[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejecting Invalid URL With a 503 Status

2008-06-13 Thread Merton Campbell Crockett
It's been a few years since I've done any extensive work with Apache and could use some help with a server that I've inherited. The Apache server is configured with a VirtualHost that is used to support a single, web-based collaboration tool. The URL used to access the collaboration tool

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejecting Invalid URL With a 503 Status

2008-06-13 Thread Joshua Slive
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the Apache access log, it's clear that Apache is processing a lot of requests from systems probing for vulnerabilities. Rather than have Apache process the request, I would like to immediately

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejecting Invalid URL With a 503 Status

2008-06-13 Thread Merton Campbell Crockett
On 13 Jun 2008, at 09:47:43, Joshua Slive wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the Apache access log, it's clear that Apache is processing a lot of requests from systems probing for vulnerabilities. Rather than have Apache

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejecting Invalid URL With a 503 Status

2008-06-13 Thread André Warnier
Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: On 13 Jun 2008, at 09:47:43, Joshua Slive wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I may add my grain of salt : often the issue is that such error messages end up cluttering the logfile, consuming

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejecting Invalid URL With a 503 Status

2008-06-13 Thread Joshua Slive
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Merton Campbell Crockett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, I'm tired of the bullshit. I don't want to spend my life filling out forms explaining to those that haven't a clue that their vulnerability is a false positive. I want to configure Apache to reject

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejecting Invalid URL With a 503 Status

2008-06-13 Thread Nick Kew
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:06:45 -0400 Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise, mod_rewrite could certainly be used. If you want the uber-powerful approach, mod_security can also do stuff like this. Indeed, normal Allow/Deny is the correct and best way to do this. mod_security is an