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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">FTP server is used to exchange files between computers over network . This guide helps you to setup ftp server on centos 7 . This guide contains configuration steps for both FTP and SFTP as well as user creation . Here i’ve used VSFTP package which is secure and less vulnerable .</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">1. </span>FTP Server<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">2. </span>SFTP Server<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">3. </span>User creation</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Setup FTP server on centos 7</span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="FTP"></a></span></h1>
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<strong style="color: #222222;">Step 1 :</strong><span style="color: #222222;"> Update your repository and install <b>VSFTPD </b>package .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; color: white; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;">[root@hackthesec ~]# yum check-update<br />[root@hackthesec ~]# yum -y install vsftpd</code><br /><strong style="color: #222222;">Step 2 </strong><strong style="color: #222222;">:</strong><span style="color: #222222;"> After installation you can find </span><strong><span style="color: red;">/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf</span></strong><span style="color: #222222;"> file which is the main configuration file for VSFTP.</span><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Take a backup copy before making changes .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">Now open the file and make changes as below</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">Find this line </span><strong><span style="color: red;">anonymous_enable=YES</span></strong><span style="color: #222222;"> ( Line no : 12 ) and change value to NO to disable anonymous FTP access.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Uncomment the below line ( Line no : 100 ) to restrict users to their home directory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and add the below lines at the end of the file to enable passive mode and allow chroot writable.</span><br />
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<br /><code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;"><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ~]# systemctl </span><span style="color: lime;">restart </span><span style="color: white;">vsftpd.service</span><br /><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ~]# </span><span style="color: lime;">systemctl enable vsftpd.service</span></code><br /><strong style="color: #222222;">Step 4 </strong><strong style="color: #222222;">:</strong><span style="color: #222222;"> Add FTP service in firewall to allow ftp ports .</span></div>
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<br /><code style="background-color: #0e0e0e; border-radius: 5px; display: block; font-family: Verdana, 'MS Sans Serif', sans-serif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; padding: 4px;"><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ~]# </span><span style="color: lime;">firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ftp</span><br /><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec ~]# firewall-cmd --reload</span></code><br /><strong style="color: #222222;">Step 5 </strong><strong style="color: #222222;">:</strong><span style="color: #222222;"> Setup SEinux to allow ftp access to the users home directories .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Now user dave can able to login ftp on port 21 .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">SFTP server</span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="SFTP"></a></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #222222;">SFTP ( Secure File Transfer Protocol ) is used to encrypt connections between clients and the FTP server. It is highly recommended to use SFTP because data is transferred over encrypted connection using SSH-tunnel on </span><span style="color: red;"><strong>port 22 </strong>.</span><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Basically we need openssh-server package to enable SFTP .</span><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Install openssh-server package, if its not already installed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">and add these lines below.</span><br />
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<strong>Step 10 </strong><strong>:</strong> Create user jack with /sbin/nologin shell and ftpaccess group</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Now assign root ownership for the home directory for chroot access and modify permission.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">Create a directory </span><strong style="color: #222222;">www</strong><span style="color: #222222;"> inside home directory for writing and modify ownership .</span><br />
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If you are going to use FTP and SFTP together in the same server, you should follow above steps while creating users . For existing users add them to ftpaccess and make below changes.</div>
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How to setup mail server on centos 7

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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet, Trebuchet MS, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 30px;"><u>Setup mail server on centos 7</u></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;">This article helps you to install and configure basic mail server on </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" style="color: #0f4884; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none;" title="Centos">Centos</a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px;"> 7. Here i have used Postfix for SMTP, Dovecot for POP/IMAP and Dovecot SASL for SMTP AUTH.</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Step 1 : Assign hostname for the server using the below command</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Step 2 : Make a host entry with your IP in </span><span style="color: #990000;"><b>/etc/hosts</b> </span><span style="color: #222222;">file.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Step 3 : Now start installing packages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">After package installation continue with postfix configuration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: trebuchet, trebuchet ms, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 30px;"><b><u>Step 2 : Postfix configuration</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">First create SSL certificate for encryption.</span></span></div>
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<pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec ~]# mkdir /etc/postfix/ssl
[root@</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;">hackthesec</span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;"> ~]# cd /etc/postfix/ssl</span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;">hackthesec</span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;"> ssl]# openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 2048</span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;">hackthesec</span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;"> ssl]# openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.insecure</span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;">hackthesec</span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;"> ssl]# mv server.key server.key.secure</span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">[root@</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;">hackthesec</span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 15.6px;"> ssl]# mv server.key.insecure server.key</span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Leave blank for </span><b><span style="color: #990000;">A challenge password []</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> value in the below step.</span></span></span></div>
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[root@hackthesec ssl]# openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt</span></span></span></pre>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Find and uncomment the below lines</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div>
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#mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost #--> line no 164</span></span></pre>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">and add below lines at the end of the file. change <b>myhostname </b>and <b>mydomain </b>values with yours and <b>home_mailbox</b> value to your desired directory. Here it will store mails in the users home directory (Eg: /home/john/mail ).</span></span></div>
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mydomain = hackthesec.co.in
myorigin = $mydomain
home_mailbox = mail/
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
inet_interfaces = all
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/server.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/server.crt
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom</pre>
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  -o syslog_name=postfix/submission
  -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
  -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
  -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
smtps     inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
  -o syslog_name=postfix/smtps
  -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
  -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
  -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
Now check the configuration using postfix check command.
Step 7 : Now configure Dovecot SASL for SMTP Auth. Open /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf file, find “# Postfix smtp-auth” line ( line no:95 ) and add the below lines.
# Postfix smtp-auth
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Step 7 : Now configure Dovecot SASL for SMTP Auth. Open <b><span style="color: #990000;">/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf</span></b> file, find "<b><span style="color: #990000;"># Postfix smtp-auth</span></b>" line ( line no:95 ) and add the below lines.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: lime;">unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {mode = 0660
</span><span style="color: white;">user = postfix
group = postfix
}</span></span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Step 8 : Open </span><b><span style="color: #990000;">/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> file, find "<b>auth_mechanisms = plain</b>" ( Line no: 100 ) and add login to the value like below.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Step 9 : Postfix configuration is over. Now restart both postfix and dovecot services and enable auto start</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: white;">[root@mail ~]# systemctl enable postfix
</span><span style="color: lime;">[root@mail ~]# systemctl restart dovecot
</span><span style="color: orange;">[root@mail ~]# systemctl enable dovecot</span></span></span></pre>
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Trying 172.27.0.51...
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;"><a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/" target="_blank">Phpmyadmin</a> is an opensource tool to manage <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Mysql" target="_blank">MySQL</a> database using web browser.</span></div>
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it can perform almost all tasks such as creating,deleting,modifying databases,users,tables and fields .</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This guide helps you to install phpmyadmin on <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" target="_blank">centos 7</a>. it contains step by step installation through YUM using EPEL repository.</span></span></span></div>
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Before starting phpmyadmin installation, You must setup LAMP server on your <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/01/how-to-install-lamp-apache-24-mysql-56.html" target="_blank">centos 7</a> server. Copy and paste below command in terminal for quick setup . At the end, you need to provide some inputs .</div>
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By default, centos 7 repository does not contains phpmyadmin package. we need to enable EPEL repository. Find the latest EPEL for centos 7 from <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/01/how-to-install-epel-repo-on-centos-and.html" target="_blank">EPEL for Centos 7</a></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 34px;">Step 4: </span><span style="font-family: "roboto slab";"><span style="line-height: 34px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">After installation, Open </span><span style="color: red;">/etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> file ( Apache config file for phpmyadmin ) and edit as follows.</span></span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "roboto slab"; line-height: 34px;">Find these lines . ( Found 2 times )</span></h2>
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     <RequireAny>
       Require ip 127.0.0.1
       Require ip ::1
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    <RequireAny>
      # Require ip 127.0.0.1
      # Require ip ::1
      Require all granted
    </RequireAny></span></pre>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 34px;">Step 5: </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "roboto slab";"><span style="line-height: 34px;">Restart Apache service.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now open http://serverIP/phpmyadmin in your browser. You can login using root as username and mysql root password .</span></div>
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How to Force Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess

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<span style="color: #990000;">Redirect to www or non-www in Htaccess</span></h2>
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For <b>SEO purposes</b> this is good practice to keep your website urls either with www or without www only. In this tutorial you will learn how to force redirect to <b>www</b> or non-www url only. 301 status code tells search engines that the page has permanently moved to a new location.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 34px;">Force Redirect to WWW or Non-WWW</span></div>
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Login to server with admin privileges and navigate to document root of your website. Now create a .htaccess file using one of below content as per your requirements.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Force non-www to www</span></h3>
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This will force url as www.example.com, this will always add www in url either you accessed it with or witout www.</div>
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Force www to non-www</span></h3>
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This will force url as example.com, this will always remove www from url, you either accessed it with or witout www.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enable .htaccess to Work</span></h2>
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Before using <b>.htaccess</b>, make sure your <b>.htaccess</b> is enabled to use in Apache. To enable this add following settings under your domains VirtualHost.</div>
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         Allowoverride all
    </Directory>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enable Apache Rewrite Module</span></h2>
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Also make sure Apache <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rewrite</a> module is enabled. If not use the following command to enable module.</div>
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How to Setup X11VNC Server on Ubuntu & LinuxMint

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<span style="color: #cc0000;">X11VNC Server on Ubuntu,LinuxMint & Debian</span></h2>
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<b>X11VNC</b> can be a better remote support software for you. This tutorial will help you to setup x11vnc server on your <b><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Ubuntu" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/LinuxMint" target="_blank">LinuxMint</a> & <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Debian" target="_blank">Debian</a></b> system and connect using vnc viewer from client system.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bolder; line-height: 34px;">Install X11VNC</span></div>
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X11vnc packages are available under default repositories, So just update default repositories and install.</div>
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$ sudo apt-get </span><span style="color: lime;">install x11vnc</span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Create Password</span></h2>
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Now create a password to connect using vnc viewer from client system.</div>
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Enter VNC password: </span><orange><span style="color: lime;">*********</span></orange><span style="color: white;">
Verify password: </span><orange><span style="color: lime;">********* </span></orange><orange style="color: orange;"> </orange><span style="color: white;">  
Write password to /home/rahul/.vnc/passwd?  [y]/n </span><orange><span style="color: lime;">y</span></orange><span style="color: white;">
Password written to: /home/rahul/.vnc/passwd</span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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Start X11VNC Server</h2>
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After successful installation of x11vnc server on your system. Let’s start it using following command. Change the parameters as per your setup.</div>
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Finally setup the auto start of x11vnc server on system boot. Create a<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;">x11vnc.conf</span> file under /etc/init/ directory using following content.</div>
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description "<span style="color: lime;">x11vnc</span>"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [^2345]

console log

respawn
respawn limit 20 5

exec /usr/bin/x11vnc -auth guess -forever -loop -noxdamage -repeat -rfbauth /home/rahul/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5900 -shared<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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How to Install Let's Encrypt Free SSL Certificate On Your Website

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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Let's Encrypt Free SSL Certificate</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Another Big Milestone – Let's Encrypt is now offering Free HTTPS certificates to everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Let's Encrypt has opened to the public, allowing anyone to obtain Free SSL/TLS (Secure </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security) certificates for their web servers and to set up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">HTTPS websites in a few simple steps (mentioned below).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Let's Encrypt</b> – an initiative run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) – is a new, free, and open certificate authority recognized by all major browsers, including Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Free SSL Certification Authority is now in public beta after testing a trial among a select group of volunteers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><u><b>Why Let's Encrypt?</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Let's Encrypt promised to offer a certificate authority (CA) which is:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Free</b> – no charge for HTTPS certs.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Automatic</b> – the installation, configuration as well as the renewal of the certificates do not require any administrator action.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Secure</b> – the team is committed to being a model of best practice in their own operations.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Cooperative</b> – Let's Encrypt is managed by a multi-stakeholder organization and exists to benefit the community, not any of the consortium members.</span></li>
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<b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">How to Install Let's Encrypt Free SSL Certificate</span></u></b><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">First of all, let's say you want to get a certificate for example.com. To run the installation, you must have root access to your example.com web server.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">To Generate and Install Let's Encrypt Free SSL Certificate, you must first download and run the Let's Encrypt client application.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">To install Let's Encrypt Free SSL certificate follow these Steps:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab";"><span style="line-height: 28px;">Step 1: Login to your 'example.com' web server using SSH with root access.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab"; line-height: 28px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Step 2: To install the Git version control system, type the following command:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Step 3: Then download and install the latest version of Let's Encrypt Client application, type the following commands:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/</span><span style="color: lime;">letsencrypt</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">cd </span><span style="color: lime;">letsencrypt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Step 4: Once the installation starts, press Enter to accept the agreement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Step 5: Then press Enter to specify the server name manually in the text box (<span style="color: red;">for example,www.example.com</span>) and then press Enter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Step 6: Next, enter your email address, where you can receive messages from Let's Encrypt and to recover lost keys, and then press Enter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Step 7: Review the 'Terms of Service,' and then press Enter to generate and install the SSL certificate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Once the installation completes, you'll receive a '<span style="color: lime;">Congratulation</span>' message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>How to Configure Nginx/<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Apache" target="_blank">Apache</a> for Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">By default, Nginx or Apache web servers are not configured to how to use your new certificates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For example, in case of Nginx: To use the installed SSL certificate, you need to edit Nginx configuration file. Type the following command to open Nginx configuration file:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Within that file, add the following lines.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">server{</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">listen 443 ssl;</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">server_name www.example.com;</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/fullchain.pem;</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/.wwwexample.com/privkey.pem;</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">…</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">}</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "roboto slab"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">Save the file, and just restart your Nginx web server, using the following command:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">That's it! Check complete <a href="https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">documentation</a> here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Congratulation you have successfully installed SSL certificate for your example.com domain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Note : <span style="color: red;">How to Renew Let's Encrypt Free SSL Certificate:</span></b><span style="color: red;"> It is important to note that the beta version of</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Let's Encrypt issues certificates that expire after 90 days. So, to renew your SSL certificate, you need</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">to run the letsencrypt-auto script again after expiration.</span></span><br />
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How to Enable HTTP/2.0 in Apache

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<span style="color: #990000;">Enable HTTP/2.0 in Apache</span></h2>
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HTTP/2 (HTTP/2.0) is the major upgrade over older version HTTP/1.1 protocol.HTTP/1 was released in 1997 and after a long time the HTTP/2 is released in 2015. HTTP/2 protocol is based on SPDY (generally known as speedy). Some of the key improvements of HTTP/2 are:</div>
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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="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Server push:</span> Server will pro-actively sent components to clients, So clients doesn’t need to wait for sending requests to server.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Multiplexing:</span> Reducing number of active connection by bundling multiple HTTP requests from client and sent to server.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Encryption</span>: efficiently use to encryption with TLS protocol in HTTP/2 over HTTP/1.1.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HTTP header compression:</span> Compressed headers will reduce the overhead of additional requests to web server.</li>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Install or Update Apache</span></h2>
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HTTP/2 protocol supported over <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;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Apache" target="_blank">Apache</a> version >=2.4.17</span>. So make sure that your <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Apache" target="_blank">Apache</a> version supporting HTTP/2 protocol. If you have not installed Apache or using older version upgrade it first. Use the following commands to add PPA for installing latest Apache2 version on your Ubuntu system.</div>
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2
$ sudo </span><span style="color: lime;">apt-get</span><span style="color: white;"> update
$ sudo apt-get install </span><span style="color: lime;">apache2</span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Verify Apache Version</span></h2>
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After successful installation of <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Apache" target="_blank">Apache2</a> web server on your system, make sure you have Apache >=2.4.17, Earlier version does not supports HTTP/2 protocol.</div>
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Server version: </span><span style="color: lime;">Apache/2.4.17 (Ubuntu)</span><span style="color: white;">
Server built:   2015-11-05T00:00:00</span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enable HTTP/2 in <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Apache" target="_blank">Apache</a></span></h2>
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HTTP/2 protocol requires SSL/TLS virtual hosts. You can’t use HTTP/2 protocol without SSL/TLS enabled websites. Now edit your website VirtualHost and add <orange>http2</orange> keyword in listen section.</div>
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$ sudo service apache2 restart<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Verify HTTP/2</span></h2>
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Now configure a VirtualHost with SSL for your domain and use following online tool for testing HTTP/2 support on your website.</div>
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<span style="color: red; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://tools.keycdn.com/http2-test" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://tools.keycdn.com/http2-test</a><br /><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/" target="_blank">Hack The Security</a><br /><a href="https://www.twitter.com/hackthesecurity" target="_blank">Hack The Security Twitter</a><br /><a href="http://facebook.com/htsecu" target="_blank">Hack The Security Facebook</a></span></div>
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