Greetings all,
Was wondering if it is possible to configure nginx as a reverse proxy
that forwards to a squid proxy server.
Currently I am using Squid as a forward proxy to another internal Squid
proxy server:
cache_peer internal_squid_proxy parent 8000 0 no-query
cache_peer_access internal_system allow internal_squid_proxy https
I’ve looked at the reverse proxy SSL write up here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-setup-nginx-ssl-proxy/
That looks pretty close to what I want to do, except instead of
reversing directly to a web server, I need to reverse to a forward
proxy.
Ie, something like:
location / {
proxy_pass http://internal_squid_proxy;
}
Is there a cache_peer equivalent (instead of proxy_pass) for nginx?
Thank you,
Robert
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On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:21 PM, Vivek Gite wrote:
You can connect directly to your proxy server and proxy will connect
to Apache backend.
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Perhaps I’m asking the question in the wrong way.
I got nginx to send connections to the internal squid server, but it’s
treating it like a normal web server instead of an HTTP proxy. How can I
get nginx to use the proxy as a proxy, instead of a web server?
So when I visit the nginx server, I just get:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: /
The following error was encountered:
Invalid URL
Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems:
Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be `http://‘’ or similar)
Missing hostname
Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed
Your cache administrator is webmaster.
Generated Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:31:07 GMT by internal_squid_server
(squid/3.0.STABLE12)
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