Just a quick one! When setting up the hosting for the PrestaShop instance I have deployed my client ran in to errors trying to upload big image files, particularly for the virtual product downloads she offers. A quick google identified the issue as PHP configuration, which out-of-the-box for Amazon Linux is set to limit max… Continue reading PHP settings for bigger file uploads
If you are using Apache to host multiple sites with virtual hosting or vhosts, then by default the log output will not show which sites each log entry refers to. To change this edit the following in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\”” combined to read: LogFormat “%h %l %u… Continue reading Adding the vhost to the Apache access_log
This post is informed by: AWS Forums If you have installed Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.4, then it is not possible to install mod_security with yum. Instead you need to install: % yum install mod24_security
A quick post – if you notice a lot of suspicious activity from a single IP address (e.g. 1.2.3.4) and you want to block all inbound traffic from that address you can use the command: % sudo iptables -I INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP % sudo service iptables save Nice and quick and easy! And… Continue reading Blocking individual IPs in EC2 LAMP