Security, Linux, Development
i’ve added scponly rpms with chroot enabled for rhel4. get the files here or by apt/yum. this is more useful in a shared hosting environment than the rpms found at DAG and elsewhere that don’t have chroot enabled.
to use this, for example on a plesk box to allow domains to use sftp without having to give them a chroot’ed bash shell, do the following: Continue reading ’scponly rpms with chroot enabled added for rhel4′
This howto is meant to be a quick fix for those moving from one server to two or those with two servers who want to disable recursion. This only works if at least one of your nameservers answers authoritatively for each zone already. I believe it should work for those with more than two servers as long as one of the nameserver listed for any given domain does answer authoritatively. But if you have more servers than two, you should probably looking to setup your dns properly rather than using this quick fix shown here. Continue reading ‘HOWTO: use forwards in bind to only answer queries for domains on your servers (and not be an open dns server)’
I’ve added php-apc rpms for php 5.1.2 on rhel4, using the current stable release of APC (3.0.10). get the files here or by apt/yum. Additional notes: Continue reading ‘php APC rpms added for php 5.1.2 / APC 3.0.10 / rhel 4′
The following commands are all you need to create a self-signed (wildcard, if you want) SSL certificate: Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Create a self-signed (wildcard) SSL certificate’
This howto will show you how to setup an SSL certificate on a Plesk server so that it will be used when people connect through secure pop, smtp and imap. Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Setup SSL certificates for mail services (pop3s, imaps, smtps) on Plesk / Courier-Imap / Qmail’
This HOWTO shows how to use the Plesk command line utilties to backup and restore a single domain. This can be useful, among other reasons, as a way to move a site between servers (though now they have the Migration Manager for that) or as a way to make a final backup of a domain before removing it (though to be safe you should make other backups and have regular periodic backups as well). Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Backup and restore a Plesk domain from the command line’
php 5.1.2 rpms for centos 4 (rhel 4) have been added to the rpm download page. These are based off of the current fedora core 5 test 3 rpms with the following security changes for shared hosting environments:
This build does have cgi compiled with fastcgi support (the fedora php5 releases have that).