Squid

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 } ...

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. ...

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: ...