I have been searching for a way to block someone from accessing my Appache webserver through a proxy. I have a large forum base that I want to prevent banned users from making new accounts or viewing them. Since banning IPs is worthless with proxy servers accessing my server I would think there is a way.


I have Mandrake 9.2 Apache 2.0 with php mysql. Could anyone point me to a guide or help me with blocking proxy servers?

Thanks.

Perhaps use the apache module proxyblock for this.

here is the link into the apache site where proxyblock is explained:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...tml#proxyblock

Im a big noob to linux computers. I have little work with them. If you could please make me an example for the httpd.conf file for blocking proxy would be great. What I have tried, the server failes to start.

In you're httpd.conf do the following:

Search for this in you're httpd.conf:

#LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so

by default it is shown as shown above. change it into:

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so


Then in you're VirtualHost block:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot c:/webserver/www.domain.com
ServerName www.domain.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log
ProxyBlock puntjuhdomain.com
</VirtualHost>

Make it look like above.

this will block all proxy's with puntjuhdomain.com .. if you wanna block more domains just add a space and type the next domain. If you wanna ban all proxy's just do this:

ProxyBlock *


good luck