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ModSecurity: Audit Log: Failed To Create Subdirectories: /var/asl/data/audit (Permission Denied)

SecurityBy alexMarch 18, 2011Leave a comment

If you performed a default install of ModSecurity but never modified the configuration or completed any other steps the chances are that you are not logging any ModSecurity items. Typically you just need to add a directory structure with the proper permissions and then ModSecurity will do the rest as far as generating the files…

Technology Errors

git: Error: Some Local Refs Could Not Be Updated; Try Running ‘git remote prune origin’ To Remove Any Old, Conflicting Branches

ErrorsBy alexApril 20, 2010Leave a comment

Lately I have been working on a Ruby project that has a bunch of different branches that various developers are working on. One of the development servers has multiple virtual hosts and at certain points in the code release cycle the various virtual hosts could be completely split from the main branch of Ruby code…

Code Snippets

Shell Script To Configure A Read Only User On A PostgreSQL Database

Code SnippetsBy alexOctober 30, 2009Leave a comment

**UPDATE: New article here. Its a little more complicated to create a read only database user with PostgreSQL than say using something like MySQL. You will need to grant select access on each table in the database for the read only user. Keep in mind that each time you add a new table you will…

Technology Errors

WordPress File Upload Error: The uploaded file could not be moved to

ErrorsBy alexApril 15, 200913 Comments

When attempting to upload files via the WordPress admin to your blog you might receive the below error. This error can be caused for a couple different reasons of which the main reason relates to permissions. Resolving the issue is a security risk but depending on how convenient you want it to be to upload…

Technology Errors

Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file .ssh/authorized_keys

ErrorsBy alexMarch 23, 200910 Comments

When configuring SSH keys to be able to login to a server without a password you mighkeys2t run into a permissions error. If the authorized_keys or authorized_keys2 file has the incorrect permissions it will not authenticate with your ssh-rsa key but instead still require a password. If you are having trouble configuring SSH keys you…

Technology Errors

[ERROR] Could not use /var/log/mysql-err.log for logging (error 13)

ErrorsBy alexOctober 4, 2008Leave a comment

081004  2:35:11 [ERROR] Could not use /var/log/mysql-err.log for logging (error 13). Turning logging off for the whole duration of the MySQL server process. To turn it on again: fix the cause, shutdown the MySQL server and restart it. The above error displayed in the mysqld.log file fter adding the below line to /etc/my.cnf under [mysqld]. log=/var/log/mysql.log…

Technology Insights

Linux CLI Commands For Windows

InsightsBy alexSeptember 7, 2008Leave a comment

The best way I have found to emulate Linux commands for Windows is by installing CYGWIN.  This is an application that will run on pretty much all Windows machines and provides a ton of Linux type commands. After installing CYGWIN you will need to set your path as noted below.

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Images Not Showing Up Properly For WP-Forum WordPress Plugin

InsightsBy alexAugust 21, 2008Leave a comment

After installing the wp-forum plugin you may notice that the layout looks out of wack. This could be for numerous issues but one I came across was the fact that after unpacking the plugin on the server the main directory permissions were incorrect. If you chown 775 wp-forum in <web-root>/wp-content/wp-plugins/wp-forum this should resolve your issue.

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