CentOS

Thanks for your post @hunter86_bg I was aware that you can do this in the .htaccess file using Require..... with apache 2.4 but as you stated, the .htaccess file would get very long eventually, especially without proper maintenance. That was why I had originally intended to map an ip-blacklist and t...

Thanks @TrevorH You make a pretty good point actually about using IPtables. I would have normally went this way but as I was intending to install wordpress for someone who isn't familiar with IPtables, I was trying to create a simpler way for them to block spam IP addresses. My thought was, they cou...

Hi, I am sure there is some really simple thing that I am missing or something but I have been trying to figure this out all day and don't seem to be getting anywhere. I have been trying to set up a txt file to act as a blacklist for IP address of people whom I don't want to have access to my public...

Hi linuxnewb, Thanks for your reply. Just to clarify the issue you raised with security. The user I was creating the account for is the joint owner of the server. As the two of us plan on being high level server admin, for our own server, there wasn't really an issue with giving that user account ro...

HI, I have a user that I want to have all root privileges on my server without needing to use the root account. I created a user account for them and then modified my sudoers file using visudo like this: ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL jaytel ALL=(ALL) ALL However, this...

Hi, I thought that my first post on the forum should be an introduction, introducing myself to the community. I am jumping ship from ubuntu to CentOS because my VPS provider does not provide the latest version of ubuntu. I had expected the transition to be difficult but so far it has been pretty str...