[Sunhelp] apache

[Tony Alberti]

If you are running the site behind a firewall and/or NAT box, you might want
to leave it at 8080 and have the NAT box
redirect port 80 into the webserver at 8080... If I remember correctly,
ports below 1024 are opened via root and are
considered a vulnerability issue.  Also, it's a good idea to create a
noshell httpd user and chown all of the apache bin files
and config files to that user.   Su to httpd from root to stop / start the
webserver... else you can have the httpd start at boot
launched by that user.  I know this wasn't the info you were exactly looking
for, but working with a webhosting company
that's had a few security issues...I have seen many hack attempts.   Hope
this was of some help.

Tony
talberti at mediaone.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff <elslooj at goldeninter.net>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] apache


> I'm not 100% sure about this, but I remember one of the apache packages on
> sunfreeware.com (might have been for 2.6) was set up to listen on port
8080.  So
> take a browser and say http://ipaddressofthewebserver:8080 and see if that
works.
> If so, look for that line in httpd.conf and change it to 80.  Then resart
the server
> and you should be good to go.
>
> Jeff
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to configure an apache web server on a sparc 10 running
solaris 2.7.
> > I used the packaged install from sunfreeware.com. I tried using it right
out of
> > the box (after uncommenting the "ServerName" line in
> > /usr/local/apache/conf/hhtpd.conf) and got a "failed to connect to
server"
> > message. I did restart apache using /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl
restart. I
> > verified that httpd is running. My server name is registered in my
providers DNS
> > tables, but just for kicks I tried using the IP in the ServerName
directive.
> > Still getting the "failed to connect" message. What am I missing?
> >
> > tia,
> > Brian
>
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