On this guide you will read about a simple way to enable Apache’s TLS connections on your web server. Aside from useful it secures the connection from the client to the server and prevents unwanted tinkering. Anyone on the need of SSL (nowadays TLS) will benefit from this article but particularly will do those in the use of a CMS such as Drupal or Wordpress. Although these are … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2018
How to install WordPress on FreeBSD
You can find information about how to install Wordpress on FreeBSD somewhere else since there are many tutorials around explaining it. However I thought mine would be a bit more interesting to you. Read on. As you should be aware (and hopefully you already are) installing Wordpress requires a stack of other software. Typically you can read about the LAMP stack composed by the … [Read more...]
How to install ModSecurity on FreeBSD
Before we get into the how to install ModSecurity on FreeBSD 11 let’s address the first question. What is this thing and why is necessary? As I wrote a few weeks ago on a general security article ModSecurity is basically a web application firewall. As themselves explain this is a real-time application security monitoring and access control tool. It logs http(s) traffic in a … [Read more...]
How to enable log rotation on FreeBSD
This is a very short simple entry but it may help you. As many others you may be running a web server, or any other service that creates some logging information. Enable log rotation on FreeBSD will keep those log files in a manageable size (at least more readable) and they won’t grow and expand eternally in your /var/log directory. For this case we’ll see how to rotate logs … [Read more...]