[CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

Sun May 8 18:24:00 UTC 2011
R P Herrold <herrold at centos.org>

quick answer:  even paranoids have enemies

On Sun, 8 May 2011, Jason wrote:

> So I turned on Apache ReWrite and I created a file and I put in rules like: (just a small subset)
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/php(.*) [NC,OR]
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpmy(.*) [NC,OR]
     .snip

> 2. I know I can simplify these rules. Wouldn't RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/php(.*) [NC,OR] get most of the attempts for thinks like /php, /php-myadmin, /phpmyadmin-2.0.8.8, etc?
>
> 3. Is there a better way to right these rules?

I wrote about my approch some time ago ...

http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/06/reading-logs-part-3-run-your-updates.html

Send them safely off your box, and back home

-- Russ herrold