Apache & Squid

I think /var/spool/squid permissions do not allow apache to read files from there, please check if apache user can access /var/spool/squid/ and directories deeper. An easy way to check it is:
usermod -s /bin/bash apache
su - apache
cd /var/spool/squid
cd video_cache
exit
usermod -s /sbin/nologin apache

Apache is the user apache is running under, on RHEL or centos (and most redhat based it is apache). If you cannot change dir to /var/spool/squid, then change mode to 0755, or change directory group to apache.

hi

when i used the command     su - apache    it gives me: This account is currently not available.

when i use  usermod -s /sbin/nologin apache    , it accepts it
when i put in the browser   http://192.186.10.1         it gives me the apache page

still have this forbidden error for   http://192.186.10.1/video_cache/
 

where can i see the result of the chown and chmod ???

ls -l /var/spool/ will print all directories in /var/spool/ and their owner/groups and directory mode.

I wrote usermod -s /bin/bash apache <- this enables bash for apache, after this command su - apache will return shell, not that message, to return old shell less apache account you had to write usermod -s /sbin/nologin apache

This was the result:

[root@star squid]# ls -l /var/spool/
total 112
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Nov 12 00:48 anacron
drwx------  3 daemon daemon 4096 Nov 12 00:39 at
drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp  4096 Mar 15  2007 clientmqueue
drwx------  2 root   root   4096 Nov 10  2007 cron
drwx--x---  3 root   lp     4096 Nov 12 00:38 cups
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Mar 29  2007 lpd
drwxrwxr-x  2 root   mail   4096 Nov 12 00:39 mail
drwx------  2 root   mail   4096 Mar 15  2007 mqueue
drwxr-xr-x  8 news   news   4096 Nov 12 00:40 news
drwxr-xr-x  2 rpm    rpm    4096 May 24 21:44 repackage
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Jan  7  2007 rwho
drwxrwxrwt  2 root   root   4096 May 26 00:41 samba
drwxr-x--- 19 squid  squid  4096 Nov 12 03:18 squid
drwxrwxrwt  2 root   root   4096 May 24 18:06 vbox
[root@star squid]# usermod -s /bin/bash apache
[root@star squid]# su - apache
-bash-3.2$
-bash-3.2$

Well squid directory is accessible only by squid (and root) apache doesn't have rights to enter there. There are two solution, change mode to 0755 (chmod 0755 /var/spool/squid), or change group (chown :apache /var/spool/squid). Both solution are not secure, but the second one is better (only apache and squid will be able to read files, not all other user on that server).

If you are using RHEL or centos, please also enter this command:
sestatus


Selinux might block request even after you change directory rights to correct ones.

hi

still not working
can i type the permission manually somewhere in a file?

Please write output of this commands:
ls -l /var/spool/
sestatus
ls -l /var/spool/squid | grep video_cache

[root@star ~]# ls -l /var/spool/
total 112
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Nov 12 00:48 anacron
drwx------  3 daemon daemon 4096 Nov 12 00:39 at
drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp  4096 Nov 12 04:04 clientmqueue
drwx------  2 root   root   4096 Nov 10  2007 cron
drwx--x---  3 root   lp     4096 Nov 12 00:38 cups
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Mar 29  2007 lpd
drwxrwxr-x  2 root   mail   4096 Nov 12 04:04 mail
drwx------  2 root   mail   4096 Nov 12 04:04 mqueue
drwxr-xr-x  8 news   news   4096 Nov 12 00:40 news
drwxr-xr-x  2 rpm    rpm    4096 May 24 21:44 repackage
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 Jan  7  2007 rwho
drwxrwxrwt  2 root   root   4096 May 26 00:41 samba
drwxr-xr-x 19 squid  apache 4096 Nov 12 03:18 squid
drwxrwxrwt  2 root   root   4096 May 24 18:06 vbox
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@star ~]# sestatus
SELinux status:                 disabled
[root@star ~]# ls -l /var/spool/squid | grep video_cache
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  apache  4096 Nov 12 02:15 video_cache

Please provide error message from apache error log, and apache configuration part where you configured access to /var/spool/squid/video_cache.

ok

but httpd.conf cannot be attached ,here is the part:

<Directory "/var/spool/squid/video_cache">
 Order Allow,Deny
 Allow from all
</Directory>

What is the documentroot? You can attach httpd.conf if you will rename it to httpd.txt

Hi

you can see the setup file at http://www.cachevideos.com

youtube_cache-1.2.tar.gz

i can't upload its extension


httpd.txt
squid.txt
youtube-cache.txt

hmm, in httpd.conf there is no <Directory "/var/spool/squid/video_cache">... you forgot to include some file...

still no luck

Ok, if you want to see your files, then as an experiment change documentroot to /var/spool/squid/video_cache

Btw, what link are you using when you test access to video_cache...

in IE i use it as follow:

http://192.186.10.1/video_cache

From your given configuration it is not possible to access that directory, because you simply didn't tell apache to serve from there
Change
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

To
DocumentRoot "/var/spool/squid/"
And the use that link.

hi
there was a bug in the software i was using. its author has corrected it and now its working very fine .
thanks for the help

there was a bug in the software i was using and its corrected by the author. thanks for the help