Learn Apache web server administration from the basic web server concept to the advanced topics, such as best practices, security, logging, integration, and other guides.
Total 35 articles.
If you are hosting your website on Cloud or dedicated server then, you will be given dedicated IP by hosting provider. This means your website is accessible through domain and IP, both of which could cause duplicate content if search engine indexes both URL and IP. Duplicate content is not good for SEO, and this is…
Secure & Harden Apache webserver with following best practices to keep your web application secure. The Web Server is a crucial part of web-based applications. Having misconfigured and the default configuration can expose sensitive information, and that’s a risk. As a website owner or administrator, you should regularly perform security scans against your website to…
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 it. This confirms file/folder exists and it’s restricted. Thus, 403 allows the hacker to know more about your file system structure and room for security vulnerabilities. It’s a good…
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 needs 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 with…
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…
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