Posts Tagged ‘apache’

Stopping HTTP brute force attacks with BruteBlock & IPFW

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:00 2 Comments

One common issue that all systems administrators face is brute force attacks, whether it be SSH, FTP, WWW, SMB and almost anything else on a system. One frustration for admins of web servers are bots trying to gain access to password protected areas, automated scripts looking for vulnerable software, or simply poking around where they [...]

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Comprehensive Guide to Apache/MySQL/PHP on FreeBSD

Friday, December 12, 2008 21:44 No Comments

Browsing through Digg today I came across a very comprehensive guide to configuring a LAMP server on FreeBSD. For those who do not know, LAMP stands for Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP, and is one of the most common configurations for web hosting today.
Technically, on FreeBSD it should be FAMP, but who are we to nitpick, it is linux.com [...]

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