Url Blocking; Configuring Fortigate Web Url Blocking - Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-800 Installation And Configuration Manual

Web filtering

URL blocking

Configuring FortiGate Web URL blocking

FortiGate-800 Installation and Configuration Guide
5 Select Return to display the updated Banned Word List.
6 You can continue to maintain the Banned Word List by making changes to the text file
and uploading it again as necessary.
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Note: Banned Word must be selected in the content profile for web pages containing banned
words to be blocked.
You can block the unwanted web URLs using FortiGate Web URL blocking, FortiGate
Web pattern blocking, and Cerberian web filtering.
• Configuring FortiGate Web URL blocking
• Configuring FortiGate Web pattern blocking
• Configuring Cerberian URL filtering
You can configure FortiGate Web URL blocking to block all pages on a website by
adding the top-level URL or IP address. You can also block individual pages on a
website by including the full path and filename of the web page to block.
• Adding URLs to the Web URL block list
• Clearing the Web URL block list
• Downloading the Web URL block list
• Uploading a URL block list
Adding URLs to the Web URL block list
1 Go to Web Filter > Web URL Block.
2 Select New to add a URL to the Web URL block list.
3 Type the URL the you want to block.
Type a top-level URL or IP address to block access to all pages on a website. For
example, www.badsite.com or 122.133.144.155 blocks access to all pages at
this website.
Type a top-level URL followed by the path and filename to block access to a single
page on a website. For example, www.badsite.com/news.html or
122.133.144.155/news.html blocks the news page on this website.
To block all pages with a URL that ends with badsite.com, add badsite.com to
the block list. For example, adding badsite.com blocks access to
www.badsite.com, mail.badsite.com, www.finance.badsite.com, and so
on.
Note: Do not include http:// in the URL that you want to block.
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