Hi, I've got squid up and running on my home server and I've successfully set up black and white lists of sites I want to block and allow. I'd also like to have an acl that uses a downloaded, updated, list. However, I can't seem to find a list that includes the leading '.' for each line which means that Squid doesn't block any of the sites in the list.

Here's the relevant portion of squid.conf:
acl adult url_regex -i "/etc/squid/shalla_adult.acl"
http_access deny adult

The file shalla_adult.acl is from the shalla list which a Cron job downloads and extracts. The problem is, each line looks like
website.com
instead of
.website.com

Any ideas how I can get round this?

Thanks.

Hi.

will add a '.' to the beginning of every line in the file.

Dave

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Brilliant, thank you Dave, I added that to my script and it worked like a charm. Unfortunately, Squid has taken a dislike to the acl file.

With the following in my squid.conf
I get the following message when trying to start Squid

If I comment out the shalla acl then it works and squid blocks the sites in blacklist.acl.
As soon as I uncomment the adult acl I get the above error.

I can't see any difference between the two files apart from their size. They both have the same permissions. I'm guessing I've done something stupid!

Thanks in advance.

Hi again.

I'm not an expert on squid, so I can't really comment on the error.

You mention that you added the sed line to your script, though. If that sed line is run on the file repeated times, it will keep adding '.' to the start of each line, so maybe that's why it's failing.

Dave

I don't think so, the script downloads the latest shalla list and over-writes the acl file with said list, then it runs the sed line so it's always running on a new file with no '.'s.