Recently I was doing a security audit on a Linux server and noticed some Apache and PHP items that needed to be modified to make the server more secure. One of the items that should be disabled is allow_url_fopen because the risk that it can be abused. The issue is that allow_url_fopen is on by…
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…
Today I was configuring a server running Postgres, Ruby, & Litespeed. It is a fairly easy setup that I run on numerous servers and it simply takes time to go through the motions to get everything up and running. There are a ton of steps so its highly likely that I miss one along the…
Recently I configured a virtual host in Litespeed outside of the normal Virtual Host Template I use. Typically I use the EasyRailsWithSuEXEC but this time I needed to use the PHP_SuEXEC template. It was easy as most configurations are with the LiteSpeed however when I performed a graceful restart I noticed that the virtual host…