I tried adding /ACLs in a similar way, as this is where I like to keep my acl text lists away from the squid.config file, but it did not appear to work, any idea why. Squid reports that it can't find the specified file which I'd (now) expect! What is the point of a fully qualified address if it's ignored?
I'm not quite understanding you, Adrian. What did you try to do? Where did you add /ACLs? I need a little more clarity and information.
That's right, mock the afflicted! :-) I usually keep my text files containing the acl data in a folder called 'ACLs' in the root folder, so in my squid confign I would have the line... acl ICT arp "/ACLs/ICT.txt" acl BadExtn url_regex -i "/ACLs/BadExtn.txt" etc. Pointing to the list of ICT department computer MAC addresses etc. This worked fine before, but does not work now! as Squid says it can't find the files! So I have edited my squid.config and placed the ACL lists in the same folder as squid.config (I generate all of the ACL lists and the squid.config from a database that allows me to group computers and apply times, baned lists, allowed lists etc.). I keep the files seperate because I like to keep things tidy. Adrian