Installing SquidGuard

Hello. After installing Squid, SquidGuard might be useful, a “plugin” for Squid to control and redirect URLs processed by Squid, useful for blocking malicious and unwanted sites. Let’s proceed with the installation sudo apt-get install squidGuard and of course immediately after with the configuration sudo vi /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf where you need to add/modify these lines dbhome folders_path logdir /var/log/squid3 # DESTINATION CLASSES: dest ads { #location of blacklists, domains, urls, expressions. domainlist folder_name/ads/domains urllist folder_name/ads/urls expressionlist folder_name/ads/expressions } ...

April 30, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

[Raspberry Pi] Share folders with a Samba server

Hello. Let’s share a folder on Raspbian with a Samba server. Let’s install sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin and let’s configure it by changing the parameters in its configuration file sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf Uncomment workgroup = WORKGROUP wins support = yes where “WORKGROUP” should be replaced with your network’s workgroup and “wins support” is for Windows systems support (if you’re not interested, you can leave it unchanged), ...

April 26, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

[Raspberry Pi] Mount NTFS hard drive

Hello. On a Raspberry used as a NAS, it’s essential to have an external hard drive (or a large enough USB drive), and usually these are formatted in NTFS, the file system used by Windows. To mount it, we need to install “NTFS-3G” sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g once done, we look for the UUID of the hard drive sudo blkid Once you’ve found the UUID corresponding to the partition of interest, edit the /etc/fstab file ...

April 26, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

How to configure blacklist for Squid

Hello. Have you configured Squid ( how to do it) and now want to add a blacklist? Very simple. Create a text file containing the addresses of the sites you want to block and add in the Squid configuration file (/etc/squid/squid.conf) acl urlblock dstdom_regex “full_path_to_file” http_access deny urlblock where “full_path_to_file” means the path+name of the file you just created. Warning: http_access deny urlblock must be inserted before the “allow” statements. ...

April 26, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

Install Squid (with web cache)

Hello. Let’s see how to install a proxy server like Squid with web cache. Installation apt-get install squid Simple, right? All the configuration is missing, the file of which we can find in /etc/squid/squid.conf sudo vi /etc/squid/squid.conf First of all, we need to enable our network, so under the string acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network we insert the acl called “mynetwork” with the static IP address of the computer from which we want to use the server: ...

April 19, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

[Raspberry Pi] Install Chromium

Hello. Want a browser different from the one on Raspbian and more specifically Chrome? Well, Chrome isn’t available but there’s Chromium, which is an open source web browser from which Chrome is derived. To install it sudo apt-get install chromium Bye! ! :) !

April 19, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

[Raspberry Pi] Installation of No-IP

Hello. To install No-IP, download the package from the official website, extract the content, compile, and install it sudo make sudo make install During the installation, you will be asked which network card to use (in case of a Wi-Fi card as well), to enter the email address and password of your account, and for which host you want to update the IP address. To start it sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2 ...

April 19, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

[Raspberry Pi] Install LogMeIn Hamachi

Hello. If you’re looking for a guide on Hamachi, you already know what it is. Before installing it, update the system sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade install “ lsb-core”: sudo apt-get install lsb-core In the meantime, download the client from the official website, ARM HF version naturally .deb. Once all this is done, from the terminal go to the folder where you downloaded the package and install it: ...

April 19, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

[Raspberry Pi] Force 1080p resolution

Hello. As you’ve surely noticed, when connecting the Raspberry to a FullHD monitor, the resolution isn’t 1920x1080, and it’s not possible to select it. To force this resolution, go to: sudo nano /boot/config.txt look for all disable_overscan=0 and change the value to 1 (from 0 to 1). Finally, at the end of the file, comment out the following lines (comment with #): overscan_left=24 overscan_right=24 overscan_top=16 overscan_bottom=16 Restart the Raspberry. ...

April 19, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo

[Raspberry Pi] Remove unnecessary software

Hello. You’ve surely noticed that on Raspbian there is software that may be useless for us. To uninstall this software you can use the command: apt-get purge –auto-remove software_to_delete I deleted these: sudo apt-get purge scratch sudo apt-get purge debian-reference-en dillo idle3 python3-tk idle python-pygame python-tk sudo apt-get purge minecraft-pi sudo apt-get purge sonic-pi Finally a nice: apt-get autoremove Bye! ! :) ! Source: http://www.stefan-seelmann.de/wiki/rasperrypi-homeserver

April 19, 2015 · Ugo Palumbo