Installing mod_evasive on cPanel and/or Apache
Posted on January 29, 2010
This guide details how to install mod_evasive on cPanel to help protect against DDOS attacks, brute force attacks and other irritants.
It uses an internal hash table of IPs and URLs and can temporarily block web requests to anyone requesting a large number of page views, or making many concurrent requests. Properly configured it can help evade DDOS attacks and keep your customers happy.
You can integrate it with iptables and hardware firewalls too if you like.
Enabling mod_deflate/gzip globally on cPanel
Posted on January 26, 2010
There's far too many reasons to mention why you should enable mod_deflate to gzip your content served by Apache. Simply put, it makes it go fast.
You can enable mod_deflate in cPanel really easily with /scripts/easyapache. Easy.
[Snippet] Connecting to Windows 2008 Server from XP
Posted on January 25, 2010
By default, Windows 2008 requires Network Level Authentication to connect via RDP/Terminal Services. This is not supported on Windows XP. It is supported on XP SP3 but its a dirty hack to get working. Try it if you like. Or, change the security settings on Windows 2008, select Allow connections from computers running any version Remote Desktop (less secure).
This also works for XP -> Vista connections.
Installing Windows Server 2008 on PERC 4/DC
Posted on January 25, 2010
Got an older server like a Dell PowerEdge 2850 or a 2900 that you want to install Windows Server 2008 on?
You'll need to provide extra drivers for Windows to see the PERC RAID array.
I downloaded the Windows 2003 PERC 4/DC drivers from Dell.
Installing memcached on CentOS (cPanel)
Posted on January 23, 2010
Welcome to hell. No really, compared to installing memcached on Ubuntu, CentOSs really sucks. CentOS really sucks for package management. Really sucks. Anyway, on to the point.
Here's how I installed memcached on CentOS, which I mainly use for cPanel.
[Snippet] Stop Windows Update irritating you to restart after updates
Posted on January 23, 2010
I've been irritated to reboot my laptop every fifteen minutes to reboot my laptop. Its never convenient is it.
Click Start, Run and type net stop wuauserv
[Snippet] CentOS Server Firewall Configuration
Posted on January 22, 2010
CentOS 5 Server has a nice text interface to configuring your firewall.
system-config-securitylevel-tuiSimple install of memcached on Ubuntu
Posted on January 22, 2010
Memcached is a free, high performance distributed memory object caching system. In English, it can make your single server PHP applications faster or for a little more technical users you can write cache and share cache objects over a web server farm or cluster. Great, eh.
No seriously, it can really make your PHP faster.
Detecting MIME types in PHP
Posted on January 22, 2010
Detecting MIME types in PHP used to be hellish.
Use the mime_content_type function I hear you say. Returns the MIME content type for a file as determined by using information from the magic.mime file. No, its garbage and thankfully now depreciated.
The PHP documentation suggests we use the Fileinfo PECL extension. I wasted ten minutes of my day trying to make that work. It even comes packaged with PHP 5.3. Still doesn't work.
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