Archive for September, 2007

ninja iptables for your server

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Security is often about layers on top of layers on top of layers… And one of these layers is usually an iptables firewall installed in your server. Let’s create a small script to provide our server with the kung-fu fighting techniques needed to defeat the black hats!!
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harden your apache+php installation

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Instructions follow on how to build and harden one of the most common configurations out there.
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rails environment with lighttpd

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

We want an automated deployment enviroment. The server will automatically (upon restart) detect all the rails applications under a given folder and create virtual hosts for them. No further changes in the server configuration will be required. never. :)
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