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Splunk Free: .htaccess Protection using Apache

Drew — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:29:06 +0000

You ever hear of Splunk? Splunk enables you to search and navigate all your logs and IT data in real time; logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. It's an awesome tool to make it easier to monitor and watch your log files. Unfortunately, Splunk is expensive. How expensive? Try $5000 a year, for the cheapest license. Here's the main problem; the free version of Splunk does not come with any user authentication, not even Admin authentication. This means that Read More »

Curing ‘Symbolic link not allowed’ (Apache 2.0)

Drew — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:19:39 +0000

Awhile back when trying to add a directory to Apache on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server, I ran into some issues. These issues, of course were the infamous 403 "Forbidden" error that your web barfs up when you try to access a server that is not publicly viewable, because of permission issues. I'm going to give you my scenario and explain how you can fix this issue, so that you don't have to go through an hour of throwing your hands up in disgust. The Scenario In our example, out DocumentRoot Read More »

How-To: Password Protect Apache Directories with .htaccess

Drew — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:17:54 +0000

Have you ever wanted to let someone download a file or image from your website, but didn't want to have the whole world know about, such as Google's great search engine spiders? The robot.txt file only goes so far, personally I'd rather password protect my directories if I don't want them crawled. It's a great way to set up realms that only the privileged few know about. I'll walk you through the very simple steps of doing so, and showing you what gets added on the server side. Grab Your Read More »