After a quick LAMP install, I decided to install PhpMyAdmin. Logging into I noticed a warring message that read: The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration To resolve this I attempted the following: Elevated my console to root (sudo -i) apt-get install mcrypt apt-get install php5-mcrypt (no need because the previous command […]
Tag: Apache
I was testing one of my SSL enabled sites after securing apache HTTPD from POODLE, when I noticed the following warning: The server does not support Forward Secrecy with the reference browsers To ensure I was operating at the best security level possible for my little site, I added the following to the apache2.conf (/etc/apache2/) […]
If you are running Apache, as I do you may want to take steps to secure your system but making a slight adjustment to your configuration. By adding the simply line: SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3 The file location: /etc/apache2 The file name: apache2.conf Remember to always backup a configuration file before making changes. Once completed restart apache: […]
Logstalgia is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests. On a regular basis I tail the access.log of my website watching request to jermsmit.com Last night I ran across a awesome log visualizer tool called logstalgia. Logstalgia […]
LAMP which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and serves the purpose of web development based on Open Source concept. Apache is the Web server, MySQL is the relational database and PHP (Preprocessor Hyper Text) is an object oriented programming language. The simplest and most likely to be used approach is to use the […]