On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:53 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > I looked around for advice on this - > a HOWTO or tutorial - > and was surprised not to find one. > > > system-config-securitylevel > > > > enable www (httpd) > > firewall enabled > > <OK> > > Well, that is more or less what I have done - > so my question is, how secure will that be? > > I was reading some apache security documents, > and they seemed frighteningly complicated. > > You have reassured me the issue may not be as difficult > as I suspected. > > > > <OK> > > Well, that is more or less what I have done - > so my question is, how secure will that be? > > I was reading some apache security documents, > and they seemed frighteningly complicated. > > You have reassured me the issue may not be as difficult > as I suspected. ---- apache does so many different things that it has to be complicated. Just dishing out static web pages is pretty much the thing that it does by default out of the box so apparently all you really needed was a firewall around every port but port 80. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
