Saturday 28 July 2012

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

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