The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of version
2.2.15 of the Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”). This version of httpd is
principally a security and bug fix release.
Notably, this release was updated to reflect the OpenSSL Project’s
release 0.9.8m of the openssl library, and addresses CVE-2009-3555
(cve.mitre.org), [...] The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) — developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects — today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.
The ASF’s first project became the world’s most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 million [...] When I think about the Apache Software Foundation, I usually think of the flagship project and serving Web pages, but there’s a lot more going on over at the ASF besides the ubiquitous HTTP Server. Case in point, the project recently released PDFBox 1.0, a Java library for working with PDF documents.
The PDFBox project comprises [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the Apache [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny
This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2
on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over
HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for iSecure Sockets Layer/i and
is a cryptographic [...] The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.42 of the Apache HTTP
Server (“Apache”). This release is intended as the final release of
version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server, which has reached end of life
[...] What’s better than an Apple iTablet, or whatever Cupertino is releasing today? A spam-free inbox, and you can get that (or very close) for free thanks to the Apache Foundation. Yesterday marked the first major SpamAssassin release since 2007 when the Apache Foundation unleashed SpamAssassin 3.3.0.
SpamAssassin is a set of Perl programs that filters mail [...] The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) may stop releasing new versions of the older 1.3 and 2.0 series of its flagship Web server product with most development now focused on the 2.2 series.
The Apache HTTP server project is one of the most successful and popular (the most popular Web server on the Internet since 1996, say [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 9.10 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install
ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you
to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web
server, Postfix [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Mandriva 2009.1
This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid
and PHP5 on Mandriva 2009.1. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to
the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the
permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
Link to [...] The Apache HTTP Server Project developers have announced the availability of version 2.2.14 of their open-source HTTP server. According to the projects developers, the release is considered to be the “best available version of Apache HTTP Server”. In addition to fixing bugs, Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 addresses a number of security issues.
The update includes version [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1
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pLighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a [...] This is a short overview of what happened on Friday August 28 2009 to the apache.org services. A more detailed post will come at a later time after we complete the audit of all machines involved.
On August 27th, starting at about 18:00 UTC an account used for automated backups for the ApacheCon website hosted [...] If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem
already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS
system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails
trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain
to detect which of the sites is vulnerable [...] LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address [...] If most developers contribute to open-source projects because they want to, rather than because they’re forced to, why do we have the GNU General Public License?
That’s the question that hit me last night as I tried to sleep in the shadow of Richard Stallman’s MIT. Stallman, of course, originated the GPL, a brilliant way to [...] mod_qos gives some fine-grained opportunities to scale the number of
used connections and to defend an attack according to bandwidth limits.
Unfortunately it is only available as source-package and there are many
possible settings, wich might be hard to setup for this special case.
So I provide the way that helped me.
Read more at HowtoForge Apache is one of the most popular web servers available. And most Apache installations are running on Linux servers. Anyone running Linux will tell you that the operating system (be it on a server or desktop) enjoys a level of security many operating systems do not enjoy. But does that mean you can just install [...] Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows users to edit and manage files collaboratively on remote World Wide Web servers.
Installing WebDAV in debian
First install apache using the following command
#aptitude install apache2
Read more at DebianAdmin This howto shows one method of doing mass virtualhosting using
mod_rewrite to dynamically map a list of directories on your filesystem
to virtual hosts. Additionally, by rewriting the incoming URL to the
user’s home directory we can make use of suEXEC to have Apache execute
CGI scripts as the owner of the script.
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