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>6. Privoxy Configuration</A
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> All <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> configuration is stored
in text files. These files can be edited with a text editor.
Many important aspects of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> can
also be controlled easily with a web browser.
</P
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><A
NAME="CONTROL-WITH-WEBBROWSER"
>6.1. Controlling Privoxy with Your Web Browser</A
></H2
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> <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
>'s user interface can be reached through the special
URL <A
HREF="http://config.privoxy.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>http://config.privoxy.org/</A
>
(shortcut: <A
HREF="http://p.p/"
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>http://p.p/</A
>),
which is a built-in page and works without Internet access.
You will see the following section:</P
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> Privoxy Menu</H2
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> ▪ <A
HREF="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status"
TARGET="_top"
>View & change the current configuration</A
>
</TD
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><TR
><TD
> ▪ <A
HREF="http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags"
TARGET="_top"
>View or toggle the tags that can be set based on the client's address</A
>
</TD
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><TD
> ▪ <A
HREF="http://config.privoxy.org/show-request"
TARGET="_top"
>View the request headers.</A
>
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> ▪ <A
HREF="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info"
TARGET="_top"
>Look up which actions apply to a URL and why</A
>
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> ▪ <A
HREF="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle"
TARGET="_top"
>Toggle Privoxy on or off</A
>
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> This should be self-explanatory. Note the first item leads to an editor for the
<A
HREF="actions-file.html"
>actions files</A
>, which is where the ad, banner,
cookie, and URL blocking magic is configured as well as other advanced features of
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
>. This is an easy way to adjust various
aspects of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> configuration. The actions
file, and other configuration files, are explained in detail below.</P
><P
> <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Toggle Privoxy On or Off"</SPAN
> is handy for sites that might
have problems with your current actions and filters. You can in fact use
it as a test to see whether it is <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
>
causing the problem or not. <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> continues
to run as a proxy in this case, but all manipulation is disabled, i.e.
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> acts like a normal forwarding proxy.</P
><P
> Note that several of the features described above are disabled by default
in <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> 3.0.7 beta and later.
Check the
<A
HREF="config.html"
TARGET="_top"
>configuration file</A
> to learn why
and in which cases it's safe to enable them again.</P
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><A
NAME="CONFOVERVIEW"
>6.2. Configuration Files Overview</A
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><P
> For Unix, *BSD and GNU/Linux, all configuration files are located in
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/etc/privoxy/</TT
> by default. For MS Windows
these are all in the same directory as the
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> executable. </P
><P
> The installed defaults provide a reasonable starting point, though
some settings may be aggressive by some standards. For the time being, the
principle configuration files are:</P
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><LI
><P
> The <A
HREF="config.html"
>main configuration file</A
> is named <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>config</TT
>
on GNU/Linux, Unix, BSD, and <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>config.txt</TT
>
on Windows. This is a required file.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>match-all.action</TT
> is used to define which <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"actions"</SPAN
>
relating to banner-blocking, images, pop-ups, content modification, cookie handling
etc should be applied by default. It should be the first actions file loaded.
</P
><P
> <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>default.action</TT
> defines many exceptions (both positive and negative)
from the default set of actions that's configured in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>match-all.action</TT
>.
It should be the second actions file loaded and shouldn't be edited by the user.
</P
><P
> Multiple actions files may be defined in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>config</TT
>. These
are processed in the order they are defined. Local customizations and locally
preferred exceptions to the default policies as defined in
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>match-all.action</TT
> (which you will most probably want
to define sooner or later) are best applied in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>user.action</TT
>,
where you can preserve them across upgrades. The file isn't installed by all
installers, but you can easily create it yourself with a text editor.
</P
><P
> There is also a web based editor that can be accessed from
<A
HREF="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status"
TARGET="_top"
>http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</A
>
(Shortcut: <A
HREF="http://p.p/show-status"
TARGET="_top"
>http://p.p/show-status</A
>) for the
various actions files.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Filter files"</SPAN
> (the <A
HREF="filter-file.html"
>filter
file</A
>) can be used to re-write the raw page content, including
viewable text as well as embedded HTML and JavaScript, and whatever else
lurks on any given web page. The filtering jobs are only pre-defined here;
whether to apply them or not is up to the actions files.
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>default.filter</TT
> includes various filters made
available for use by the developers. Some are much more intrusive than
others, and all should be used with caution. You may define additional
filter files in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>config</TT
> as you can with
actions files. We suggest <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>user.filter</TT
> for any
locally defined filters or customizations.
</P
></LI
></UL
><P
> The syntax of the configuration and filter files may change between different
Privoxy versions, unfortunately some enhancements cost backwards compatibility.
</P
><P
> All files use the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>#</TT
>"</SPAN
> character to denote a
comment (the rest of the line will be ignored) and understand line continuation
through placing a backslash ("<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>\</TT
>") as the very last character
in a line. If the <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>#</TT
> is preceded by a backslash, it looses
its special function. Placing a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>#</TT
> in front of an otherwise
valid configuration line to prevent it from being interpreted is called "commenting
out" that line. Blank lines are ignored.</P
><P
> The actions files and filter files
can use Perl style <A
HREF="appendix.html#REGEX"
>regular expressions</A
> for
maximum flexibility.</P
><P
> After making any changes, there is no need to restart
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> in order for the changes to take
effect. <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
> detects such changes
automatically. Note, however, that it may take one or two additional
requests for the change to take effect. When changing the listening address
of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
>, these <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"wake up"</SPAN
> requests
must obviously be sent to the <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>old</I
></SPAN
> listening address.</P
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