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<title>Junkbuster Frequently Asked Questions</title>
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<author>
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<sect2 id="installation"><title>Installation</title>
+
<sect3 id="newinstall"><title>Can I install the new
<application>Junkbuster</application> over the old one?</title>
<para>
</para>
<para>
See the user-manual for platform specific installation instructions.
- [FIXME: This is meant for after the name change!]
+ [FIXME: This is meant for after the name change for 3.0!]
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
-<title id="nothing">I just installed Junkbuster, and nothing is happening.
-All the ads are there. What's wrong?</title>
+<title id="firststep">I just installed Junkbuster. Is there anything
+special I have to do now?</title>
<para>
-
Did you configure your browser to use <application>Junkbuster</application>
- as a proxy? It does not sound like it. See below. You might also try flushing
- the browser's caches to force a full re-reading of pages.
+
All browsers must be told to use <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ as a proxy by specifying the correct proxy address and port number
+ in the appropriate configuration area for the browser. See below.
</para>
</sect3>
+
<sect3 id="localhost"><title>What is the proxy address of Junkbuster?</title>
<para>
If you set up the <application>Junkbuster</application> to run on
</para>
</sect3>
+<sect3>
+<title id="nothing">I just installed Junkbuster, and nothing is happening.
+All the ads are there. What's wrong?</title>
+
+<para>
+ Did you configure your browser to use <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ as a proxy? It does not sound like it. See above. You might also try flushing
+ the browser's caches to force a full re-reading of pages. You can verify
+ that <application>Junkbuster</application> is running, and your browser
+ is correctly configured by entering the special URL:
+ <ulink url="http://i.j.b/">http://i.j.b/</ulink>. This should give you
+ a banner that says <quote>This is the Internet JUNKBUSTER</quote> and
+ access to <application>Junkbuster's</application> internal configuration.
+ If you see this, then you are good to go. If not, the browser or
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> are not set up correctly.
+
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
</sect2>
<sect3 id="newconfig"><title>Can I use my old config files?</title>
<para>
- No. These will not work. You will need to re-enter your old
- data into the new configuration structure.
+ There are major changes to <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ configuration from version 2.0.x to 2.9.x and later. The older files will
+ not work at all. If this is the case, you will need to re-enter your old
+ data into the new configuration structure. This is probably also a good
+ recommendation even if upgrading from 2.9.x to 3.x since there were
+ many minor changes along the way.
</para>
</sect3>
+<sect3>
+<title id="actionsfile">What is an <quote>actions</quote> file?</title>
+
+<para>
+ <quote>actions</quote> files are where various actions that
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> might take, are configured.
+ Typically, you would define a set of default actions that apply
+ to all URLs, then add exceptions to these defaults.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Actions can be defined on a per site basis, or for groups of sites. Actions
+ can also be grouped together and then applied to one or more sites. There
+ are many possible actions that might apply to any given site. As an example,
+ if we are blocking cookies as one of our default
+ <application>actions</application>, but need to accept cookies from a given
+ site, we would define this in our <quote>actions</quote> file.
+
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> comes with several default
+ <application>actions</application> files, with varying degrees
+ of filtering and blocking, as starting points for your own
+ configuration (see below).
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+
+<sect3>
+<title id="actconfig">How are actions files configured? What is the easiest
+way to do this?</title>
+
+<para>
+ The easiest way to do this, is to access <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ with your web browser at <ulink url="http://i.j.b/">http://i.j.b/</ulink>,
+ and then select
+ "<ulink url="http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/edit-actions">Edit the actions list</ulink>"
+ from the selection list. You can also do this by editing the appropriate
+ file with a text editor.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Please see the user-manual for a detailed explanation of these and other
+ configuration files, and their various options and syntax.
+</para>
+</sect3>
+
+
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+<sect3>
+<title id="lanconfig">How can I set up Junkbuster to act as a proxy for my
+ LAN?</title>
+<para>
+ By default, <application>Junkbuster</application> only responds to requests
+ from localhost. To have it act as a server for a network, this needs to be
+ changed in the main config file where the <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ configuration is located. In that file is a <quote>listen-address</quote>
+ option. It may be commented out with a <quote>#</quote> symbol. Make sure
+ it is uncommented, and assign it the address of the LAN gateway interface,
+ and port number to use:
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <screen>
+ listen-address 192.168.1.1:8118
+ </screen>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Save the file, and restart <application>Junkbuster</application>. Configure
+ all browsers on the network then to use this address and port number.
+
+</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
</sect2>
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<para>
It would be easy enough to just eliminate this space altogether, rather than
fill it with blank space. But, this would create problems with many pages
- that use the overall size of the ad to help organize the page layout and
- hold the various components of the page where they were intended to be. It is
- best left this way.
+ that use the overall size of the ad to help organize the page layout and
+ position the various components of the page where they were intended to be.
+ It is best left this way.
</para>
from <quote>localhost</quote>. It is not itself directly exposed to the
Internet in this configuration. If you want to have
<application>Junkbuster</application> serve as a LAN proxy, this will have to
- be opened up to allow for external requests. In this case, we'd recommend
- that the port used by <application>Junkbuster</application> (default is
- 8118), be firewalled from outside (Internet) connections. Better safe than
- sorry.
+ be opened up to allow for LAN requests. In this case, we'd recommend
+ you specify only the LAN gateway address, e.g. 192.168.1.1 in the main
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> config file. All LAN hosts can then use
+ this as their proxy address in the browser proxy configuration. In this way,
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> will not listen on any external ports.
+ Of course, a firewall is always good too. Better safe than sorry.
</para>
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+Revision 1.16 2002/03/17 21:32:56 hal9
+A few more additions.
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Revision 1.15 2002/03/17 07:25:59 hal9
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