Is there a way in policies to redirect google to that of our schools intranet homepage search engine (as this generates revenue for us).
What I want is when a pupil types in google it redirects to our search page (simple).
Is it easy to do?
Thanks
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Is there a way in policies to redirect google to that of our schools intranet homepage search engine (as this generates revenue for us).
What I want is when a pupil types in google it redirects to our search page (simple).
Is it easy to do?
Thanks
What are you using for your web proxy? This is very easy to achieve using squid and a little bit of perl scripting.
Iain.
Hi
Unfortunately we are using a 'cachebox' supplied by our Broadband consortium (CLEO)
Thanks
Generates revenue?Quote:
Originally Posted by KWestos
How?
What I would do in this situation would be to set the server with the search stuff on to respond with the search page to any url's you wish to point there then just put these on your dns server.
e.g. if I wanted to redirect www.google.com to our own search engine I would go onto the web server with the search app on it, and set it up to respond with our search page to any requests to the domain www.google.com then go into DNS and set www.google.com up as a record pointing to that server
Use a GPO to prevent www.google.com, etc. from using the proxy. Add records in your hosts files on the clients and job's a good un ;)
https://www.google.com/adsense/stati...sOverview.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by boomam
Using DNS is a bad idea. May cock up other things if your search doesnt work precisely like google.
Best way to do it is a rewrite rule on your proxy - CLEO lot should be able to do it.
My soultion is:
1) Setup a Googlish type search page at search.school.lea.sch.uk
2) have a wildcard DNS entry for your school.lea.sch.uk domain that redirects to search.school.lea.sch.uk
3) Use SquidGuard to search/replace url requests for popular search engines back to search.school.lea.sch.uk (allow searches when search.school.lea.sch.uk is the referer though!).
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
I thought it might be that, but is that even legal for a school to do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoff
Google didn't complain when we signed up. We've currently made $8. :)
lol.
I didnt mean google complaining, i mean from the perspective of the goverment, schools arnt aloud to make profit are they?
Or am i talking nonsense? :p.
can you even do that in windows dns server ?, i was under the impression you could only add records of hosts that use the fqdn of the school network, therefore only hosts that use the domain of the internal dns server e.g myschool.sch.uk so you can't have any record with a different domain name e.g google.comQuote:
Originally Posted by lonewolff
or maybe i've misunderstood what you're saying.
Yep, you can add a new forward lookup zone (so google.com) and then add an A record for www. or whatever you want. That is what I've done for our school site internally it just directs straight to our webserver's internal IP, but from external hosts it gets port forwarded from our firewall.Quote:
Originally Posted by torledo
That is against the rules for the google adsense program. You can't interfere with people's requests in any way. They have to use the site as presented to them - so stealing searches from other sites and posting them to your own google search is against the rules.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoff