How to configure Squid to allow access to cache manager when Squid port is not 3128

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Issue

  • When having squid listen on a different port than 3128 (port 80 in the example below) and restricting the Safe_ports ACL, the cache manager cannot be queried

    # grep "acl Safe_ports" /etc/squid/squid.conf
acl Safe_ports port 80      # http
# grep -w http_port /etc/squid/squid.conf
http_port 80

# squidclient -p 80 mgr:info
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: squid/3.5.20
Mime-Version: 1.0
[...]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • squid

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