I want to block my user from using certain sites for this purpose i have added the acl blocksites url_regex [-i] /etc/squid/sites.txt ^http:// in the squid but it is not working.

Hi: I am also new to linux and learning it. here below is the steps you follow through which u can restrict specified sites on squid. BLOCKING Sites and getting it from a .TXT file ===================================== Create a .TXT file with a single site name for each line /usr/local/squid/etc/blocked.txt (give Read Permission) Define an ACL ============ define ACL blocked url_regex "/usr/local/squid/etc/blocked.txt" http blockages ============== http_access deny blocked (Place http_access deny blocked line above all other http_access lines) A Custom error ============== (A Custom error page can be set for above error as describe below) deny_info ERR_BLOCKED_SITE blocked (Put the file in HTML format named ERR_BLOCKED_SITE file in /etc/squid/error) =============== no need to restart squid just give 'squid -k reconfigure' it will be re-initialise your squid.conf i don't know JAVA very good else where i want to have a web-based html page through i can edit the /usr/local/squid/etc/blocked.txt and save it. if anyone can help me to get this done. Thanks in advance Patel

Use Webmin to configure squid www.webmin.com After you installed the package go to http:\\servername:10000