[CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

[Always Learning]

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:59 -0400, John Hinton wrote:

> .... To me, the use of this includes directory is simply 
> good practice for multiple reasons. On this list, teaching best 
> 'standard' practices is a good idea. Who is going to think to tell 
> someone to go look in /data/config/apache for a configuration two
> years from now when something breaks due to following non-standard
> practices?

Unlike some other installations everything is documented, so everyone
knows.  Keeping information a secret from other workers is not practised
here.

Apache creates a default set-up. Default for those who need something
which 'works out of the box'. Apache then gives the creative person the
facilities to experiment and, as you illustrated, the ability to
minimise collateral disruption when something goes wrong when changing
files (like the mouse wheel button pasting copied text into unwanted
places).

Everything in, for example /data, is entire operating system
independent. Simple. The operating system dependant parts of Apache are
in the /etc /usr and /var directories, so they can be updated with other
operating system revisions. Remember the /etc /usr /var directories are
operating system directories, so we keep non-operating system items out
of them.

If I wanted to move everything to another operating system, for example
Solaris or BCD, everything in /data will work on the new operating
system without changes ! Just needs a few quick changes to the operating
system configuration files. Simple, Easy and Reliable.

An English saying is: "Rules were made for the guidance of wise men but
for the obedience of fools".  Naturally I am not implying, nor would I,
that anyone on this list are in the latter category. However I believe
that saying makes a valid point.

Once upon a time people were killed for believing the world was not flat
and if one sailed far enough their ship would drop-off the edge of the
world. Blind and unthinking obedience and the intellectual inability to
question and experiment are not conducive to the successful development
and using of computers.

Please note I do not teach on here. I've already got a large
workload :-)

Best regards,

Paul.