Some time ago I introduced a paper dealing with a secure configuration of the Apache web server. Today, it’s a bit more about authentication, access control and all that stuff one can do with .htaccess. In this HowTo you can find some interesting hints on how to deal with search engines, increase comfort and security by using mod_rewrite and boosting up the speed with the help of caching . All in all a very nice paper, like the rest of the .htaccess stuff over there.

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Today it’s again about server hardening, better to say RedHat hardening. Because I ‘ll have to deal with that system from time to time, this paper by Werner Puschitz is quite helpful, providing some very useful tricks and hints. For example how to enable scp without providing login prompts.

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Today its about the security of the most popular web server around, Apache. The main things to secure a (not only web-) server are not new, and always the same. Disable unused modules/services, care about access privileges, use the latest patches and so on…
Pete Freitag has collected some important facts for the Apache in some kind of check list, wich has helped me quite a few times, especially when in a hurry, or check a foreign configuration.
Who likes to have a closer look at the topic should think about consuming this book, published by O’Reilly.

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