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13Jun/103

Installing HAVP (HTTP Antivirus Proxy)

HAVP (HTTP Antivirus Proxy) is a proxy with a ClamAV anti-virus scanner. The main aims are continuous, non-blocking downloads and smooth scanning of dynamic and password protected HTTP traffic. Havp antivirus proxy has a parent and transparent proxy mode. It can be used with squid or standalone.

1. Install HAVP

apt-get install havp

30Mar/100

Installing nginx from source with mail support

nginxnginx is a lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (SMTP/IMAP/POP3) proxy.

1. Install required packages

apt-get install build-essential autotools-dev debhelper libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev

25Dec/090

Installing and configuring Squid proxy server

Squid is a caching proxy supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

1. Install the Squid package

apt-get install squid

21Dec/090

Simple load balancing using Pound

The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.

1. Install the pound package

apt-get install pound