Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-14 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: NOTE: These help, but if you end up on the attacking end of a distributed bot attack, it's likely that your Apache server will get hosed -- at times, I've had to tune

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: NOTE: These help, but if you end up on the attacking end of a distributed bot attack,

Re: Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
NOTE: These help, but if you end up on the attacking end of a distributed bot attack, it's likely that your Apache server will get hosed -- at times, I've had to tune Apache (number of concurrent processes, number of concurrent queries), to keep our server from getting so overloaded that it

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: NOTE: These help, but if you end up on the attacking end of a distributed bot attack, it's likely that your Apache server will get hosed -- at times, I've had to tune Apache (number of concurrent processes, number of concurrent queries), to keep our

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:39:24PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: last time he was facing issue with rewrite module. however i have installed that module for sure. even i have check with apachectl command tool. though it is resolved for now. so i thought, in advance if there is any list

Re: Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Secondly do you guys have any advice on more security of WP. i have heard that word press is kind of week in security. maybe i am wrong but i have heard that. I've had no problems in several years of hosting WP. I do recommend NOT using the Debian package for WordPress. For security and

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 07:20:46PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: for some testing we first want to install our Wordpress website inhouse. and for that i have designed a Debian 7. and installed all the necessary packages that are needed for the deployment. now i want to grant rights to

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for sharing your input. what would be the rights of /var/www and its sub-directories. currently it is root : root and 775 Secondly do you guys have any advice on more security of WP. i have heard that word press is kind of week in security. maybe i am wrong but i have heard that. no

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
Please do not CC me on posts to the list. I read the list. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:24:55PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for sharing your input. what would be the rights of /var/www and its sub-directories. currently it is root : root and 775 I would havw www-data.www-data as

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance web developer

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:24:55PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for sharing your input. what would be the rights of /var/www and its sub-directories. currently it is root : root and 775 I would havw www-data.www-data as owner, but it isn't likely to matter. Does your