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Special Forums Cybersecurity Proxies (Best?) Post 88405 by deckard on Thursday 3rd of November 2005 04:45:25 PM

11-03-2005

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Proxies (Best?)

I hope this is the right place to post this. If not, would an administrator please move it? Thanks.

I've got a situation where we are using iPlanet proxy server to allow some of our web browsers to ONLY go to certain sites on an "approved" list. If they try to go to sites that aren't on the list, they get a message stating that they are at a limited workstation. This would be great overall if the iPlanet proxy (running on Win2K) wasn't so flakey. The performance seems poor because our clients complain about pages not loading completely or at all at times. I've been looking at Freshmeat.net for a decent open source/free software replacement. But there are quite a few proxies and they all seem to have different focuses.

What I need is just an HTTP proxy that will allow me to maintain a list of approved sites. Ideally, it should have a web interface for managing the approved sites since I'm not really the maintainer, a non-technical person is. And finally, the list should work with regular expressions so that wildcards can be used to allow people access to subparts of the approved sites. If possible, we really DON'T want stuff caching on disk because we can't afford to be legally viewed as a "content provider". Since the definition of that is pretty nebulous it makes the non-caching feature pretty important. Anyone know of anything like that?

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A2ENSITE(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  A2ENSITE(8)

NAME

       a2ensite, a2dissite - enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host

SYNOPSIS

       a2ensite [ [-q|--quiet] site]

       a2dissite [ [-q|--quiet] site]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the a2ensite and a2dissite commands.

       a2ensite is a script that enables the specified site (which contains a <VirtualHost> block) within the apache2 configuration.  It does this
       by creating symlinks within /etc/apache2/sites-enabled.  Likewise, a2dissite disables a site by removing those  symlinks.   It  is  not  an
       error to enable a site which is already enabled, or to disable one which is already disabled.

       Apache  treats  the very first virtual host enabled specially as every request not matching any actual directive is being redirected there.
       Thus it should be called 000-default in order to sort before the remaining hosts to be loaded first.

OPTIONS

       -q, --quiet
              Don't show informative messages.

       -m, --maintmode
              Enables the maintainer mode, that is the program invocation is effectuated automatically by a maintainer script. This switch  should
              not be used by end users.

       -p, --purge
              When disabling a module, purge all traces of the module in the internal state data base.

EXIT STATUS

       a2ensite and a2dissite exit with status 0 if all sites are processed successfully, 1 if errors occur, 2 if an invalid option was used.

EXAMPLES

              a2dissite 000-default

       Disables the default site.

FILES

       /etc/apache2/sites-available
              Directory with files giving information on available sites.

       /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
              Directory with links to the files in sites-available for enabled sites.

SEE ALSO

       apache2ctl(8).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org> (based on the a2enmod manual page by Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>) for
       the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.

                                                                    8 June 2007                                                        A2ENSITE(8)