Configuring URL rating overrides
You can override and assign a different rating category to URLs. This can be useful if, for example:
- A shared web server hosts multiple different apps, and one of the URLs must be filtered differently.
- A FortiGuard URL rating is temporarily incorrect and you want to create an exemption.
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You usually don't need to create a custom category for exemptions. You can use the predefined category instead. For example, to exempt a URL from features such as:
you could create an override where you set Group to Local and Category to local-exempt. |
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Go to Security > URL Filter > Override Rating.
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Click New.
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Configure the following:
GUI item
Description Status Enable or disable the override. Enter a pattern that matches only the URLs that you want to override.
Syntax varies by Pattern type.
Select the type of URL pattern, either:
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Wildcard — Simple wild cards (
?or*) if you need to match multiple characters. See Special characters with regular expressions and wildcards. -
Regular Expression — Flexible and full-featured pattern matching. See Syntax.
Tip: To test that a regular expression matches as expected (and does not accidentally match other text), click Validate.
Comment Optional. Enter a description or comment. Override To
Select which group of categories to filter the list in Category, either:
- a predefined category group from FortiGuard, such as Bandwidth Consuming
- Local or Remote (depending on the custom category's Source)
Select which category to assign to the URLs that match URL pattern, either:
- a predefined category from FortiGuard, such as Streaming Media and Download
- a predefined category from the firmware, such as local or local-exempt
- a custom category (see Configuring custom URL rating categories)
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Click Create.
The override is applied to features that use URL filter profiles. See also Configuring URL filter profiles.