Am Mon, 2003-08-25 um 22.39 schrieb SBlaze: > Currently I am using Apache and I have two sites vhosted on it. The only sort > thing I really use my windows box for is web browsing/multimedia that sort...it > has no services available to the world. So thats whats confusing me is that > everyone says use a proxy but I don't see how using a proxy can stop those > unwanted requests. I'm trying to stop certain requests from reaching my web > server which is my router/firewall/web/file server. So how is a proxy supposed > to help in this case? Everyone says it is but I just don't know much about > "proxying" or proxying soloutions for that matter Oh, that i might not remember your original post correctly. Lets see ... Well, yeah you are right, you never said you wanted to redirect but just reject. Ok, my fault. Then you could just put a proxy in between. Run your Apache on 8080 and run a reverse proxy like apache or squid on 80. But I doubt, that you would be happy with it, because it will eat up resources. Make a long thread short: There is no good way to do it on one machine. Since you are using Apache and not IIS, you will be fine. If the log messages annoy you, bad luck. This is just life if you don't filter the request first using a proxy. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf Spenneberg RHCE, RHCX Book: Intrusion Detection für Linux Server http://www.spenneberg.com IPsec-Howto http://www.ipsec-howto.org Honeynet Project Mirror: http://honeynet.spenneberg.org
