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Lately, I was working on securing IBM HTTP Server with SSL on Linux OS and gave me following errors. [notice] (20019)DSO load failed: SSL0166E: Failure attempting to load GSK library (libgsk7ssl.so) Configuration Failed This happens when OS doesn’t have GSK dependencies library installed. Solutions: Install libstdc++5 library on OS and try to start IHS. yum…
Redirect 403 HTTP status return code to 404 Why? 403 (forbidden) HTTP status code gives a clue about a correct path, and you don’t have permission to access. This confirms file/folder exist and it’s restricted. Thus, 403 allow the hacker to know more about your file system structure and room for security vulnerabilities. It’s a good idea to…
Redirecting requests from a non-preferred domain is important because search engines consider URLs with and without “www” as two different websites. It creates a duplicate entry, which is not suitable for SEO. I noticed this when you analyze your site with SEO tool, thought to share with you all. You can redirect non-www to www…
Apache is a wonderful web server and I love it because of its flexibility. I had my site under subfolder and I decided to move to the root level of the domain. The main challenge was to keep all articles on the same path as a subfolder. Guess what it’s possible through RewriteCond in Apache web…
I know it’s time intense to compile Apache HTTP and it need all dependency libraries on your server. Compiling on a brand new server can take a long time in installing all the dependencies, libraries and if this is you regularly do then you can reduce the time by creating an RPM. Here I share…
HTTP Status Code is returned when an HTTP request is made to the server. The server returns an HTP Status Code in the response to your request. There are five classes of HTTP Status Code as following. Informational – 1XX Success – 2XX Redirection – 3XX Client Error – 4XX Server Error – 5XX Let’s…
Implement X-FRAME-OPTIONS in HTTP headers to prevent Clickjacking attacks Clickjacking is a well-known web application vulnerabilities. For example, it was used as an attack on Twitter. To defense the Clickjacking attack on your Apache web server, you can use X-FRAME-OPTIONS to avoid your website being hacked from Clickjacking. The X-Frame-Options in HTTP response header can…
Implement cookie HTTP header flag with HTTPOnly & Secure to protect a website from XSS attacks Do you know you can mitigate most common XSS attacks using HttpOnly and Secure flag with your cookie? XSS is dangerous. By looking at an increasing number of XSS attacks daily, you must consider securing your web applications. Without…
A quick guide to learn how to install Apache HTTP Server on Linux environment Apache is the most popular web servers and if you are working as System Administrator then it’s very likely that you will not cross the path to Apache HTTP. This is not typical yum installation instead download the source code and…
A practical guide to secure and harden Apache HTTP Server. The Web Server is a crucial part of web-based applications. Apache Web Server is often placed at the edge of the network hence it becomes one of the most vulnerable services to attack. Having default configuration supply much sensitive information which may help hacker to…
