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Creating a secure WordPress install

10/30/2007 – 5:23 pm

Over on BlogSecurity, there’s a whitepaper on How to create a secure WordPress install. It covers several areas, including MySQL setup, WordPress user configuration, Apache protection of directories, and some useful plugins. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Security, WordPress | Also tagged access, hacking, hardening, ids, MySQL, plugin, Plugins, Security, WordPress | Comments (25)

glTail: Realtime Logfile Visualization

10/11/2007 – 3:50 pm

This screenshot shows how glTail visualizes a comment spam attack in my configuration.

A few days ago, in my usual daily link browsing, I ran across a link to something called “glTail“, which was described as “realtime logfile visualization”. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Open Source, Ruby, Servers, WordPress | Also tagged Graphics, logs, monitoring, Ruby, Servers, Spam, sysadmin, tools, visualization, WordPress | Comments (4)

Downtime

2/7/2006 – 10:39 am

Some of you might have noticed that my site had some downtime over the weekend, and into Monday night. I had upgraded MySQL from version 3.23.x to version 5.0 last week. Everything seemed fine at the time, but when the server ran some maintenance tasks on Saturday night, it turned up some mismatched library versions between PHP and MySQL. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in MySQL, Servers | Also tagged PHP, this-site | Comments (7)

Zend Core for IBM

6/8/2005 – 9:46 am

Cool, IBM and Zend have announced Zend Core for IBM. Basically, it’s an officially supported version of PHP with tight integration into IBM’s DB2 and Cloudscape database servers, and some web services stuff. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Linux, News, Software, Tech | Also tagged IBM, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Programming, Ruby, Web, WebSphere, Zend | Comments (2)

Server update

2/1/2005 – 9:57 pm

Earlier today, I upgraded the webserver on this box to the latest versions of Apache, PHP, mod_ssl, and a few other things. I still need to go back and do some tweaking, since the a lot of configuration file paths were different from my previous compiles. [...]