How to Skip PassPhrase Dialog
Enter SSL Pass Phrase If you have ever provided a passphrase while creating a private key for SSL configuration, then you are required to enter… Read More »How to Skip PassPhrase Dialog
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How to Redirect Web Page
Redirect Web Pages As time goes by, we may want to change URL of website into optimized ones for search engines in order to rank… Read More »How to Redirect Web Page
How to Make httpd.conf Take Effect
Since restarting httpd service may cause connections disrupted for seconds, you may use reload action instead of restart to make your httpd server apply new… Read More »How to Make httpd.conf Take Effect
Deny Browsing via IP Address
Visitors may sometimes access your server by a pretty raw manner which contains the most specific matching IP address. For instance, suppose the server IP… Read More »Deny Browsing via IP Address
Return "404 Not Found" Instead of "403 Forbidden"
Just like I said in the post How to Prevent Visitors From Accessing Non-Critical Directories. Another issue that we should be aware of, is the… Read More »Return "404 Not Found" Instead of "403 Forbidden"
Limit Access Directory
In this post, I will talk about how to protect non-critical but sensitive directories from accessing by visitors. For real critical directories, such as /wp-admin… Read More »Limit Access Directory
How to Enable Dynamic robots.txt with Virtual Hosts
The following configuration can enable the rewrite rules of your virtual hosts and make robots.txt point to any other dynamic file (e.g. robots.php or robots.asp)… Read More »How to Enable Dynamic robots.txt with Virtual Hosts
How to Enable Deflation of Files on Apache Web Server
Enabling deflation on Apache web server can reduce the size of files that your server responded, the configuration is quite simple: Just add the following… Read More »How to Enable Deflation of Files on Apache Web Server
How to Password Protect Web Directory
HTTP Basic Authentication - htpasswd is a quite old technology which has been lasted and evolved for a long time. It's easy to setup, but… Read More »How to Password Protect Web Directory
httpd Warning: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name
Met a message when restarting the httpd service: [root@www ~]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: … Read More »httpd Warning: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name