S9y to WP

Serendipity to WordPress is easy. Follow these directions to the “t” and it will happen, that’s how I’m here! http://code.google.com/p/snowulf/source/browse/#svn/trunk/wordpress/s9y-to-wp It is surprisingly easy: Install an old version of WordPress (2.X) onto your server After initial setup, follow the rest of the directions in the readme.txt Place the .php file into the appropriate directory Locate…

301 Redirects – How to keep your domains working

A couple of my users have been giving out their domain name as "blahblah.com" instead of "www.blahblah.com".  The interesting thing of course, they don’t resolve to the same place (in Linux anyway) unless you configure your system to handle things that way.  Doing it with 301s is about the best way.  Here is an example…

Linux Hardening – Sec Check

Auditing has become my main job as of late and so I developed a method to inspect Linux Servers from the inside out, checking for a list of Best Practices and Recommended Values and the like. File: seccheck.sh #!/bin/bash # Linux Security Check version .2.0 # 2012-10-18 # Modified by Jim McKibben # Original concept…

IPTables Firewall with auto update blocklist v2.2

Again, working to harden Linux as much as possible. After much searching, reading, researching, comparison, and experimentation I developed this. I will update this post with new content when I revise the firewall configuration. If you scroll down towards the bottom of this post you will find the rest of the parts that make this…