Install and configure fail2ban Rumi, January 4, 2015 Servers do not exist in isolation, and those servers with only the most basic SSH configuration can be vulnerable to brute force attacks. fail2ban provides a way to automatically protect the server from malicious signs. The program works by scanning through log files and reacting to offending actions such as… Continue Reading
Reset Zpanel Zadmin Password Rumi, December 25, 2014April 25, 2017 It’s a silly though, after updated from webGUI zpanel’s dashboard, the updated password wasn’t just working!!! So had to google a while and found the answer- keeping it for future reference- setzadmin -set password Note: In “password” area type “your new password” That’s it! Continue Reading
Add EPEL Repo to CentOS or SL 6 Rumi, November 24, 2014February 4, 2024 For 64 Bit rpm –import http://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm For 32 Bit rpm –import http://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Additional Add Remi Repo rpm –import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi rpm -ivh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm yum install yum-priorities Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo… vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo Update: Feb-04-2024 Enable the EPEL Repository on CentOS 6.x, RHEL 6.x,… Continue Reading
Open Sourced Load Balancer Rumi, October 30, 2014 Linux Virtual Server The Linux Virtual Server Project is a project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS load balancer handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP… Continue Reading
MySQL Master-Master Replication Rumi, October 26, 2014October 26, 2014 This article is about setting up MySQL Master-Master database replication between two Cloud Servers. Master-Master data replication allows for replicated data, stored on multiple computers, to be updated by any authorized contributing member of the group. This allows for more open collaboration than Master-Slave replication where any needed changes identified… Continue Reading
Install Perfect Mail Server with ISPConfig and Horde 5.0 on Debian Wheezy- Part-1 Rumi, October 13, 2014October 13, 2014 First, Install Basic Debian Wheezy. Make sure your network configurations are ok. Once installed start doing following- Fixing hostname- edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this: vi /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.100 server1.example.com server1 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes… Continue Reading
Fixing Bind for Webmin Rumi, October 5, 2014 First get rid of bind-chroot (if it is installed!) yum -y remove bind-chroot edit /etc/sysconfig/named and remove/comment out any lines that look like ROOTDIR="/var/named/chroot" Fix the owner of /etc/named.conf with chown named:named /etc/named.conf In Webmin go to Servers > Bind DNS Server > Module Config and check the following configs Continue Reading
Bash Shellshock fix with scripts for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and other distros. including old Rumi, October 3, 2014December 19, 2014 First check if your Bash is vulnerable, execute the following command- env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable’ bash -c ‘echo this is a test’ If your system is vulnerable, you will see: vulnerable this is a test If your system is not vulnerable, you will see: bash: warning: x: ignoring… Continue Reading
PHPSysinfo Installation and Configuration on Debain Rumi, September 26, 2014September 26, 2014 PhpSysInfo is an awesome PHP script that displays system and other monitoring information for Linux. phpSysInfo pulls data from /proc and other locations to display on an easy to read page. On Ubuntu or Debian, install phpsysinfo with: $ sudo apt-get install phpsysinfo The config file is then located in:… Continue Reading
Install PHP4 on CentOS 5.5 Rumi, September 6, 2014 1. Install Apache yum install httpd 2. Install Mysql yum install mysql mysql-server php-mysql 3. Install dependencies yum install flex gcc* bison bison-devel httpd-devel make 4. Download PHP4 cource wget http://lu2.php.net/get/php-4.4.9.tar.gz/from/my2.php.net/mirror Continue Reading