[137026] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: WebServer and Firewall Help

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Warren)
Tue Feb 8 07:21:12 2011

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:21:29 -0500
From: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=OSRDEa_X2Rdhp6bGW2-dFZbOCDzAWAr6ZiUTY@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 2/7/2011 1:23 PM, Joshua William Klubi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run a web-server based on ubuntu server and the LAMP stack.
> I used Ubuntu's UFW firewall model and have enabled only Web and SSH ports.
> Namely port 80 and port 22 only.
>
> Unfortunately once a while some guys get to inject some content onto our web
> pages.
>
> Now managements are looking at getting a well proven infrastructure to
> counter that.
> But I also think i can fall on this community to help me get the right stuff
> done. Where
> i can protect the server from such attack.
>
>
> I want to know what measure i can do on the server to get it protected which
> mysql protection
> I should implement. since i can see that it might be a php or mysql
> injection that is been used.
>
> Currently I run these security measures on it.
> Ubuntu UFW
> Fail2ban
> PHP model security
> Apache security
>
> Joshua
the problem may not be your operating system but the web application 
running.  what web application/s are on that box?


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post