How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10

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New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the Apache [...]

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How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny

Posted by suvi under Apache, Server, Ubuntu, Webserver

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny
This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2
on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over
HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for iSecure Sockets Layer/i and
is a cryptographic [...]

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The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 9.10 [ISPConfig 3]

Posted by suvi under Apache, Ubuntu, Webserver

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 9.10 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install
ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you
to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web
server, Postfix [...]

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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Mandriva 2009.1

Posted by suvi under Apache, Mandriva, PHP, Webserver

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Mandriva 2009.1
This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid
and PHP5 on Mandriva 2009.1. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to
the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the
permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
Link to [...]

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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1

Posted by suvi under Apache, Mandriva, MySQL, PHP, Webserver

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1
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pLighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a [...]

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How To Log Emails Sent With PHP’s mail() Function To Detect Form Spam

Posted by suvi under Apache, Debian, Email, PHP, Security, Server

If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem
already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS
system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails
trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain
to detect which of the sites is vulnerable [...]

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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 (LAMP)

Posted by suvi under Apache, Database, MySQL, PHP, Server, Ubuntu, Webserver

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address [...]

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How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny])

Posted by suvi under Apache, Debian, Security, Webserver

mod_qos gives some fine-grained opportunities to scale the number of
used connections and to defend an attack according to bandwidth limits.
Unfortunately it is only available as source-package and there are many
possible settings, wich might be hard to setup for this special case.
So I provide the way that helped me.
Read more at HowtoForge

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Five ways to help secure Apache on Linux

Posted by suvi under Apache, Linux, Security, Server, Webserver

Apache is one of the most popular web servers available. And most Apache installations are running on Linux servers. Anyone running Linux will tell you that the operating system (be it on a server or desktop) enjoys a level of security many operating systems do not enjoy. But does that mean you can just install [...]

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WebDAV With Apache2 On Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

Posted by suvi under Apache, Debian, Server, Webserver

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows users to edit and manage files collaboratively on remote World Wide Web servers.
Installing WebDAV in debian
First install apache using the following command
#aptitude install apache2
Read more at DebianAdmin

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How To Set Up Mass Virtualhosting With Apache2 + mod_rewrite + mod_userdir + mod_suexec On CentOS 5.3

Posted by suvi under Apache, CentOS

This howto shows one method of doing mass virtualhosting using
mod_rewrite to dynamically map a list of directories on your filesystem
to virtual hosts. Additionally, by rewriting the incoming URL to the
user’s home directory we can make use of suEXEC to have Apache execute
CGI scripts as the owner of the script.
Read more at HowtoForge

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Basic Web Server On Ubuntu 9.04 With Zend Framework

Posted by suvi under Apache, PHP, Ubuntu

This is a brief description of the steps required to set up a basic Web Server with the Zend Framework installed.
As always I will be following one of Falko’s Excellent guides as there is no point in re-inventing the wheel, so to speak. I will follow The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 9.04 [ISPConfig 3]. However [...]

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Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-itk On Ubuntu 9.04

Posted by suvi under Apache, Ubuntu

This article explains how you can install and configure apache2-mpm-itk
on an Ubuntu 9.04 server. apache2-mpm-itk is an MPM (Multi-Processing
Module) for the Apache 2 web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of
your vhost under a separate UID and GID – in short, the scripts and
configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable [...]

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How to protect Apache against DOS,DDOS or brute force attacks

Posted by suvi under Apache, Security, Server

If you want to protect your apache webserver against DOS,DDOS or brute force attacks use mod_evasive module.mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack. It is also designed to be a detection and network management tool, and [...]

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How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Debian Lenny)

Posted by suvi under Apache, Debian, MySQL

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication
(using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Lenny server. WebDAV
stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and
is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be
downloaded/uploaded via FTP. [...]

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