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How to Install Tomcat 7.0.65 Server on Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint

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Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_66-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.66-b17, mixed mode)
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In case you do not have java installed use link: <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/01/how-to-install-java-8-jdk-8u66-on.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Install JAVA 8 on Ubuntu</a></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 2: Download Tomcat 7 Archive</span></h2>
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After configuring JAVA properly on your system, let’s download Apache tomcat archive file from Apache official site using <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi</a> or use the following command to download Tomcat 7.0.65 from Apache server.</div>
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$ wget http://www.us.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.65/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.65.tar.gz<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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After competed download extract archive file in /opt directory. You may change this location as per your setup.</div>
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$ mv apache-tomcat-7.0.65 tomcat7</span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 3: Setup Environment Variable</span></h2>
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Before starting Tomcat, Configure environment variables by adding entry in ~/.bashrc file, So that system environment can set on system bootup with the following command.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 4: Start Tomcat</span></h2>
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After completing all above configuration, Lets use below command to start Tomcat. There are no need to compile its source. Tomcat by default start on port 8080, So make sure no other application using the same port.</div>
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$ sudo ./bin/startup.sh
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 5: Access Tomcat</span></h2>
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Tomcat server works on port 8080 default. Access tomcat on web browser by connecting your server on port 8080.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 6: Setup User Accounts</span></span></h5>
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Finally we need to create user accounts to secure and access admin/manager pages. Edit <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">conf/tomcat-users.xml</span> file in your editor and paste inside <tomcat-users> </tomcat-users> tags.</div>
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</span><span style="color: white;"><role rolename="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">manager-gui</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" />
<user username="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">manager</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" password="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">_SECRET_PASSWORD_</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" roles="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">manager-gui</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" />

</span><span style="color: red;"><green># user admin can access manager and admin section both.</green>
</span><span style="color: white;"><role rolename="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">admin-gui</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" />
<user username="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">admin</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" password="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">_SECRET_PASSWORD_</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" roles="</span><orange><span style="color: lime;">manager-gui,admin-gui</span></orange><span style="color: white;">" /></span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 7: Create Tomcat7 Init Script</span></h5>
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Create a init file /etc/init.d/tomcat7 using following content.</div>
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### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:        tomcat7
# Required-Start:  $network
# Required-Stop:   $network
# Default-Start:   2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:    0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start/Stop Tomcat server
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PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

start() {
 sh /opt/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh
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stop() {
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  start) start;;
  stop)  stop;;
  restart) stop; start;;
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Now execute following commands to set proper permissions and symbolic links for init script.</div>
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$ update-rc.d tomcat7 defaults</pre>
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How to Install Tomcat 7.0.65 Server on Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint

Tomcat 7.0.65 Server on Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint Apache Tomcat is a opensource webserver product of Apache Foundation like Apach...

How To Enable or Disable CGI Scripts in Apache 2.4

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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint Users –</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ubuntu, Debian, LinuxMint and other Debian derivatives use following command to enable CGI module. This command creates a soft links of module configuration file to <b>/etc/apache2/mod-enabled/</b> directory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After enabling CGI modules in Apache configuration you need to restart Apache service on your system for changes take effect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">2. Disable CGI Module in Apache</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We recommend to keep CGI disabled on your server until its recommended for your server. CGI scripts are are used by hackers to attack on servers. Use below options to disable cgi script on your Apache server.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">CentOS, RHEL & Fedora Users –</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora and other rpm based distributions rename<span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/XX-cgi.conf</span> configuration file like below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint Users –</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ubuntu, Debian, LinuxMint and other Debian derivatives use following command to disable CGI module.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After disabling CGI modules you need to restart Apache service on your system for changes take effect.</span></div>
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Reference:-<br /><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html</a></span></div>
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How To Enable or Disable CGI Scripts in Apache 2.4

How To Enable or Disable CGI Scripts in Apache 2.4 Apache Module mod_cgi/mod_cgid is responsible for handling of CGI Scripts. for w...

What is ModSecurity and How to Install with Apache on CentOS/RHEL

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<span style="color: #660000;">HWhat is ModSecurity and How to Install with Apache on CentOS/RHEL</span></h2>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Filtered Request:</span> The incoming HTTP Request or analyzed by the ModSecurity Module before passing it to the Web Service, these request are compared against a group of predefined rules to take the appropriate action.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anti-Evasion Techniques:</span> Routes and Parameters are normalized before the analysis to prevent evasion techniques.</span></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Windows the \ and / are treated the same</span></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Real Time Monitoring:</span> Besides logging all the HTTP Traffic, ModSecurity can monitor traffic in real time to detect attacks, meaning it works as an intrusion detection tool.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From Version 2 ModSecurity</span> added several additional functionality that are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ModSecurity can be deployed and integrated in our current Web Servers infrastructure, meaning that we do not have to modify our internal Network, we don’t add any point of failure, we can benefit from load balancing and scalability and we would not have any issues with compress or encrypted Data.<br />ModSecurity is a valuable security tool and have proven to be effective. If we want to protect our web applications this is a tool the deserves your attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To install ModSecurity in a Linux Server running Centos or RHEL Derivative with the Apache web Service, we follow these steps as the root user.</span></div>
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Step 1: Install the EPEL Repository</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly add the EPEL rpm repository in your system using following command.</span></div>
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Step 2: Install ModSecurity and Predefined Rules</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s install mod_security apache modules with predefined rules of mod_security.</span></div>
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Step 3: Activate the Module</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edit ModSecurity configuration file <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_security.conf</span> and look for the<span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SecRuleEngine</span> Directive on the File and configured with the Desired Value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since we want to Intercept and Block Attacks we configure it with <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On</span>.</span></div>
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Step 4: Restart Apache and Check</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now we restart the apache web services</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To confirm that our web application firewall is working we should see something like this in our Apache error logs.</span></div>
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[Sat Mar15 16 09:20:58 2014] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache/2.7.3 (http://www.modsecurity.org/) configured.
[Sat Mar15 16 09:20:58 2014] [notice] ModSecurity: APR compiled version=”1.3.9″; loaded version=”1.3.9″
[Sat Mar15 16 09:20:58 2014] [notice] ModSecurity: PCRE compiled version=”7.8 “; loaded version=”7.8 2008-09-05″
[Sat Mar15 16 09:20:58 2014] [notice] ModSecurity: LUA compiled version=”Lua 5.1″
[Sat Mar15 16 09:20:58 2014] [notice] ModSecurity: LIBXML compiled version=”2.7.6″
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Important files to Remember</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">References:<br /><a href="https://www.modsecurity.org/" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.modsecurity.org/</a><br /><a href="https://www.modsecurity.org/projects/modsecurity/apache/index.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.modsecurity.org/projects/modsecurity/apache/index.html</a></span></div>
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What is ModSecurity and How to Install with Apache on CentOS/RHEL

HWhat is ModSecurity and How to Install with Apache on CentOS/RHEL ModSecurity is a Web Application Firewall that execute as a Module ...

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<span style="color: red;">Best Security Tips for LAMP Stack (Apache, MySQL and PHP) on Linux</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of new system administrators forgot to apply security, when configuring web hosting environment for production use with Apache, MySQL and PHP. I am trying to include all those security tips which we must be considered while preparing a new system for production use or any existing LAMP setup.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the configuration changes are used in this article will be updated in following configuration files as per your operating systems. In some cases configuration files path may change. So make change in appropriate files. After making changes restart related services to change take effect.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/01/how-to-install-php-54-apache-22-and.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Install Apache2, MySQL and PHP5 on Ubuntu and Debian System</span></a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For CentOS, RedHat & Fedora:</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apache:</span> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf<br /><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PHP:</span> /etc/php.ini<br /><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MySQL:</span> /etc/my.cnf</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">1. Hiding Version and OS Identity (Apache)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ServerTokens</span> directive controls whether Server response header field which is sent back to clients. The ServerSignature configures the footer on server-generated documents. Edit Apache configuration file and update following directives as following.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">2. Disable Directory Listing (Apache)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If directory listing is enabled in Apache. Then all the files and directories list will be shown on web page if no default document exists. Add following configuration in Apache to disable directory listing server wide.</span></div>
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    Options <orange style="color: orange;">-Indexes </orange>
</Directory>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After that you can enable listing per directory basis if required.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">3. Restricting File and Directory Access (Apache)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Restricting access on basis of Directory, File and Location in Apache.</span></div>
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Restrict Directory</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To restrict directory and files access from users, It will only allowed the ips are defined with Allow from.</span></div>
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    Order <orange style="color: orange;">Deny,Allow</orange>
    Deny from <orange style="color: orange;">all</orange>
    Allow from <orange style="color: orange;">192.168.0.0/24</orange>
    Allow from <orange style="color: orange;">.hackthesec.co.in</orange>
</Directory>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can also restrict specific file using File directive like below.</span></div>
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    Order <orange style="color: orange;">deny,allow</orange>
    Deny from <orange style="color: orange;">all</orange>
</File>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Restrict Location</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Location directive limits the scope of the enclosed directives by URL.</span></div>
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    Order <orange style="color: orange;">Deny,Allow</orange>
    Deny from <orange style="color: orange;">all</orange>
    Allow from <orange style="color: orange;">192.168.0.0/24</orange>
    Allow from <orange style="color: orange;">.hackthesec.co.in</orange>
</Location>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">4. Disable Server Side Includes and CGI Execution (Apache)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can simply disable server-side includes and CGI execution by defining directory tag. Add below in Apache virtual host configuration file.</span></div>
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   Options <orange style="color: orange;">-Includes -ExecCGI</orange>
</Directory>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">5. Restrict PHP Information Leakage (PHP)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Default PHP installation exposes to the world that PHP is installed on the server, which includes the PHP version within the HTTP header (Eg:, X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.20). Read More</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To hide this values from header edit php.ini and update below directive to Off</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">6. Disable Remote Code Execution (PHP)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If allow_url_fopen is enabled on your setup, It allows ile functions like file_get_contents() and the include and require statements which can retrieve data from http or ftp remote locations and execute their code.</span></div>
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 allow_url_include=<orange style="color: orange;">Off</orange>
 
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">7. Disabling Dangerous PHP Functions (PHP)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can disable any php function using disable_functions directive in php configuration file. Disable all the functions which can be harmful and not used in applications.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">8. Limit PHP Access To File System (PHP)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The open_basedir directive set the directories from which PHP is allowed to access files</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">9. Disable Unused PHP Modules (PHP)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PHP supports “Dynamic Extensions” to load in php environment. We can disable any unused module to load in system by changing configuration file name.</span></div>
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# mv oci8.ini oci8.ini.disable

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<span style="color: #0b5394;">10. Enable Limits in PHP (PHP)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To allow users to upload files of maximum size, update following configuration value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maximum execution time of each script</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data</span></div>
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11. Restrict Remote MySQL Access (MySQL)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If your application environment do not required to access database remotely, then disable all remote connections for database server. The easier way to do it force MySQL server to listen only on 127.0.0.1 (localhost).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edit MySQL configuration file and update following value.</span></div>
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12. Disable use of LOCAL INFILE (MySQL)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enabling LOCAL INFILE can be dangerous for you system security. If LOCAL INFILE is enabled on server, a user can load any file ( like /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow ) to a table easily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To disable this edit MySQL configuration file and add following value under [mysqld] section.</span></div>
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local-infile=<orange style="color: orange;">0</orange>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">13. Create Application Specific User in MySQL (MySQL)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not use mysql ‘root’ user for accessing database through application. It can be dangerous for your system. So make sure to create and use application specific user with limited access on application database only. To create mysql account use following command.</span></div>
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mysql> CREATE USER '<orange style="color: orange;">myusr</orange>'@'<orange style="color: orange;">localhost</orange>' IDENTIFIED BY '<orange style="color: orange;">password</orange>';
mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON <orange style="color: orange;">mydb</orange>.* TO '<orange style="color: orange;">myusr</orange>'@'<orange style="color: orange;">localhost</orange>' IDENTIFIED BY '<orange style="color: orange;">password</orange>';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">14. Improve Security with mysql_secure_installation (MySQL)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After installing MySQL mysql_secure_installation command is very useful for securing MySQL server. This command will also enable password protection on root user.</span></div>
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"Only required output is showing below. In actual you will see more output on-screen"

Change the root password? [Y/n] <orange style="color: orange;">y</orange>
New password: **********
Re-enter new password: **********

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <orange style="color: orange;">y</orange>
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <orange style="color: orange;">y</orange>
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <orange style="color: orange;">y</orange>
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] <orange style="color: orange;">y</orange>

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PHP <orange style="color: orange;">5.4.38</orange> (cli) (built: Feb 18 2015 16:36:53)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

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Server version: <orange style="color: orange;">Apache/2.4.6</orange> (CentOS)
Server built:   Jan 12 2015 13:22:31
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mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib <orange style="color: orange;">5.6.23</orange>, for Linux (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now you have successfully configured LAMP setup on your CentOS or RedHat 7 system.</span></div>
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