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10 ways to secure your Apache installation

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

 File permissions play an important part in website security, particularly if you are running your own web server. A few simple steps when setting up a website can save you a lot of trouble in the future and can be … Continue reading

How to install Nagios on Sabayon /Gentoo

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Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when things go wrong and again when they get better.  Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but also … Continue reading

Why Oracle choose to donate OpenOffice to Apache?

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The success story of Open Office took a nosedive when the proprietary software giant Oracle picked up Sun Microsystems and through it OpenOffice. With its donation to non-parent open source incubator such as Apache Software Foundation Oracle has once again … Continue reading

avoid using sudo when working in /var/www

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Question   How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?       Answer  : Add  the  user  to the www-data group and set the setgid bit on the /var/www directory so that all newly created files inherit this … Continue reading

Apache Libcloud, incubated cloud manager, graduates to Apache Software Foundation Project

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Finally, with Apache Libcloud, using multiple cloud services is to soon become easy, simplified and faster. Cloud Interoperability is never an easy affair, but Apache Libcloud set out to deliver on this. Between its incubation stage in 2009 and 2011 … Continue reading

Install apache with mod_rewrite configuration

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This module uses a rule-based rewriting engine (based on a regular-expression parser) to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. It supports an unlimited number of rules and an unlimited number of attached rule conditions for each rule to provide a … Continue reading

Opensuse11.4 – Apache – Access Forbidden 404| FAQs

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Question: I installed apache  from yast  manager in opensuse and i started apache, everything went ok. Now  when i type in the browser http://ip i got the error message : Access Forbidden  404

How to Protect apache directories with a password in Ubuntu

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Question : How to Protect apache directories with a password in Ubuntu?

How to Enable and disable apache modules

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For  Debian / Ubuntu Linux you can enable or disable any apache module using a2enmod and a2dismod. You don’t need to edit the conf file for that unless you are having some problem with this method. The syntax of these … Continue reading

How to install Lamp and Phpmyadmin in Fedora 13

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LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. In this … Continue reading