Re: [squid-users] Creating a web admin site, suggestions?

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Jeff Pang wrote:

> 2007/7/9, Elijah Alcantara <elijah.alcantara@gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> I was thinking of saving these rules to the database then if the user
>> clicks on the apply button at the frontend the squid proxy will fetch
>> all these rules from a text/config file that the system created from
>> the database.

you could read the config file itself into a BIG text box where you can
modify whatever, and then when pressed "save" button will write the data
of the text box back to the config file. just a suggestion. DONOT forget
to make backup of config file before the webpage writes back the data.

>>
>
> The only thing I can think is that you may run webserver with root
> since you need to modify squid.conf and execute 'squid -k reconfigure'

You should not run apache as root effective user. just set permission on
squid.conf to be writeable by effective user of webserver and setuid on
squid binary and use a wrapper to run squid reconfigure. that should do.

> command.btw,parsing and redefining squid.conf by php is not easy,is
> it?Maybe perl is better choice.
>
> good luck.
>

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