1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
5 File : doc/webserver/config/index.php
7 Purpose : Warn user of incorrect configuration.
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12 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
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38 <title>Privoxy is not being used</title>
39 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../p_web.css">
40 <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
41 <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
46 <h1><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</a> is not being used</h1>
48 <p>The fact that you are reading this page shows that Privoxy was
49 not used in the process of accessing it. Had the request been
50 made through Privoxy, it would have been intercepted and you
51 would be looking at Privoxy's web-based user interface now.</p>
53 <p><b>So what went wrong?</b> Chances are (in this order) that:</p>
56 <li><p>this page is in your browser's cache. You've once been here
57 before starting to use Privoxy, and now your browser thinks that
58 it already knows the content of this page. Hence it doesn't request
60 <p>Force your browser to do that. With most browsers, clicking "reload"
61 while holding down the shift key (shift-reloading) should suffice, but
62 you might need to manually clear the browser's cache (both memory and
65 <li><p>your browser is not set up to use Privoxy.</p>
66 <p> Check your browser's proxy settings and make sure that it uses
67 127.0.0.1, port 8118 (or, if you did a custom configuration, whatever
68 different values you used).</p></li>
70 <li><p>when using multiple proxies in a chain, that either the chain
71 is broken at some point before Privoxy, or that an earlier proxy
72 serves this page from its cache.</p>
73 <p>Shift-reload, clear all caches, and if the problem still persists,
74 trace the proxy chain starting with your browser's settings. Please
76 <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING">forwarding
77 chapter</a> of the <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/">user
78 manual</a> for details.</p></li>
81 <p>If you have read the <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/">user
82 manual</a> and still have trouble, feel free to <a
83 href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html">contact us to get help</a>.</p>