Essential Tips For Securing Your Apache Server Configuration

Last week I gave a few tips about SSH, so this week I think I will give a few tips about apache. Just to reiterate, these are tips that have worked for me and they may not be as efficient or as effective for your style of system administration.

If you are running a production web server that it out there on the internet, then you should be wary of the information that can be obtained from a misconfigured page or something that may cause an unexpected error. When apache throws an error page or a directory index, it usually shows a version string, something similar to this:
Apache/2.0.58 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.2-1.1 Server at zeus Port 80
If you don

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