Today I’m installing CentOS 5.1 on VMware Server as a test machine. I thought it could be helpful to some to know how to do this so here it is.First of all, if you don’t have VMware Server, you can get your free copy over at http://www.vmware.com/download/server/. I am currently running VMware Server 1.0.2 but [...]

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Whether you’re running a virtual or dedicated web server, you want to squeeze as much juice as you can out of it. Apache’s HTTPD server has the possibility to use compression when it sends data to a web browser. The compression algorithms work particularly well on text data like HTML, CSS and Javascript but compressing [...]

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Sometimes you need to redirect visitors to a different URL than the one they came to. This could be for various reasons: a moved file, protecting your links, setting up friendly URLs, etc. There are many ways to achieve that, some at the server level and some at the browser level. Let’s see a few [...]

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Yesterday I wrote a post on how to protect your webserver against brute force attacks using APF and BFD. If you are using WHM, there’s similar alternative using cPHulk. cPHulk is a brute force protection system developped by the cPanel team and is exclusive to cPanel / WHM control panels. It has been integrated with [...]

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In computer security, a brute force attack is a way to gain access to a remote server’s resources by trying multiple combinations of logon names and passwords until a valid one is found. Most of the time, this type of attack is performed by a script which uses a list of the most common-known usernames [...]

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