Squid cannot open HTTP Port

Hi NG,

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Server 4 and squid.
I configured squid.conf for squid to act as a reverse proxy.
For this goal, squid has to listen on port 80 and 443.

e.g.
http_port is set to 80

when i execute squid, errors occure like:

(squid): Cannot open HTTP Port

Ok, 80 is a priviledged port (<1024) and the user as which squid runs as
(squid), needs to have root rights.


For this case there is a directive called:
cache_effective_user

This directive set to "root" brings up following error:

(squid): Don't run Squid as root, set 'cache_effective_user'!

any suggestions?

marc

Marc August <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:3oq8nrF76cdcU1
@individual.net:

> Hi NG,
>
> I am using Red Hat Enterprise Server 4 and squid.
> I configured squid.conf for squid to act as a reverse proxy.
> For this goal, squid has to listen on port 80 and 443.
>
> e.g.
> http_port is set to 80
>
> when i execute squid, errors occure like:
>
> (squid): Cannot open HTTP Port

Maybe another app already listening on port 80? Make sure appache isn't
running on this box.

Klazmon