Archive for the ‘Security’

  • Apache modules to help your server
    libapache2-mod-bw – bandwidth limiting module This module allows you to limit bandwidth usage on every virtual host or directory or to restrict the number of simultaneous connections. The bandwidth control, for example, can be configured according to the criteria: origin of the connection, file extension, file size or user agent of the client. Example: LoadModule...
    by Liz Quilty at November 27th, 2009 at 09:11 am
  • Wordpress Update Script – 2.8.6 and Wordpress MU 2.8.5.2
    New Wordpress came out last Friday, Sorry about the delay updating the script. This script will update all instances of wordpress that are not the most current. Run it as root, it will make backups in /root/wp_upgrades of both databases and files in case things go wrong. It will determine if its a Wordpress or Wordpress Multi User and apply the correct fix. wget http://b.ri.mu/files/wordpress-upgrade-2.8.6.sh sh...
    by Liz Quilty at November 16th, 2009 at 08:11 am
  • Wordpress upgrade script
    There have been some interesting exploits out and about, and often sysadmins have a lot of wordpress installs going on the one machine. This can be problematic when it comes to upgrading multiple instances. So I posted a script up on the Rimuhosting blog that should fix this wget http://b.ri.mu/files/wordpress-upgrade-patched.sh sh wordpress-upgrade-patch.sh Original...
    by Liz Quilty at September 1st, 2009 at 09:09 pm