Squid in accelerator mode; Permalink "mod_rewrite" problem.

[shanefroebel]

Yesterday I installed squid on our main domain, battlestarwiki.org. And our WordPress (Version 2.2), installed at blog.battlestarwiki.org, falls under the domain. When I went to "click" on a link, it brings me back to the "main" index.

​http://blog.battlestarwiki.org/2007/02/19/ahoy-matty-i-got-me-a-squid/ is a perfect example. Clicking on the link, does not allow me to view the single post by itself.

We have Mediawiki installed and it works just fine with mod_rewrite.

Thanks for your time. :-)

[foolswisdom]

shanefroebel, thank you for participating in WordPress! As WordPress uses the same or very similar mod write rules as other blogging systems, I would be surprised if the fault is WordPress'.

I don't really understand the nature of these problems, but someone on IRC suggested "try 404 handler. probably PATH_INFO is mangled on your side"

Realistically, if the problem is WordPress' it is unlikely be be resolved unless you are able to isolate the problem further.

[shanefroebel]

Expain.. I don't quite understand what you mean to test.

[shanefroebel]

Ok.. I've done some digging into the WordPress code itself. When I installed a new version of WordPress on the server, the "URL" for the administration settings "WordPress Address (URL)" and "Blog Address (URL)" came out to be:

​http://blog.battlestarwiki.orghttp://blog.battlestarwiki.org/index.php

So this tells me, as Squid reads the installation from Apache, the location paths are not correct when trying to run a rewrite URL. Now squid "acts" as the "processing" point (external IP address) and talks with Apache which is now on 127.0.0.1. So when everything goes through it it changes it's makeup.

Now I looked through the rewrite class, and I can not make heads or tails on how to see how it works. Somewhere in their is where something has to be defined to say "oh, we have squid installed. Goto the right "url/file" location.

I hope that is clear enough.

[markjaquith]

There should be no index.php in your Blog Address setting.

[shanefroebel]

I have had that removed for a while. Doesn't WordPress.com use Squid?

[foolswisdom]

Replying to shanefroebel:

I have had that removed for a while. Doesn't WordPress.com use Squid?

I asked and the answer is no. The answer of what we do use is likely in our job posting page: Debian/Ubuntu, PHP, MySQL, Litespeed, Pound, Wackamole, Spread, Nagios, Munin, Monit, NFS, Postfix, MyDNS.

[shanefroebel]

Great :(

[shanefroebel]

What file process the "mod_rewrite" requests (i.e. filenames and line numbers) and I could try to work on a fix for us squid needed people.

[Nazgul]

See also #3686.

[Viper007Bond]

I use Squid as a reverse proxy on ​http://www.finalgear.com/ with no problems. Since this ticket is over 2 years old and I personally have WordPress working with Squid and Apache with no problems (no idea about the configuration though as I didn't set it up), I'm gonna close it as worksforme. If anyone is still having trouble, please reopen.