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Debian patches Apache bug, upstream yet to react

cj2003 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:00:58 +0000

The Debian GNU/Linux project has issued a patch so its users can fix the denial of service vulnerability in the open source Apache httpd server that was announced by the Apache Software Foundation last week. Read more here

Apache on Ubuntu/Debian

cj2003 — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:57:40 +0000

When I first started using Ubuntu, I was coming from a distro journey that started with FreeBSD and took in Mandrake and Gentoo along the way; I hadn’t worked with any Debian-based systems before and was new to the way that Apache is configured on those platforms. More here

Make Browsers Cache Static Files With mod_expires On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze)

cj2003 — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:32:55 +0000

This tutorial explains how you can configure Apache2 to set the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header of static files (such as images, CSS and Javascript files) to a date in the future so that these files will be cached by your visitors’ browsers. More here

The Perfect Server – Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With BIND & Courier [ISPConfig 3]

cj2003 — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:08:54 +0000

This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. More here

Hosting Multiple SSL Web Sites On One IP Address With Apache 2.2 And GnuTLS (Debian Lenny)

cj2003 — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:49:24 +0000

This tutorial describes how you can host multiple SSL-encrypted web sites (HTTPS) on one IP address with Apache 2.2 and GnuTLS on a Debian Lenny server. More here

A simple Debian based dev environment

cj2003 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:43:39 +0000

This is just a quick walkthrough describing how to setup a decent development environment allowing the easy setup of multiple sites. It already assumes you have a working Debian or Ubuntu OS installed and configured with PHP, MySql & Apache already running. You will also need to have a working sudo. More here

Caching With Apache’s mod_cache On Debian Lenny

cj2003 — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:41:26 +0000

This article explains how you can cache your web site contents with Apache’s mod_cache on Debian Lenny. If you have a high-traffic dynamic web site that generates lots of database queries on each request, you can decrease the server load dramatically by caching your content for a few minutes or more (that depends on how often you update your content). More here

Apache Hadoop in Debian Squeeze

cj2003 — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:53:01 +0000

Since I always had a GNU Debian on my private box as my main operating system – even installed it on my MacBook following the steps in the Debian Wiki. As I am also an Apache Mahout committer, closely related to the Apache Hadoop project, I always found it kind of sad that there were no Hadoop packages in the official Debian repositories. More here

Configuring the Apache MPM on Debian

cj2003 — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:21:10 +0000

Part of the apache web server installation is the “MPM”, which stands for “Multi-Processing Method”. The MPM determines the mechanism apache uses to handle multiple connections. More here

Tightening PHP Security on Apache 2.2 with ModSecurity2 on Debian Lenny Linux

cj2003 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:00:06 +0000

In this article you’ll learn how I easily installed and configured the ModSecurity 2 on a Debian Lenny system. More here

First let me give you a few introductionary words to modsecurity, what is it and why it’s a good idea to install and use it on your Apache Webserver.