Installation —————- PNP is an addon for the Nagios Network Monitoring System. PNP provides easy to use, easy to configure RRDTools based performance charts feeded by the performance data output of the Nagios Plugins. To install this, 1. Download the latest version of pnp4nagios source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnp4nagios/ 2. Untar it and cd into the extracted … Read more
Clients who use fail2ban can block the bruteforce attack on wp-login.php and joomala admin using the below details. In /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf add the below details [wordpress-wp-login] enabled = true port = http,https action = iptables[name=WP, port=http, protocol=tcp] sendmail-whois[name=wordpress-wp-login, [email protected]] filter = wordpress-wp-login logpath = /var/www/vhosts/*/statistics/logs/access_log maxretry = 3 [joomla-admin-index] enabled = true port = http,https action … Read more
I have seen many people warn customers about a few minutes of downtime while running EasyApache on their servers. So they always suggest to run it is off-peak hours. Though it is not recommend to recompile such mission critical stuff during peak traffic hours ( which may put some server load as well ) it … Read more
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private … Read more
The new release is added with mailing function to send report to the admin.
You can update your plugin by clicking the “Update” button (which is in disabled state, and appear only if an update is available) appear on your home page of the plugin.
Last day I had a strange issue with ftp icon in cpanel accounts. Every cpanel account is missing the ftp related icons. In such situation, please follow the below steps 1. Double check whether “Ftp Account Manager” and “Ftp Settings” are enabled in the feature list used by the package assigned to the account. 2. … Read more
It is always a nuisance when unnecessary bots start hitting your website. It can increase CPU load on your server and may cause MySQL overhead as well, if your website driven by any database. Though the bot access says to be controlled using robots.txt files, most malicious bots do not honor rules defined in robots.txt file. The most reputed … Read more
I have noticed many users are reporting miscellaneous issues ( like PHP blank pages ) after switching to additional PHPs. Even many of them could not get phpinfo() working on their custom PHP versions. It is unusual and once ntPHPSelector is installed properly on your server, it should server without any problem. So the first thing you should ensure … Read more
ntPHPselector plugin allows user to select preferred PHP version per directory on the same domain.
We have noticed that the script failing in cPanel servers with Additional home directories like “/home2” and “/home3”. The issue is fixed and new version 2.0.1 is released. Please use the following script to update the changes.
ModSecurity : ModSecurity is an open source web application firewall. Working embedded in the web server, or standalone as a network appliance, it detects and prevents attacks against web applications.
In order to use mod_security, you need to turn on EPEL repo under CentOS / RHEL Linux.
RHEL 5.x / CentOS 5.x Users
Type the following command as root user to install repo:
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
RHEL 6.x / CentOS 6.x Users
Type the following command as root user to install repo:
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Once repo is turned on, type the following command to install ModSecurity: