Squid Proxy Authentication fails

Question

I followed this tutorial to setup my proxy server. Installed Squid and apache2-utils

Created username and password using htpasswd

sudo htpasswd /etc/squid3/squid_passwd myusername

Appended the folowing lines to squid.conf

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid3/ncsa_auth /etc/squid3/squid_passwd
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
auth_param basic casesensitive off
acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED
http_access allow ncsa_users

restarted squid server. And checked username and password in cmd. It says Ok

/usr/lib/squid3/ncsa_auth /et/squid3/squid_passwd
myusername password
OK

But i am not able to access from PHP

$proxy = "111.11.11.11:8220"; // my squid ip and port
$proxyauth =   base64_encode('username:pass');   // Tried without base64_encode also  
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD,  $proxyauth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
$curl_scraped_page = curl_exec($ch);
echo $curl_scraped_page;
if(curl_error($ch))
{
    echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);

}
curl_close($ch);

But i am getting X-Squid-Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED error

Answer 1

You were using the wrong authentication library to access the password file

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid3/ncsa_auth /etc/squid3/squid_passwd

should have been

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid3/basic_ncsa_auth /etc/squid3/squid_passwd