A popular question when troubleshooting database issues is what version of mySQL is installed and used? You can find this information by running a simple command on the mySQL server. Connect to your MySQL engine with your favorite client, why…
Quick tip of a nice program for your Linux server: logwatch. this handy little program will parse your server logs and send you an email with the important details. To install it on Debian, run this command with sudo…
Guess I’m not the only one who have a lot of unauthorized login attempts via SSH on my Linux servers. With a simple command, you can watch failed or successful login attempts in /var/log/auth.log. #As root or via sudo, type…
cPanel is counted as the most reliable and easiest way to manage your web hosting account. It has many features and allows you to make changes from the user end. Websites which are hosted on the Linux servers will get…
Often when installing a web application or script you need an SMTP server to send email but rarely there is the need to recieve any email and on those occasions it is unnecessary to set up an full blown SMTP…
Introduction This guide describes how to generate and use a private/public key pair to log in to a remote system with SSH using PuTTY. Using key-based SSH logins, you can disable the normal username/password login procedure which means that only…
After reading an article about WordPress security measures it got me wondering how I could see how many login attempts were made on this and other WordPress sites that I run. After a few minutes searching I decided to take…
You can insure yourself against accidentally changing your files using versioning. The technique can be used in many contexts, a good example that we will discuss below is the important configuration files for Linux Systems. Some programs have relatively small…
In this guide we will go through howto install a basic wordpress site using Minstall to minimize the memory footprint by removing unnecessary services. I will be using a a OpenVZ vps with 256 mb RAM to show you the steps…
With the recent rise in brute-force attacks against WordPress installations, it’s now my turn to write down a checklist on things to do that will make your installation more secure. There are different levels to secure the installation, you can…
