On 8/29/2011 3:25 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 13:35 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
For light use you could drop in VMware server or player or virtualbox without much effect on the current system. It shouldn't be necessary, though, unless you'd like to install otherwise conflicting rpm packages or give root access to someone on the virtual server only.
I've use Virtual Box successfully for Windoze 98 to run Ami Pro 3.1.
So why can't you do that for your new virtualhost instead of running on a different IP?
A mentally deranged lunatic has sent 30,000+ wrong URLs to a tiny web site. Its started about 5 August but significantly escalated on 22 August.
My Apache routine can add the IPs to iptables and block them. Since 22 August the lunatic has used over 100 different IPs from around the world to send those wrong URLs which always seem to include one of these:-
forgotten_password.php
login.php
contact.php
If you can get a good list of what is requested, such as the one started above, and 'if' none of those pages exist, you can use modrewrite to redirect them to 127.0.0.1. :) Effectively sending the request back to themselves. That irritates them. Can be done on a per domain basis or serverwide for those regular attempts into what might exist on any server. For instance, I regularly see phpmyadmin references. I don't run that on any servers, but they come looking.
John Hinton