SECURITY GROUPS – Create one for each service (isolate IPs accordingly) RDS instance (mysql – set security group to only MySQL) EFS instance (keep logs .conf and http files) EC2 instance (the engine that runs the show) Linux login – log in with new .pem file Linux update – sudo yum -y update Linux EFS.
Apache or httpd (Accept Passphrase on Boot)
——————————————————————— – OVERVIEW / THOUGHT PROCESS – ——————————————————————— This experiment was conducted on a CentOS 6 installation of Linux. As always, with any other installations of Linux, there may be slightly different commands and directories to consider, but the theory is the same. Try it out if you like the concept… WHY NOT?!? This experiment.
Fail2Ban vs. Firewall…. FIGHT!
——————————————————————— – OVERVIEW / THOUGHT PROCESS – ——————————————————————— For months now, I’ve been dealing with customers calling about their email services being no longer available. By the time I troubleshoot the problem, their email has come back on line which created a ‘could not duplicate’ finality to the problem. As such, I got extremely curious.
MySQL Replication (the easy way)
——————————————————————— – OVERVIEW / THOUGHT PROCESS – ——————————————————————— Recently, there was a hardware failure on my primary mail server, which left me (and my clients) without email for an entire day. Although it was possible to use one of my backups to get us up and running again, I decided to take another route. After.
VMWare Networking (eth0 vs eth1)
——————————————————————— – OVERVIEW / THOUGHT PROCESS – ——————————————————————— One of the best and most efficient ways to have a test network is to use VMWare (or any virtual machine) software to create test computers. In this particular case, I was creating a CentOS 6.4 machine similar to my active webserver to test against. As is.
Password Protect Your Web Directory (apache)
Have you ever just wanted to protect something on your web server. Perhaps there’s a sensitive web page that you created like a blog that you only want certain people to see. Well, here’s how you do it! This will be written for a Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS platform, but will work on any apache web server.
Sendmail rejected — Default CentOS Installation
Server Migration (httpd.conf & mysql)
——————————————————————— – OVERVIEW / THOUGHT PROCESS – ——————————————————————— The following will be a small experiment to answer some questions that have peaked my curiosity. In this scenario, I have two separate CentOS servers with two different public IP addresses. Both have SSH enabled through the firewall and I need to move multiple websites from server.