[CentOS] Web server in a sandbox?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 11 18:11:53 UTC 2009


On Friday 11 September 2009 17:42:32 Les Mikesell wrote:
> If you have a typical firewalled LAN with private addresses, just run 
> the wiki there instead of on a machine that can be accessed from the 
> internet and you won't have to worry about it.  Wiki's are most useful 
> if you can make them easily accessible to everyone who might use the 
> information and a LAN-only connection may make it possible to avoid any 
> other restrictions.   If you need an internet-facing wiki, you have to 
> be much more careful, though.  Since the point is to allow easy 
> modification and uploads they are very likely targets for 
> vulnerabilities and you have to keep the code up to date.
> 
Hi, Les.  Yes, I understand that.  I don't have any need for that, so I'm not 
prepared to go to those lengths.  I'll keep it within the LAN if I do it at 
all.

The next step is to talk to the people who control the 'real' site, and see 
whether they think this could be helpful or not.

Anne
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