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Re: Apache WWW server - A good firewall? - how hard to set up?

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From: Anthony Forma
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:00

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In article <3593BDD5.7B56186B@gds.ca>,
Daryle Niedermayer  <dniederm@gds.ca> wrote:
>
>Hmmm. Apache is just a web server isn't it? If you mean using the linux as
>a firewall and running apache as well, that's possible. Conventional
[snip]
>
>Paul Robertson wrote:
>
>> Our office has a NT4 server and a network of 25 pc's. We use MS Proxy
>> Server to allow internet access but for the moment we are not allowing
[snip]
>> whether we could run Apache as a firewall on a separate server under
>> Linux..

If you mean you want to use Apache as a http proxy on a Linux firewall
machine, then yes.  Apache with mod_proxy compiled in makes a great http
proxy.

	Anthony

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From: forma@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Anthony Forma)
Subject: Re: Apache WWW server - A good firewall? - how hard to set up?
Date: 1998/06/26
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