Tagging-Archive: server


Malware-Scanner ISPProtect Web Scanner

I want to introduce a malware scanner that really convinced me: ISPProtect Web Scanner. The scanner is designed for the monitoring of web pages and is distributed by the company ISPConfig UG, which also develops the OpenSource-Project ISPConfig. The different licenses are based on the desired use (only one server […]


versioning etc directory with etckeeper 2

The configuration directory / etc should be versioned for documentary reasons and for backup. All changes are visible at a glance and a previous state can be restored easily. In / etc are also security-related information. Therefore, care should be taken when transferring and backup the repository on encrypting and […]


change document root of mod_suexec

In mod_suexec, ‘document_root’ can not be changed because it is compiled directly. To change the default path of debian (/ var / www), you must either re-compile mod_suexec or even use the suexec-custom package. apt-get install apache2-suexec-custom After that, the directory can be changed in / etc/apache2/suexec/www-data: /srv/www public_html/php-fcgi # […]


gpg: decryption failed: No secret key 2

When decrypt a gpp-file (gpg-d file.gpg> file) i got the error-message “gpg: decryption failed: No secret key”. It’s funny, the key is certainly there. A simple chmod o + rw $ (tty) has helped. Apparently gpg has inside the su environment a few problems. Sure, you can also set the […]


using ncftp-client for background ftp-transfers

I use for my ftp backups always ncftspooler. It´s a part of NcFTP Clients, which runs as a daemon und moves on request files to ftp-server. The installation is very simple: wget ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ncftp-3.2.5-src.tar.bz2 tar xfj ncftp-3.2.5-src.tar.bz2 cd ncftp-3.2.5 ./configure make make install mkdir /root/.ncftp mkdir /root/.ncftp/spool To start ncftpspool simply […]