Fail2ban is a software used to ban IP's which shows strange behavior. It can be configured to reject IP's for a certain amount of time. To install Fail2ban we need to download the application from the source. Login as the root user and go to /opt $ cd /opt $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fail2ban/fail2ban-stable/fail2ban-0.8.4/fail2ban-0.8.4.tar.bz2?use_mirror=transact Next unzip the downloaded file $ tar -xf fail2ban-0.8.4.tar.bz2 $ cd fail2ban-0.8.4 (more…)

To check the Python version number in Linux, simply type $ python -V You will get an output

Python 2.4.3

Add the following list of lines into .htaccess file or to vhost configuration file appropriate to the folder within the website <Directory /securedata> Order Deny,Allow Deny from all </Directory> Same will be the case for denying files within directories <Files ~ "\.ini$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> The above lines of code will be helpful for us to prevent .svn files, .ini files, .htaccess files, include files from display within Apache

First, download the Zend framework and unzip the file contents to a location. At the time of the writing ZendFramework-1.11.12 was in use and we have used that version in this example. Key content of the download is the /library folder which has Zend libraries in it. Then, go to the "conf" folder that was created when the site was created. Inside the conf folder, create a new file and name it vhost.conf Add the below contents to vhost.conf and save it. (more…)

... a question that raises in the mind of programmers developing applications in their local development environments. This can be achieved by making the following modifications. Step (i) Install the WAMP / XAMPP server in your windows machine. After this install you will be able to access sites created on the localhost with URL http://localhost Step (ii) Download and extract the send mail application for Windows from http://glob.com.au/sendmail/. Remember the path where you have extracted sendmail. For e.g. c:\wamp\sendmail Step (iii) Edit sendmail.ini within c:\wamp\sendmail. This ini file has enough documentation explaining how the configuration changes should happen on the file. (more…)

Method 1: $ mail -s "Subject: Test email from linux server" info@test.com Press the "Return" key Enter the body part of the email Press ctrl + D Enter a CC email if you would like (e.g. info2@test.com) Press ctrl + D again Then check the mail box to see if the mail has arrived. (more…)