Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

Time for action – testing our configuration file

As we learned before, we can use the -k parse option to test our configuration file. Now, we are going to add a test line and see if Squid can catch the error.

1. For example, let's add the following line to our squid.conf file:

   unknown_directive 1234

2. Now we'll run Squid with the -k parse option as follows:

   squid -k parse
   

3. As unknown_directive is not a valid directive for the Squid configuration file, we should get an error similar to the following:

   2010/07/21 22:28:40| cache_cf.cc(346) squid.conf:945 unrecognized: 'unknown_directive'
   

So, if we find an error within our configuration file, we can go back and fix the errors and then parse the configuration file again.

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We first added an ...