Configuration
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Avira AntiVir WebGate
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Configuration
You can configure Avira AntiVir WebGate for optimum performance. The most
common settings are suggested in this Chapter. You can modify these settings
anytime, to adjust WebGate to your requirements.
You will be guided step by step through the configuration process:
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In
Monitoring HTTP Traffic
– Page 18 you can read about the different
possibilities for WebGate’s network setting.
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Monitoring FTP Traffic
– Page 23 is a description of integrating WebGate as
FTP proxy.
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Integration over ICAP Interface
– Page 24 presents the integration of WebGate
over ICAP interface.
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In
Configuration Files
– Page 26 we describe the parameter entries for Product,
Scanner, Updater and Access Control List.
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In
Templates Configuration
– Page 37 you find out how to customize various
notification web pages and emails generated by WebGate.
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Testing Avira AntiVir WebGate
– Page 38 describes how you can test the
performance of WebGate, after completing the configuration.
4.1
Monitoring HTTP Traffic
WebGate can scan the entire incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic for viruses and
unwanted programs. It can even scan the web-based FTP transfers (FTP over
HTTP). WebGate works with the existing proxy servers and supplements them, but
it can also be set as stand-alone HTTP proxy.
Depending on the network and configuration, there are more possibilities for
setting Avira AntiVir WebGate as "guard" between the Client computer and the
Internet. In all these cases, the user does not have direct connection to the
Internet, but through WebGate.
There are three different configurations:
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WebGate without Proxy Server (Network Configuration 0)
– Page 19
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WebGate between Client and Proxy Server (Network Configuration 1)
– Page 20
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WebGate between Proxy Server and Internet (Network Configuration 2)
–
Page 21
If you set ports under 1024 during configuration, you have to run WebGate as root.
