d2's lair

rpaf is for backend Apache servers what mod_proxy_add_forward is for frontend Apache servers. It does excactly the opposite of mod_proxy_add_forward written by Ask Bjørn Hansen. It will also work with mod_proxy in Apache starting with release 1.3.25 and mod_proxy that is distributed with Apache2 from version 2.0.36. It changes the remote address of the client [...]

When restarting Apache2 it’s possible to hit this error which reveals only in error.log. From console’s point of view, restart/start/stop looks OK, but Apache2 won’t come up ad won’t bind to any port. First check if you have enough space (# df -h) and then study logs and strace output: # tail -10 f /var/log/apache2/error.log [...]

From time to time I see some scanning on my website. This usualy dies after 5 or so minutes, but it’s pretty annoying and space-consuming so I thought recently that it would be nice to get rid of those scans. An example – let say – attack looks like: ** IP ** – - [02/Jun/2010:14:35:59 [...]