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| DATE | 2014-09-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Apache Security tips
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that only works if it is compiled
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> Okay... what distribution is this?
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> If apache wasn't compiled with support to allow using mod_rewrite
> then it sounds like it'll require recompiling the package to support
> it.
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> -- Chris
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I'm sorry for being so grumpy about this. I was deeply involved with
another related problemand I only posted the rewrite article for future
reference or interest to anyone who is running apache. The article
makes good first line of defense sense in protecting your system.
For my purposes, I don't want to spend the time learning the rules for
mod_rewrite and opted for use of modperl. I made that decision rather
than compiling mod_rewrite. I'd rather spend time learning more about
modperl, and actually I learned more than I thought I would, as I'm
looking at recompiling mod_perl in order to get around some issues,
which also entails getting right into the mod_perl source code. Maybe
I'll right a custom mod_perl handler in C when I'm done with this hayride.
Meanwhile, I just had an eye opening lecture in my computer architecture
class on binary numbers, octs and hexes, which taught some nifty
algorithms that I never saw before to transform the different base
numbers. Then, they moved into signed bytes, and 3 other types of
binary representations of negative numbers that I never saw before and
actually wonder why anyone thought of them.
As a fact though, I don't like how any of the dirstros put apache
together. I don't like how they put named together, dhcpcd, or even
routing. It is all spaghetti code. Every time I install a system,
lately, I end up ripping it apart and putting it back together again.
And now they are screwing with rc.d which is very bad. And I don't care
why they are doing it, anymore than i care why they are fucking up
gnome...I just want them to to stop.
Ruben
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