…repo: Find the latest epel-release at http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm On Amazon Linux, epel-release is already loaded. Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo to enabled=1 Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo to only include necessary software packages: includepkgs=phpMyAdmin… (Search hits: 9 in body, 2 in title, 0 in categories, 1 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 587.53)
…do not have a solid security and load balancing strategy are subject to crippling traffic from the Internet’s millions of malicious and compromised servers and personal computers. Reconfigured Apache web… (Search hits: 8 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 4 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 555.48)
…on your machine. Why? Because then you do not need apache’s mod_php (php module). Less modules loaded, less wasted memory. Comment out: LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf Remove any php_memory_limit… (Search hits: 10 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 1 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 459.34)
…a clean install of Virtualmin with Nginx as the Alternative Web Server. Switching from Apache to Nginx later is difficult, as is transferring apache virtual server backups. Best to start… (Search hits: 9 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 384.57)
…AWS and some VPS may not play well with CSF), you may use Fail2Ban. Tune Apache the Sane Way (Requires Basic Math Skills) If you wish to tune your Apache… (Search hits: 7 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 384.56)
…a security group for a cohort of replicated database servers to only allow traffic from within the virtual cloud. Likewise, one could create a cloud group with public facing, load-balanced… (Search hits: 6 in body, 1 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 341.84)
…load_template (registers and loads the custom feed template) RSS feed with inline images (open in Firefox to see XML & XSL) Custom WordPress RSS feed template, followed by the functions call to… (Search hits: 8 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 341.84)
VacantServer WordPress sites are getting hammered with bad logins and probes. We’ve implemented a plugin to log failed login attempts to syslog, and a Fail2Ban filter for the same. If you run these on RedHat, you’ll need some additional configuration info… here it is: WordPress login failure regex (error_log): ^%(__prefix_line)sAuthentication failure for .* from <HOST>$ […]
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