Recently I’ve had a problem with a server that had an SSL certificate installed. By default, SSL configuration requires a password protected key. If you have the same configuration and you’re trying to make apache starting on server boot, you have to input the password every time when it is booted. It is ok if you have a… Read More »
After a fresh MySQL server setup I always run mysql_secure_installation script. It allows to tune several settings, related to MySQL security and it is strongly recommended for running on every server. Let me show you the output of this command and explain some steps that are performed. [root@hosted-by checkers]# mysql_secure_installation NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS… Read More »
If you have a SSL certificate installed, you might want to force your visitors to use secure version of it. Sometimes you cannot modify httpd.conf, the only file that can resolve the issue is .htaccess. Let me paste the code below to help you set this up. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} This code checks… Read More »
If you are trying to compile PHP on a 64-bit OS (e.g. CentOS 6.4), you can see various error messages. The only reason is the different location of libraries, that causes the configure script to break. Let me tell you about a popular fix for DB4 support, that is not enabled by default. I have tried to configure… Read More »
If you have a website, hosted on Netfirms, you should have experienced the problem of getting Error 500 even if you have a PHP syntax error in your scripts. I have never seen such a strange solution to make all errors look like 500, but I think this is done because of security requirements. Anyway, if you need… Read More »
If you need to check various settings related to DNS records, I suggest you to use a free service – digwebinterface.com . For example, you need to ensure you have set everything up for Google Apps on your domain (MX records). Here is how it should look like: If you would like to check your nameserver records, just… Read More »
Performing a secure erase SSD poses a problem for many people. SSD stands for Solid State Drive or a Solid State Disk.
If you got some messy code output, created by Javascript, you should decode it to find out what exactly is going on.
0128 is the ASCII code for Euro. If you know any other ASCII code values, you can input them directly using Alt shortcuts.
An SFTP server can be accessed with a graphical client or through SFTP commands. SFTP stands for Secret File Transfer Protocol or Secure FTP.