Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:41:31 -0500 From: Chris Petrovitch <cpetrovi@purdue.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My first public website - how to secure it for use? Message-ID: <4331EFAB.6070001@purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050921172143.7430.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <4331A3EA.8030502@gmail.com> <20050921172143.7430.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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Gerard Seibert wrote: >On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:18:18 -0700, Derrill Guilbert <derrill@gmail.com> >Subject: My first public website - how to secure it for use? >Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > >>I am grateful for all the assistance I've received to date from this >>list ... I'm going through a bunch of baptism by fire stuff on FreeBSD - >>I've used it for basic file sharing, intranet stuff, EASY stuff before. >>Now, however, I keep getting asked for more robust things. >> >>We have been having some ... disagreements with our webhost. Basically, >>we want him to enable password protection on a site, and he doesn't want >>to figure out how to do it. I emailed him everything he needs, but he >>can't be arsed, apparently. I even asked him to email me his config file >>and I'd update it and send it back - he could then diff it and then >>update it based on my changes. What would it be, five lines? 10? It >>wouldn't be much, based on apache's site. Still, no response. >> >>Because of our unique relationship with him, my boss feels like the best >>alternative for now would be having me put up a webserver based on >>FreeBSD. It'll need PHP and MySQL, which I think I can figure out. >> >>I've run apache sites before - 1996 - 2000 I was part of the IT staff of >>a small website building/hosting company. However, I've never set a box >>up for internet use myself, and the internet is a vastly different >>(read: more hostile) place than it was then. This box is basically going >>to be on its own on the internet. Is it enough to run a firewall like pf >>and go through the steps outlined at >>http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/security/harden.php before >>putting it up to be assaulted? >> >>Derrill >> >> > > >***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** >On 9/21/2005 5:21:43 PM, Gerard Seibert Replied: > >Are you sure about the URL? I cannot seem to get it to connect. > > hum... it seems http://www.bsdguides.com/ is down?
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