include directive are
> just below each other, it can't be because of another allow directive
> someplace else. And it can't be because of access rights on the
> included file because i do get a message if an unknown command is in
> there.
>
> So I'd like to get some help, if someone here knows more of using this
> include directive. Or perhaps, is there an easy way to see what
> happens? I've tried putting debug on an going through the logs, but
> the information is massive that way and i don't really know where to
> look.

To see what happens with include you can run "squid -X -k parse 2>&1 |
grep Processing". That is the squid.conf content and order which Squid
is loading directives.

After that parse process there is no difference between include and
non-include config handling.

Amos
Received on Fri Nov 25 2011 - 23:20:47 MST

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