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Chapter 5: Administration Site
142 Cobalt Qube 3 User Manual
3. Specify the CGI access settings.
• Do not allow access to any user. Only the Qube 3 Administrator is
allowed to run CGI scripts.
• Allow access to all users. All users are allowed to run CGI scripts.
• Allow access to specified users only. You can specify the users who are
allowed to run CGI scripts.
If you select this option, click on the user names to transfer between the
Users Allowed Access and Users Not Allowed Access windows. For
more information on using CGI scripts, see “CGI scripts” on page 44
and “Directory structure” on page 224.
4. Click Save.
Restricted Web access
As the Qube 3 Administrator, you can control Web sites accessed through the
Qube 3 server. You can restrict user access to specific Web sites only, block users
from accessing specific Web sites or apply no restrictions at all.
You can specify the sites by a host name and domain name or by IP address.
To configure the settings for the Restricted Access feature:
1. Select Administration > Web Services > Restricted Access. The Restricted
Web Access table appears; see Figure 66.
2. Choose a Restriction Policy from the pull-down menu:
• Permitted Access. If you choose the Permitted Access policy, users can
access only the Web sites specified in the following fields. They cannot
access any other sites.
• Blocked Access. If you choose the Blocked Access policy, users are
blocked from accessing the Web sites specified in the following fields.
• Unrestricted. If you choose the Blacklist policy, users can access all
Web sites on the Internet.
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Caution: Poorly written CGI scripts can cause performance
problems on the server.
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Note: This feature affects access to Web sites only. FTP and other
protocols are not affected by this feature.