Author: dpepper

Apache’s newer version, 2.0, is necessary to take advantage of key features not available in older versions. Among them are:

Overview

A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel was announced on Jan. 14, 2016, by security researchers at Perception Point. The vulnerability has existed since 2012, and is present in all devices running version 3.8 of the Linux kernel and higher.

Liquid Web has introduced a new feature designed to simplify the removal of errant IP address blocks in the firewall, and allow customers to quickly remove their own address from within their Manage dashboard. In this manner, customers can remove blocks on their IP addresses even when they are unable to access WebHost Manager itself due to the block.

Ansible is an automation engine, similar to Chef or Puppet, that can be used to ensure deployment and configuration consistency across many servers, and keep servers and applications up to date. Unlike some other tools, Ansible does not require a client component/agent.

Logwatch is a Perl-based log management tool for analyzing, summarizing, and reporting on a server’s log files. It most often is used to send a short digest of a server’s log activity to a system administrator.

Lsyncd is an rsync-based tool that monitors specified directories (including subdirectories) for updates and modifications, then syncs those changes to a specified destination.

Pre-Flight Check

• These instructions are intended specifically for installing VIM (Visual editor IMproved or Vi IMproved), an open-source text editor, on Fedora 23.
• We’ll be working as root on a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 23 server. If you need to install vim on Fedora 22, visit this tutorial.
• If you’ve received the error “-bash: vim: command not found” while following any of our other tutorials, following the instructions below will resolve it.

Step #1: The Installation

As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:

Overview

On January 18, 2016, cPanel announced that it had discovered vulnerabilities affecting all current versions of its control panel software. At the time of the announcement, cPanel issued a Targeted Security Release for each software tier, which the company said addresses 20 vulnerabilities in cPanel and WHM.

Git is an open-source version control system used for source code management.

The Server Name Indication protocol (SNI) allows a web server such as Apache to determine the domain name for which a particular secure incoming connection is intended outside of the page request itself.