Posts tagged ‘Apache’
Software installed and functioning by the end of this walk through :
First off grab a copy of FreeBSD 7.1 from http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
Once you have FreeBSD installed we can start.
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If you are suddenly receiving a lot of request within a short period of time because you’ve been linked by a large site like Digg or Slashdot, your hosting solution might not be able to handle the load.
This article should help your to prepare your WordPress blog for such a case or if you’re just using a slow webhost and want to improve the general performance.
Insert a line similar to the one below into your .htaccess file in your web server’s document root:
deny from 10.205.111.43
And all connections from that IP will no longer be able to view your site.
If you want to disable directory listing for any folder then simply create one file as .htaccess in that directory & insert rule IndexIgnore * in that file.
IndexIgnore * means directory will not list any file or folder. If you want to disable listing of .jpg files only then rule would be IndexIgnore *.jpg with this rule directory will list all files and folders excluding files with extension .jpg.
The self-signed certificate is a certificate that you can create yourself that will provide SSL encryption but without the verification of your website from an outside source. The outside verification does cost money. In other words, you can get the protection you need, encryption by doing it yourself. One thing to note, if you are taking people’s credit card information then you will need to get a signed certificate as a warning appears when you are using self-signed certificates.
The following details how to install the Apache webserver on FreeBSD.
Here are some things you can do to make your apache configuration more secure.
Some of these suggestions may decrease performance, or cause problems due to your environment. It is up to you to determine if any of the changes I suggest are not compatible with your requirements. In other words proceed at your own risk.
Apache is the world’s most common web server and it runs on just about anything, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, BSD, you name it and it’s typically the web server of choice in the Linux world. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. It is free in cost and is licensed under the Apache license, one of man open source licenses.
Htaccess can be used to password-protect directories on your web site. All files and any subdirectories within a directory protected by htaccess will also be protected. So, if you wish to protect your entire web site, simply setup htaccess in your public_html directory (the root of your web site). However, if you only wish to protect certain directories, you may do so separately.
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