13Mar

Reset MySQL root password

Debian, MySQL

Today i had the bad luck to run into this problem. On one of my servers i have debian installed on it, nothing fancy , apache, mysql, phpmyadmin and cacti. I never use this server for hard work or anything that goes public, just personal stuff and different projects for testing purpose. Today i wanted [...]

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27Feb

Apache – Restrict access to certain directory by IP

Apache, Debian, Hacks

You can use this method to allow certain ip’s to access certain directories or to deny certain ip’s to access certain directories, its up to you how you want to protect that directory. In this example im gonna show you how to restrict access to a directory named “restricted” to a single ip, so when [...]

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26Feb

Hide Apache Version info from footer for a more secured webserver

Apache, Debian

I always hate the thing that after a new install of Debian(which is my favourite server OS) and Apache2(very stable webserver) i get that footer on List and Error pages that presents whoever visits that page with full info on name and version of modules installed. Thats not very safe, because these days the web [...]

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