Category: Apache

To monitor for Apache config file errors in Zabbix do the following: 1. Create monitor test script at /etc/zabbix/apache_configtest.pl with the following contents:

2. Add the following line to the end of /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf:

3. From the Zabbix web interface add an Item for the new monitor at Configuration -> Items -> Create Item with the following settings:

Other fields can be left at default. 4. Add a Trigger for the new Item at Configuration -> Triggers -> Create Trigger with the following settings:

Other fields can be left at default.

Sometimes on a website you want to have a folder inside the document root that has it’s own FTP account. For example you might have a /news folder and you want your ad agency to be able to post articles to this folder but not access the rest of the website. Unfortunately plesk does not provide facilities for having multiple FTP accounts on a single site under the document root. Here’s a work around: 1. In Plesk, create a “Web User” in the desired domain. The web user will have a document root at: /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/web_users/[username] And the corresponding url will be: http://domain.com/~[username] Where username is the name that you assigned to the web user in Plesk. This is now your FTP account. Give the login to whoever needs it and let them upload content. 2. Next we’ll use a rewrite rule to map the web user’s document root into a

Here are the steps to create a self signed certificate. Replace [domain_name] with the actual domain name of the virtual host. 1. create key

2. generate certificate signing request

3. generate the certificate

Here are three ways in Apache to block access to the .svn folders. With access controls:

With rewrite rule:

With redirect:

These come from the excellent MDLog:/sysadmin blog at: http://www.ducea.com/2006/08/11/apache-tips-tricks-deny-access-to-some-folders/