Month: January 2013

Easy add IP to be blocked by iptables

by mikho • January 27, 2013 • 0 Comments

A question was asked over at www.lowendtalk.com on how to add ip addresses to iptables from a textfile. AnthonySmith found a simple but still effective way to solve this. The entry that were discussed was

iptables -A INPUT -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -p udp -m udp --dport 28960:28965 -j DROP

1 2	iptables -A INPUT -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -p udp -m udp --dport 28960:28965 -j DROP

Let’s break it all…

WordPress permalinks with nginx

by mikho • January 23, 2013 • 19 Comments

WordPress generally works out-of-the box on nginx. The posts load fine all the functions in the dashboard works pretty well. That is, until you come to the permalinks. If you are using WordPress on Apache (with mod_rewrite), WordPress will automatically…