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Setting up Squid

Setting up Squid

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Setting up Squid

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- [Instructor] Let's install Squid and block a website. Type sudo apt-get install squid. Press Enter. Type Y. And press Enter. To specify which site to block, we need to edit the configuration file. Type cd /etc/squid/. Press Enter. Type ls and squid.conf is the configuration file. Now type sudo nano squid.conf. Press Enter. Press Control and W together to do a search. Type url_regex. Press Enter. Let's add our rule here. Type acl space banned, B-A-N-N-E-D, space, url_regex. Here regex stands for regular expression used to specify search patterns. Our search pattern is a portion of a URL. We use the label banned to name this rule. We'll be using a file to store the banned URLs. Therefore, we need to specify where the file is. Type a double quotation mark. /etc/squid/ and then the name of the file, blocked. And close the double quotation mark. Now find a line that says insert your own…

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