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Set correct permissions on your linux/apache website files and directories

fdrewett — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:11:01 +0000

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Excerpt: This will help you to easily set correct permissions on your linux/apache website files and directories with one command As root cd to the ‘document root path’ of your website directory (ie: html, htdocs, httpdocs) and do as follows find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; && find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; or find /path/to/docroot/. -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; && find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; this sets all your files to 644 and all your directories to 755 for example, cd /var/www/html find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; && find ….

Placing Authentication directives directly into httpd.conf instead of using .htaccess

techsrx — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:21:58 +0000

The purpose of using the “distributed configuration file” .htaccess is so that users may control authentication. It can also be set in the Apache configuration file httpd.conf WITHOUT using the .htaccess file. This can improve server performance as the server will not have to look for the .htaccess file in each subdirectory.

  AllowOverride AuthConfig  AuthName "Add message visitors will see here. Keep Out!"  AuthType Basic  AuthUserFile /path/to/public_html/membersonly.htpasswd  AuthGroupFile /dev/null  require user name-of-user

Require user is optional. There is a lot of good information about httpd.conf, .htaccess in a tutorial at this link. http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialApacheAddingLoginSiteProtection.html

Adding a startup script to your linux system to run at reboot or startup

techsrx — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:02:18 +0000

This is probably what most Linux administrators would say is very easy or one of the simplest things to preform. I manage to have to back and look it up every time so I thought it would be helpful to someone to post it. So here it is in all its glory. Type in echo '/path/to/startup/script.sh start' >> /etc/rc.local If you have better or other ways of accomplishing the same please share.

So your Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP Servers Hard Drive is Full

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:05:35 +0000

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Excerpt: TechsRx has been hosting websites for about 6 years now and many of our hosting servers are on virtual hosting plans or VPS servers. These servers generally have root access that you manage yourself. This includes the control panel the operating system and all its updates not to mention all the customers and domains and websites. It has mostly been trouble free but when things go south it can be a little frustrating. One of the issues that has happened often is the disk or ard drive becomes full usually because of a log file hat has gone crazy or…