Create the password file: htpasswd -cm /etc/httpd/SITENAME-htpasswd USERNAME Then enter the user’s password twice. Next, update the .htaccess file in the directory that the user would like protected. These are [ … ]

Rewrites Rewrite domain.com to www.domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L] Rewrite www.domain.com to domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com$1 [L,R=301] Rewrite [ … ]

Why use ProxyPass instead of Varnish? Who wants to run a separate daemon and worry about it crashing or have to change port configs? Not Me. So lets get started [ … ]

Summary The purpose of this article is to configure and tune fail2ban to protect Apache web service.We often see Apache Access logs with hundreds of entries of gets and posts [ … ]

Summary Many users who migrate from Windows environments or from some Shared Webhosting providers will expect their environment to be case-insensitive. There are two ways that we can enable this [ … ]

Process Steps Make sure that the system is actually running Apache $ sudo netstat -pltn | grep 80 tcp           0       0 ::: 80    [ … ]

Installation RHEL / CentOS Apache can be installed via yum as shown below: [root@web01 ~]# yum install httpd httpd-tools mod_ssl When you setup Apache, its common to also setup PHP. [ … ]

Installation mod_rewrite is a standard Apache module configured by default. Configuration To allow RewriteRules in .htaccess files, you need a minimum of AllowOverride FileInfo in the VirtualHost or Directory config. [ … ]

Background In Managed Cloud, we often use Varnish or Nginx or Cloud Load Balancers to cache content so that customers with high traffic and/or low code quality can keep their [ … ]