Changes

Dansguardian uses port 8080 for web proxy requests. If your browser does not use port 8080 then Dansguardian filtering will be bypassed. To force this usage & prevent users bypassing filtering you should do ALL the following steps:

Dansguardian uses port 8080 for web proxy requests. If your browser does not use port 8080 then Dansguardian filtering will be bypassed. To force this usage & prevent users bypassing filtering you should do ALL the following steps:

'''1) Configure your sme server to use Transparent Proxy port 8080 and to block direct access to the squid proxy port 3128 & redirect port 80 to port 8080'''

'''1) Configure your SME Server to use Transparent Proxy port 8080 and to block direct access to the squid proxy port 3128 & redirect port 80 to port 8080'''

Note the functionality to create the required custom firewall rules using iptables is built in to the smeserver-dansguardian and is configured with the following commands

Note the functionality to create the required custom firewall rules using iptables is built in to the smeserver-dansguardian and is configured with the following commands

  signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot  

  signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot  

{{Note box|Note that if you disable the Transparent Proxy feature of SME Server, the Internet will become accessible to local users. You should keep the Transparent Proxy enabled (but configured as above) for filtering to work.}}

{{Note box|If you disable the Transparent Proxy feature of SME Server, Dansguardian can be bypassed at will by your users. You should keep the Transparent Proxy enabled (but configured as above) for filtering to work.}}

   

   

'''2) Configure your workstation web browser to auto detect proxy port'''

'''2) Configure your workstation web browser to auto detect proxy port'''