Squid proxy

Step 1: Install squid using following command.

[root@MailZim ~]# yum install squid

Step 2: Now configure the network of the windows machine in which you want to control the internet using this proxy as shown below.

Step 2.1: Open run command and type inetcpl.cpl

 

Step 2.2: In internet properties select connections tab and select Lan settings.

Step 2.3: Select use a proxy server for your LAN as shown below and type your proxy server ip address here it is 192.168.1.63 and default port is 3128.

Step 3: open Ip properties and remove the dns and gateway. As shown below,

Now check opening google on any of your browser, if it opens then proxy is working perfectly, else check the above steps properly.

Step 4: Add the following highlighted lines in the squid.conf file using following command.

[root@MailZim ~]# vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

Save and exit using Esc :wq

Step 5: Now create a new file using which you are going to block a group of websites, for which  the path is as said in the above highlighted lines, here it is

Step 6: Add the sites which you want to block as shown below, starting with . no www is needed, save and exit after edititing.

Step 7: Now reload the squid proxy service, using the following command,

Step 8: To block sites separately without using any file add the following lines in squid.conf file, as shown below,

acl google dstdomain .google.com

http_access deny google

Step 9 : reload the squid service.

 

 

DONE !!! blocked using proxy squid.