After installing LiteSpeed in our server, new uploads in WordPress websites (wp-content/uploads directory) are showing “nobody” permissions. If switched back to Apache, uploads work fine and are uploaded under the correct user. Error log...
To generate a sendmail configuration file you must edit the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc (make a copy of it first for future reference). This file is used to generate the sendmail.cf file which is the main sendmail configuration...
During a rutine malware cleanup a file named hax.html caught my attention. On the outside the file was a simple “you’re hacked page” that looked like this: 407 Authentic Exploit Shell But with a POST method sent to it a nice little...
If you receive the following error message in the /var/log/messages file while restarting the pure-ftpd service, the problem is in the ftp configuration file at /etc/pure-ftpd.conf pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Configuration error: Illegal load limit: 0...
Here is a list of the most commanly used Linux commands for performance monitoring and debugging that will be helpful when you are working on Linux environment. This list is not comprehensive or authoritative by any means. However, this list has...
The Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance page is visible when WordPress core, theme and/or plugin updates are running. But from time to time WordPress updates break and when that happens WordPress stucks in maintenance mode. To fix this...
There’s a lot of stuff out there about SQL injection attacks but there’s not much that will help you figure out how to stop these attacks from occurring. First, let’s talk about what a SQL Injection Attack really is. Some people...
Each application taht uses your SQL Server database creates a connection on the database and this connection continues unless the session is killed or terminated privately within the application. A similar connection is established even for each...