Re: [squid-users] New to List needing squid.conf help!

Example ACL:
=============================
   acl blocked_content url_regex -i "/home/me/blocked_sites.txt"
   http_access deny blocked_content download all
   http_access deny blocked_content all
   http_reply_access deny blocked_content all
=============================

Contents of plain text file "blocked_sites.txt"
=============================
   .adultfriendfinder.com
   gamblingboard.com
   .gain.com
   porn
   sex
   teens
   xxx
   babes
   .wikipedia.org
=============================

Works at treat.
D.Radel.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Phalen" <squid@sphalen.com>
To: "Mark T. C." <mark@muddtanks.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] New to List needing squid.conf help!

> Mark T. C. wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been using Linux (RH 5.2) for years and it does what I need it to
>>do just fine. I've had it running squid and simple X-window telnet,
>>perl, expect, apache, etc... just for fooling around and learning. Now
>>that I have teenage boys, and the internet - well, Squid and webalizer
>>are really coming in handy. I am having some problems getting simple
>>ACLs to work. I can make them work in this fashion...
>>
>>acl ACLX url_regex -i sex
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>http_access deny ACLX
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>
>>But then I have to create billions of lists like the pair above
>>ad-Infinitum. There must be a better way... so, I see in the help in
>>squid.conf the following...
>>
>>acl aclname acltype "file" ...
>>
>>where acltype can be url_pattern (or url_regex ???) and the file says
>>it must contain one entry per line, which I can only assume must be a
>>regular expresion pattern such as .*sex.*???
>>
>>But... when I use...
>>
>>acl BANLIST url_regex (or url_pattern) ban-list
>>http_access deny BANLIST
>>... and place the file ban-list with a bazillion lines of nasty word
>>patterns in it, nothing gets banned, not even http://www.sex.com...
>>sigh.
>>
>>Is there anywhere where anyone has actually written a step-wise manual
>>that really, in english, with procedure - explains how to configure
>>these things. I do not mean a syntax manual... I mean a method and
>>purpose example and method that does a job, specifically and
>>purposefully. I write this sort of documentation all day long at my
>>work. ANYONE - with our with out in depth experience can pick up one
>>of my docs and perform the task - in this case how to add a phrase or
>>site to an ACL in squid.conf to ban a specific http access... see what
>>I mean.
>>
>>Thanks in advance (how's that for an introduction)... I have many more
>>to come...
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Have you looked at http://dansguardian.org? Possibly SquidGuard?
> Would make what you are doing MUCH easier.
>
> Scott
Received on Sun Jan 01 2006 - 22:41:03 MST