Fail2ban centos
Installing and configuring the fail2ban centos service fail2ban is a service for linux systems that checks log files for failed login attempts and automatically inserts firewall rules to block further…
Mod Security Web Application Firewall
What is a WAF A WAF is a web application firewall. A Web Application Firewall protects HTTP applications (eg websites) using a set of rules to protect against various common…
Malware detection on Plesk systems
Malware detection on Plesk systems using maldet and clamav Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the…
Php fpm with apache on centos7
This is a short post detailing how to manually setup php fpm with apache on centos7. php fpm is a great solution (especially when used with nginx, but you may…
Install xdebug in centos7 with php7
I just realised I dont have a post on how to install xdebug in centos7 with php7 and setting up xdebug and eclipse. Its a feature that I use every…
Install php7 on centos7
There are a couple of different ways to install php7 on centos7 - Installing yum-plugin-replace and inline-replaceing the whole php subsystem seems to be the easiest way: You need to…
Configuring free SSL certs with Letsencrypt in centos
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts…
Hardening ssl ciphers
Hardening ssl ciphers. I wrote a post previously about disabling sslv2 and enabling sslv3 and tlsv1. Times have changed since then, its been best-practice for a long time now to…
Setting up a LAMP development environment in linux mint or ubuntu
This post will show you how to setup a LAMP [linux apache mysql php] development environment in linux mint or ubuntu firstly, open a shell. then, type sudo apt-get install…
How to remove or disable sslv2 and enable sslv3 and tlsv1 in courier imap apache and qmail
This post is old. the information is not kept up-to-date. for the current best-practice, including how to disable sslv2, please see this post This is something that comes up all…
Php stuff. mod rewrite and a custom url parser.
Well. I have to make a new website. I actually have about ten to do. we are making big changes to our system. we are taking all of the code…