Securing Apache HTTP servers on Linux
In this post, we are going to increase the security of the server by reducing the information shared by the server to the client. By itself it is not an active protection such as a firewall or any kind of instruction prevention system. Although Apache does offers various modules such as the mod_security and mod_evasive. But we won’t focus on that part in this post. Well, when talking about security, there are tons of other mechanism to be installed and considered anyway. #1 Disable server banners When you tell the exact version number of your server software, a...