Installing the GeoIP Apache module
This module allows you to determine which country, region, city, postal code, area code the visitor is coming from.
1. Install the module
apt-get install libapache2-mod-geoip
Install XCache
XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load. It overcomes a lot of problems that has been with other competing opcachers such as being able to be used with new PHP versions.
1. Installing the XCache package
apt-get install php5-xcache
Installing suPHP
suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners. It consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and a setuid root binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to change the uid of the process executing the PHP interpreter.
1. Install suPHP
apt-get install libapache2-mod-suphp
Scan your web server for vulnerabilities with Nikto
Nikto is a web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on over 250 servers.
1. Install Nikto
apt-get install nikto
Installing and configuring Squid proxy server
Squid is a caching proxy supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.
1. Install the Squid package
apt-get install squid
Simple load balancing using Pound
The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.
1. Install the pound package
apt-get install pound
Installing Zend Optimizer
The Zend Optimizer enables you to run Zend Guard encoded files.
1. Download a copy of Zend Optimizer / Guard from the location below and put it into /tmp
http://www.zend.com/en/products/guard/downloads
Installing the DSPAM web frontend on lenny
This tutorial covers installing and configuring the DSPAM web frontend. Using the web frontend, the mail users can configure the sensitivity of the spam filter, see statistics and more.
I assume you already have the Apache2 web server and DSPAM daemon installed.
1. Install the dspam-webfrontend package and suexec module for the Apache2 web server.
apt-get install dspam-webfrontend apache2-suexec
Installing ionCube
ionCube protects software written using the PHP programming language from being viewed, changed, and run on unlicensed computers.
1. Download ionCube loaders
wget http://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz
Request and install SSL using Apache2 and OpenSSL
First we'll need to create a certificate signing request (CSR) containing the certificate application info and a private key. Make sure you don't expose you're private key (test.com.key) to the public or the safety of the encrypted information could be compromised.
mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
cd /etc/apache2/ssl
openssl req -new -nodes -keyout test.com.key -out test.com.csr
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