This post specific to Debian based linux
3 main steps:
1. Add website entries in the /etc/hosts file
2. Setup a webserver in local machine
3. Create files to serve using web server.
#Local Machine
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
add your new entries (websites to be blocked) at the bottom of the file like
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
127.0.0.1 yahoo.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
...
...
save and exit.
Any webserver can be used for the very purpose which ranges apache, Thin, twiggy, yaws, wbox, webfs, mini-httpd, lighttpd etc., As we are going to serve only one static webpage, It would be better if we use a very minimal, low foot print server.
I found micro-httpd a optimum one for the purpose. Now, do the following steps in terminal.
#touch /etc/inetd.conf
#sudo apt-get install micro-httpd inetutils-inetd
By default the service directory for the micro-httpd server is "/var/www". But, if you want to change it, you can do so in the file "/etc/inetd.conf".
Content of a sample warning page.
<html>
<head> <title> Warning page! </title> </head>
<body bgcolor="black">
<div align="center" style="color: red; margin-top: 25%;">
<b><h2>
Very Sorry!The website you are trying to acces is blocked </h2>
</b> </div>
</body>
</html>
copy paste the above content in a file and save it with the name "index.html" under "/var/www/" directory. Now, reboot your machine then try to access the blocked websites via browser. Now, you can access all the websites for blocked one your browser will show the warning page.
3 main steps:
1. Add website entries in the /etc/hosts file
2. Setup a webserver in local machine
3. Create files to serve using web server.
1. Add website entries in /etc/hosts file
Open /etc/hosts file in an editor (as a super user, for normal users the file will open only in readonly mode.). The typical content of the file will looks like#Local Machine
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
add your new entries (websites to be blocked) at the bottom of the file like
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
127.0.0.1 yahoo.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
...
...
save and exit.
2. Setup a webserver in local machine.
Any webserver can be used for the very purpose which ranges apache, Thin, twiggy, yaws, wbox, webfs, mini-httpd, lighttpd etc., As we are going to serve only one static webpage, It would be better if we use a very minimal, low foot print server.
I found micro-httpd a optimum one for the purpose. Now, do the following steps in terminal.
#touch /etc/inetd.conf
#sudo apt-get install micro-httpd inetutils-inetd
By default the service directory for the micro-httpd server is "/var/www". But, if you want to change it, you can do so in the file "/etc/inetd.conf".
3. Create files to serve using web-server
Content of a sample warning page.
<html>
<head> <title> Warning page! </title> </head>
<body bgcolor="black">
<div align="center" style="color: red; margin-top: 25%;">
<b><h2>
Very Sorry!The website you are trying to acces is blocked </h2>
</b> </div>
</body>
</html>
copy paste the above content in a file and save it with the name "index.html" under "/var/www/" directory. Now, reboot your machine then try to access the blocked websites via browser. Now, you can access all the websites for blocked one your browser will show the warning page.
