Re: Working on a security program

[Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Walter wrote:

> Saifi Khan wrote:
> > 
> > Would setting up 'snort' help ?
> 
> www.snort.org
> 
> Seems a bit 'heavy' for my little (P2) web server.
> But it looks like the kind of thing people would
> want on every (modern) web-attached computer.
> 

Apache mod_security may be helpful.
http://www.modsecurity.org/

The high quality detailed documentation is here
http://www.modsecurity.org/documentation/modsecurity-apache/2.5.12/modsecurity2-apache-reference.html

The ConfigurationDirectives and VARIABLES will give you a very 
good idea about mod_security.


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thanks
Saifi.