It’s always a good idea to setup a local firewall on hosts that are on unprotected networks. The internet “winds” blow harder and harder each day, and it’s only a matter of time before some daemon has an exploit that gets taken advantage of. I use CentOS 5 for all my web servers, and here [...]
Whenever you go to install applications and services on registered RHEL servers, it’s always nice to use the RPMs because up2date will keep everything current for you. Managing upgrades gets a whole lot easier when you can bring your system up to current with one simple command. Because of this, I decided that I would [...]
OpenGroupWare is an open source groupware package intended as an alternative to proprietary applications such as Exchange and PostPath. It is fairly robust in its feature set, and even integrates well with MS Outlook.
Its strongest points, in my opinion are that it does not depend in any way on Active Directory, and that it [...]
Here is a quick and easy HOWTO for setting up .htaccess password protection on web-accessable directories. It's really easy, but it's always nice to have the syntax right at your fingertips.
First, find your way into the directory you want to protect.
% cd /path/to/secure/directory
Next, create a file in this directory called ".htaccess" and insert the following [...]
Everyone loves web applications that use Apache, PHP and MySQL, and everyone loves having their very own web servere that runs them. The problem is, how do you do it? If your're like me, you don't do it enough to remember, so here are some quick directions to get you started.
First we must download the [...]
Since I don't create certs all that often, I've always been frusterated by having to search out the commands every time I have to make one. Frequently I forget about removing tripple DES from the server.key file, and end up with a cert that makes me enter a psss phraze every time I start up [...]
