Using ModSecurity is not easy. The complexity of your site, your use of PHP, MySQL and other scripting languages will make it more difficult to configure correctly. Basically, the more complex your site, the more time you will need to work out issues with rules. This tutorial will provide you with several important tips to get started with ModSecurity.

ModSecurity is sophisticated application firewall that monitors the content of ports 80 and 443. ModSecurity can protect you from hack attacks, zero day exploits, directory traversals, SQL injection and a lot of other bad stuff. This script will help you locate the blocks that ModSecurity is performing for you so you can evaluate.

Webmaster Tools from Google can enhance your understanding of what is making your website work. ModSecurity, a valuable security resource, may block the verification page that is necessary for Webmaster Tools to function. This article will show you how to write a rule that will allow you to use both effectively.

What's happening on your web server that you do not know about? ModSecurity provides you insight into the activity on your web server that Apache is not designed to tell you about. ModSecurity Handbook by Ivan Ristic is a great read to start getting information about activity and then managing the access to your web server.

This article shows how to install and configure ModSecurity (version 2) for use with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. ModSecurity is an Apache module that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications. It aims at shielding web applications from known and unknown attacks, such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, path traversal attacks, etc.

ApacheMap plots the location of each Web hit your site receives on a Google Map. The utility converts IP addresses from Apache logs into longitude and latitude information using hostip.info.

Looks like a lot of people have been having trouble with over the sensitive tap-to-click function of the Asus EEE PC's touchpads when using Ubuntu-EEE. I was too, until I stumbled across this article which explains precisely how to disable tap-to-click by enabling the elantech driver. The article is so low in pagerank that you can't find it by googling for the problem.

This is an example of a Bash shell script used to loop through a list to compare to text strings found in logs. The script is used to detect and block attacks on a web site.

phpLogCon provides a user-friendly Web interface to your system logs. It can handle logs from both Linux and Windows systems, so an administrator can log in to a single phpLogCon site to see what is happening on all the machines on a network.