Good evening all,

I have complete the setup of a proxy sever (squid) and also the squidguard.

At the end of the .cfg file of squidguard is the redirect oprion
redirect http://www.foo.bar/defaultblocked.html (thats the default one).

Is it possible to use another page in my squid (lets say in http://localhost/etc/squid/index.html) without having to launch an apache?

Thanks in advance.

Yes you can redirect to any address you like, it can be a legitament address, or a non-existent one also know as a blackhole. But definitely do not provide access to the filesystem by using etc/squid/index.html

What do you mean by launch apache, you mean need to run an apache server? if so, then no you don't have to run a web server to be able to redirect pages.

Yea, my point was that. I dont want to run a web server. The strange thing is that the .html page is in squid dir, but no matter what i did, cannot be displayed.

No matter what i did, the redirection on squid is not working. If i remove the redirect link from squidguard, the blobk is not working. (thats on the manual of guard.)
ill post below the conf of squidguard in case that someone can see whats wrong with it.


# CONFIG FILE FOR SQUIDGUARD
dbhome /usr/share/squidGuard-1.3/db
logdir /var/log/squidGuard
# TIME RULES:
# abbrev for weekdays:
# s = sun, m = mon, t =tue, w = wed, h = thu, f = fri, a = sat
time workhours {
weekly mtwhfas 08:00 - 23:59
date *-*-01 08:00 - 23:59
}
# Allow The Permited Sites

# dest white {
# domainlist white/domains
# urllist white/urls

# BLOCKING PORN SITES

dest porn {
domainlist porn/domains
urllist porn/urls
}

# And redirect to the DEFAULT WARNING PAGE

acl {
default {
pass !porn all
redirect http://localhost/etc/squid/index.html
}
}


The problem seems to be the "http://localhost" because im not running any other service except squid and squidguard.
Is there any other way to display the "index.html" ?
Just for the info, the index.html just informs the user that the porn content is blocked.


Thanks in Advance

Sorry I haven't been able to reply to you previous post, I'll post my squid.conf, I know this works and it points to squidguard. You can use this one then adjust to suit your own needs.


Squid.conf needs to have things in the right order otherwise you can run into all sorts of connections issues, the log file and cache locations are set to the default locations, you may need to adjust to what you distro uses.

I didnt post my squid.conf because contains all the coments from the original conf and is quite bug.

My knowledhe is not that big in this part, but as far as i understand the problem seems to be in http://localhost/etc/squid/index.html
which is in squidguard.conf.
When trying to reach the a blocked porn site, i cant see the web page (so far so good), but i cant see either the web page that informs the users about the blocked content (thats the index.html).

The error i got on browser is the following.
========
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://localhost/etc/squid/index.html

The following error was encountered:

* Connection to 127.0.0.1 Failed

The system returned:

(111) Connection refused

The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
=========

It seems that the access to this page cannot be done.
Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance

Are you saying that you want to display "index.html", a web page; which lives somewhere on "http://localhost", your firewall; to a protected host; w/o running Apache, a webserver? I don't think so, not unless you run a different webserver.