How to setup squid simplest way for safe proxy?

Question

I have installed squid on my remote linux box and added my desktop's IP as

acl lagrangian64 src XX.XX.XX.XX/32

in squid config.

Also I have added lagrangian64 to the following line:

http_access allow manager localhost lagrangian64

Was this enough and correct?

I am getting and error while browsing any site with this proxy:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/
...
Access Denied
...

How to allow myself to browse? What I did up for now?

Answer 1

After configuring settings in squid.conf have you reload squid configuration by doing squid -k reconfigure ? or have you restart squid service ? if possible post your all params in squid.conf grep -Ev "^$|^#" /etc/squid/squid.conf

Answer 2

The line http_access allow manager localhost lagrangian64 allows you to access squid's management interface. All conditions must be matched for a rule to apply - in this case, your IP and localhost (which is impossible) must try to access the manager (which is defined in an earlier acl manager line in the default config file). This should work:

# Allow your IP to everything HTTP
http_access allow lagrangian64
# Allow localhost access
http_access allow localhost
# Deny all other access
http_access deny all

You might also want to comment out some other deny lines, like one limiting the SSL ports.