If you are running your Apache instances through Netscalers and want to avoid cluttering your logs with Netscaler heartbeat calls, try the below: # Dont log netscaler heartbeats and log ns requests from the CLIENT-IP header and not %a (via combinedtimens) LogFormat “%a %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\” %D” combinedtime LogFormat “%{CLIENT-IP}i …
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To check if an SSL certificate passes the MS 1024 bit minimum key length requirement (1024 bits), run this command: echo blah | openssl s_client -showcerts -connect amazon.co.uk:443 2> /dev/null | grep “Server public key”
Note that it works with a default loglevel of debug, so in your vhost set: LogLevel debug or change the loglevel it activates at
# Fix the cookie path and secure it Header edit Set-Cookie “^(.*)” $1;Secure via xMatters Community: How to increase security by marking cookies as ‘secure’.
“The CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release CR repository is now available on mirror.centos.org. This repository contains rpms to be included in the next CentOS-5.x release. Because these include security and bugfix updates, we strongly recommend everyone using CentOS-5 install and update their system using this repository.” via [CentOS-announce] CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release i386 and x86_64. Particularly useful if …
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If you are using mod_proxy in Apache, remember that it will “cache” errors. In certain instances you won’t want this – such as internal development. So you might want to do something like: ProxyPass / http://localhost:8888/ retry=0
I thought I’d evaluate mod_pagespeed. Unfortunately it broke my self-hosted openID login (via phpMyID). So don’t do it.