Mayn Idea SquidGuard Help Center
squidGuard is an open-source Web filtering solution. It is meant to be used with
the Squid proxy server program.
Here is the official squidGuard site
squidGuard now competes with several commercial or semi-commercial Web filtering solutions. I like squidGuard best because:
- It integrates well with the squid proxy server, without requiring a cache hierarchy.
- It is entirely open-source.
- Site-blocking databases are (at this time) available free of charge from various sites
However, squidGuard is difficult to configure correctly. This is mainly due to the following problems:
- The documentation at the official site is out of date
- The program does not write to the system log, only to its own logfiles
- If the logfiles are not already created and set with the right permissions, the program cannot report any errors.
- If squidGuard encounters any errors during its operation, it completely stops filtering.
I've created the following resources to try to help users to get squidGuard working:
The discussion groups are to supplement the main
squidguard mailing list. The main mailing list has answers to many
questions, and there is an easy way to search its archives, which are kept
here
(the AIMSGROUP mailing list archive.) However, since I occasionally receive
questions about squidGuard or about this site, I thought it would be worth a try
to see if a
new discussion group would be useful. That way, everyone can see the
questions and answers, as well as contribute to them. Let me know what you
think! (You can also subscribe to the discussion group via
RSS.)
(I don't intend to subscribe to the main mailing list, as I would rather not
deal with the email traffic.)