Squid: * connect to ipaddress port 3128 failed: Connection refused

Andrea

12/12/23, 8:46 AM

I'm setting up a proxy server with squid.

After all the steps, I restarted with
sudo systemctl restart squid.service
which returned: active.
I then attempted to test the connection:

curl -v -x http://your_squid_username:your_squid_password@ipaddress:3128 http://www.google.com/

This error was the result:

Trying ipaddress:3128...
connect to ipaddress port 3128 failed: Connection refused
Failed to connect to ipaddress port 3128 after 1 ms: Connection refused
Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to ipaddress port 3128 after 1 ms: Connection refused

The configuration file /etc/squid/squid.conf has these settings:

#
# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
#
include /etc/squid/conf.d/*.conf
auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid/passwords
auth_param basic realm proxy
acl authenticated proxy_auth REQUIRED
# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
acl localnet src ipaddress
# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
# from where browsing should be allowed
#http_access allow localnet
http_access allow localhost
http_access allow authenticated

# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
http_access deny all

I followed this guide. Everything went well until the start of Step 3 when I used curl to test the squid connection.

Is there anything in the squid.conf that needs to be changed? How do you fix this?

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Level9

12/12/23, 1:41 PM

Well, have a look at the Squid logs and see if they give you any clues. They should be available under /var/log/squid.

Andrea

12/12/23, 4:08 PM

There are two files under that folder `access.log` and `cache.log`. Both of them are blank.

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Andrea

12/12/23, 4:57 PM

Instead of the IP address that appears on ip2location.com or similar sites, the ipaddress should be either 127.0.0.1 or localhost. The command should then be curl -v -x http://your_squid_username:your_squid_password@127.0.0.1:3128 or curl -v -x http://your_squid_username:your_squid_password@localhost:3128

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Andrea

12/16/23, 6:12 AM

I actually managed to get get the status to `active`. Is this exclusive to squid users and not paid ISP proxies? I'm new to working with servers, sorry in advance if this question is very basic.

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