Getting Troubleshooting Squid Proxy Server

Troubleshooting technics is very important to trace your problem on how fast you solve the problem. Here are the step by step tutorial for how to troubleshoot you squid proxy server when your proxy server is down. For these examples, i'm using squid which is running on Linux fedora 10.

How to troubleshoot when your squid proxy server is not running?

1.  Su to root user
[fedora10@fedora ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@fedora ~]#

2. check network card
[root@fedora ~]# service network status
Configured devices:
lo eth0 eth1
Currently active devices:
lo
[root@fedora ~]#

3. Bring up network card
[root@fedora ~]# ifup eth0
[root@fedora ~]# ifup eth1
[root@fedora ~]#

4. Verify your network status
[root@fedora ~]# service network status
Configured devices:
lo eth0 eth1
Currently active devices:
lo eth0 eth1
[root@fedora ~]#

5. Check SQUID service
[root@fedora ~]# service squid status
squid is stopped
[root@fedora ~]#

6. Start SQUID service
[root@fedora ~]# service squid start
Starting squid: .                                          [  OK  ]
[root@fedora ~]#

7. Verify SQUID status
[root@fedora ~]# service squid status
squid (pid  3651) is running...
[root@fedora ~]#

8. CHECK iptables status

Install Apache Web Server using YUM Setup and Configuration on Fedora Core Server.

In Linux distributions, normally the default web server will use Apache as known as httpd. The configuration files for httpd is located on directory /etc/httpd.  This step by step tutorial will show and explain how the apache web sever working on the Fedora Core Operating System Server.

Install Apache Web Server.