Setup a Production CentOS LAMP Web Server

Overview This article explains how to configure a production web server with CentOS Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.  It will also explain how to harden the system to protect from typical intrusions.  All steps are required unless otherwise stated as…

How to stop people from viewing directory content on an Apache web server

Let’s say you have the following files in your root directory: /public_html/ – FileA.txt – FileB.jpg – FileC.doc By default, Apache will look for an index.htm or index.php to serve the the user if they navigated to: http://www.example.com/ If those…

Setting up a Test Bench Web Server With Apache, PHP, MySQL, and More on Windows

Create a Website Directory This is the directory in which your websites will be stored. Create the main directory (“C:/websites”) Create a subdirectory for each website (“C:/websites/example”) Create a subdirectory for the live website content (“C:/websites/example/online”) Install Apache Go to…