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This article shows how to check if your SSL key and certificate match. Why would you do this? Suppose you’ve just purchased a certificate and in the process mixed up your files OR perhaps the files aren’t named in the way the documentation suggests they are. Let’s first see what
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I’ve written about wordpress plenty of times and this time is on how to secure a wordpress installation. Specifically, i have been responsible for a few sites that’ve recently been hacked. Essentially the “bad guys” found a way to upload some files onto the sites and then execute php scripts
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Tripwire is a great tool to monitor your server for changes. Skip past my rant to get into the guts of it. Otherwise, enjoy! We all use wordpress because it’s easy to install, there’s plenty of people out there to create themes and it’s so easy to work with. The
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Apache has plenty of access control features that can help prevent unauthorised access to key parts of your site. This article is about giving a 404 (access denied) response when someone tries to access specific files on your site. In the examples below, we’ll be restricting access to two PHP
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Developers love by Git (or any repo, really) but we sysadmins generally don’t care. If the web-server is running and the modules are available, we’re happy! But there are times when a developer asks that a web-server be provisioned with the necessary php modules and also a place for them
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Varnish makes a great load balancer with a very simple configuration process, tolerance features and exceptional caching performance. Things have changed between version 3 and 4 so this article gives an example of how to build a load balancer with Varnish 4. vcl 4.0; import std; import directors; #Specify the
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To have a website secured with SSL, the administrator needs to generate some files, send them off to an authority, get more files back and put them on the server where they are used to provide the security of SSL. Just FYI, we use TLS these days, not SSL. But
Read moreThis is how to resolve the CORS issue on an Apache server. The short of it is that a web page may require the browser to make Jquery calls to another server which rightfully rings alarm bells. Add the following to the Apache vhost on the target server – where
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This article explains how to send SSH commands (SSH, SCP, SFTP) to a remote server using php. In this example we have a working php56w installation with Apache. We’re using CentOS 7. SELinux is enabled. Download the libraries: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpseclib/files/phpseclib1.0.5.zip/download Unzip the files into a new library directory: # Go to
Read moreThis article explains how Varnish, Apache and NginX fit together and/or differ. Varnish is an excellent cache and speeds up web-sites significantly. Terminate the HTTP connection at Varnish on port 80 and point Varnish internally to an NginX server listening for HTTP on port 81 (they can’t both be on
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