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maskego



Joined: 16 Apr 2010
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PostPosted: Thu 11 Oct '12 8:28    Post subject: Reply with quote

James:
I remind one thing.
Does the apache virtualhost environment lower the web or apache server's security?Do you have suggestion about this?My live site was hacked yesterday.Hope virtualhost has no security issues.
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7354
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Thu 11 Oct '12 9:43    Post subject: Reply with quote

maskego wrote:

Does the apache virtualhost environment lower the web or apache server's security?


Well that is not to this topic. vhosts do not decrease the security from apache. The things that make it weaker against attacks are the software / scripts you run on. Apache itself out of the box is solid.
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maskego



Joined: 16 Apr 2010
Posts: 238

PostPosted: Thu 11 Oct '12 9:53    Post subject: Reply with quote

I run virtualhost successfully now.I install phpts instead of phpnts,it runs well now.Thanks you for your config for reference.I will keep to check it's running. :)And,should I set AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All if I have .htaccess at the documentroot?
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James Blond
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Thu 11 Oct '12 20:14    Post subject: Reply with quote

maskego wrote:
I run virtualhost successfully now.I install phpts instead of phpnts,it runs well now.Thanks you for your config for reference.I will keep to check it's running. :)And,should I set AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All if I have .htaccess at the documentroot?


If you realy need the .htaccess than yes. But is better to Leave AllowOverride to none and put the .htaccess stuff into the config of the vhost. Else apache will read the .htaccess with each request that makes it slower. The config file is only read once while startup. For that see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html#when
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