Archive for 'Techno Babble'
The old JavaScript cPanel Server exploit
Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by wiredgorilla.
TweetThe Javascript exploit has been an old saga on a few Linux distros running cPanel and Plesk . The compromise is at the root level and a rootkit has been installed. This rootkit will attach to several syscalls within the kernel and begin serving malicious javascript to random web visitors. This root compromise is not [...]
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CentOS 5.1 Server Setup: LAMP, Email, DNS, FTP, ISPConfig (a.k.a. The Perfect Server)
Posted on 26. Feb, 2009 by wiredgorilla.
TweetThis tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.1 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of [...]
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How to install mod_gzip on a Linux server
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by wiredgorilla.
TweetThis guide will show you how to install mod_gzip on your Linux server mod_gzip – what’s that, anyway? mod_gzip – serving compressed content by the Apache webserver mod_gzip is an external extension module for the WWW’s most popular web server Apache, created in autumn, 2000. Its implementation allows for using the compression method gzip for [...]
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How to check and stop if DDoS attack is going on.
Posted on 20. Sep, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
TweetDistributed denial-of-service attacks In a distributed attack, the attacking computers are often personal computers with broadband connections to the Internet that have been compromised by viruses or Trojan horse programs. These allow the perpetrator to remotely control machines to direct the attack, and such an array of computers is called a botnet. With enough such [...]
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Downgrading MySQL5 to MySQL4.1 in cPanel
Posted on 25. Aug, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
TweetFor whatever reason , some people still want to run the old version of MySQL4.1 in there new cPanel servers, which seems a little issue , as the default database version in new cPanel server installs is MySQL5. Here are the simple steps to downgrade the database (this should only be done on a new [...]
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MD5 password generator
Posted on 22. Aug, 2008 by .
TweetMD5 password generator $pw is: "; echo " " . strtoupper(md5($pw)) . ""; } ?> Enter a password to encrypt:
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Easyapache failing on CentOS server
Posted on 20. Jul, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet Had an issue with one on our CentOS cPanel servers running 64 bit and cPanels easyapache upgrade. The folks at cPanel helped out with their usual professional response
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How to find MAC address in CentOS
Posted on 19. Jul, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
TweetOpen SSH and type the following and press Enter: /sbin/ifconfig | grep -i hwaddr The sequence of hexadecimal digits that appears to the right of eth0 HWAddr (e.g. 08:00:27:ED:DA:8b) is your network card’s MAC Address
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Problems with CenotOS5 – cPanel and BIND
Posted on 22. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet If you have issues with cPanel running CentOS5 with BIND then the easiest way is to downgrade BIND to 9.2.4 The reason you’re having trouble is because CentOS 5 uses bind-9.3 and CentOS 4 uses bind-9.2 – The changes between these versions is significant enough that cPanel won’t work with it properly. For instance [...]
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kernel yum upgrade
Posted on 21. Jun, 2008 by wiredgorilla.
Tweetcheck what kernel you are running at the moment uname -a and to upgrade your kernel yum update \kernel* check if your kernel is added to grub cat /boot/grub/grub.conf and then reboot shutdown -rf now
