Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Block mp3, mpg, mpeg, exe files using Squid proxy server

First open squid.conf file /etc/squid/squid.conf:

# vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

Now add following lines to your squid ACL section:

acl blockfiles urlpath_regex “/etc/squid/multimedia.files.acl”

Now create the the file

# vi /etc/squid/multimedia.files.acl

\.[Ee][Xx][Ee]$
\.[Aa][Vv][Ii]$
\.[Mm][Pp][Gg]$
\.[Mm][Pp][Ee][Gg]$
\.[Mm][Pp]3$

Save and close the file and Restart Squid:

# /etc/init.d/squid restart

1 comments:

smileface said...

great tutorial, thank you before.

I do same like you done and it work as well for *.exe files but we can still download *.mp3 files, could you help me about it?

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