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Aug/22

Let’s Encrypt With HaProxy

Filed Under Security, Web Server at 1st August 2022 0:01 by

Overview Using EFF’s goal to encrypt the Internet has spawned a project to issue TLS certificates is a great idea and opens up certificates for everyone and not just for those with money. To balance certificates being miss used, EFF … Continue reading →

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Sep/18

Manually Setting Up Webserver Time Trial

Filed Under Container, Web Server at 30th September 2018 23:01 by

Overview In this day and age, setting up a server is a non event with cloud computing. I am currently behind in setting things up manually and scripts rather than using a tool. I have dabbled in Vagrant and Chef. … Continue reading →

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Jun/18

Securing HAProxy Headers

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Web Server at 4th June 2018 0:01 by

Overview https://securityheaders.io will give a score of how well placed the HTTP headers are on a site ranging from A+ to F (not sure what the R rating is for). Headers are a powerful meta (invisible to the naked eye) … Continue reading →

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Apr/13

Apache Error: Invalid method in request /x16/x03/x01

Filed Under Software, Web Server at 15th April 2013 0:01 by
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The error relates to the SSL certificates defined in one of the site configuration. In my case the certificates were missing from the server so the error appear on the webpage when any users tried to access the page.

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Oct/12

Apache 2 Error “(98)Address already in use”

Filed Under Linux, Web Server at 24th October 2012 16:17 by

Overview I performed a reboot of my server running Apache 2 with SSL and found the sites were not loading when it came back up. Once the server was backup I assumed Apache had already started but none of the … Continue reading →

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Jun/11

Apache 2 Hardening Tips

Filed Under Linux, Security, Web Server at 26th June 2011 0:01 by

Below are some of the tricks I use or found useful to try to mitigate unwanted attention. Whilst this is not a definitive guide these are simple quick things that can be done. This was written for Ubuntu but it … Continue reading →

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Jun/11

Invalid Command ‘Header’

Filed Under Linux, Web Server at 21st June 2011 17:11 by
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Another error and same problem as last time: the module was not loaded! Invalid command ‘Header’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration $sudo a2enmod headers to enable the headers module $sudo service apache2 … Continue reading →

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Jun/11

Invalid Command ‘ExpiresActive’

Filed Under Linux, Web Server at 21st June 2011 17:10 by

I recently got the error message below when I was trying to reload Apache: Invalid command ‘ExpiresActive’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration …fail! To fix it ensure the “expires” module is loaded: … Continue reading →