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find out if your Apache is really serving the right hosts

From time to time it can happen that websites that used to be on your webservers are being moved by your clients without notifying you. Therefore, you will have to search for «zombie websites». I have the following setup: There … Continue reading

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SFTP only and SSH only OpenSSH system with gentoo

Although there are many ways workarounding the lack of security with ye olde FTP, there is a quite handy solution: use OpenSSH via SCP/SFTP to handle the file transfers. There are many solutions which all try to restrict the access … Continue reading

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rebuilding Cyrus indexes

You might know the situation, something happened, and afterwards you get error messages from Cyrus telling you that your databases just have crashed. Then, your Inbox is shown empty while the filesystem does show the correct files. What happened? Every … Continue reading

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icecast and awstats

Not much has yet been written about this topic and it really is no big deal but some sentences more would have made me feel more secure. Therefore, I tell what to do. We need icecast and awstats (definitely) and … Continue reading

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lighttpd and awstats

There are lots of howtos for running awstats with lighthttpd. Nearly all of them define a subdomain for statistics but miss to add the only line for defaulting to awstats.pl. Here is what you have to do to do it … Continue reading

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bringing awstats and mod_vhost_alias together

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