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.
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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…
Go HTTPS; it doesn’t cost anything, and yet you get search engine ranking and security. HTTPS should be everywhere, and lately, Google has considered this as a ranking signal to their search engine results. There are two primary reasons you should consider securing your website with an SSL certificate. Security – to ensure sensitive data…
Apache Web Server source code compilation is always fun. It’s very rare that Apache will be compiled on the first run on a brand new server. The fact is it requires a lot of pre-requisite and if any of them is missing or version compatibility then you may have to spend a lot of time…
While working on Oracle HTTP Server, one of the errors I encountered following while starting the instance immediately after installation. “[alert] (22) Invalid argument : setgid : unable to set group id to Group 4294967295” Are you in the same situation as I was? It sounds funny, but Group directive in httpd.conf is commented by…
New features in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x Apache 2.4.1 was released in Feb 2012 with much great enhancement and new features. The latest version as I write is 2.4.10 released in July 2014. In this article, I will talk about some of the significant enhancement, new features included in Apache 2.4 version. Enhancement KeepAliveTimeout: It’s possible…
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