Create the configuration file:
touch /etc/apache2/conf-available/block-wp-xmlrpc.conf
Fill it with the following contents:
<Directory /home/*/public_html/*/>
<files xmlrpc.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>
</Directory>
And then enable it:
a2enconf block-wp-xmlrpc.conf service apache2 reload
When looking for advise on hardening your WordPress sites many blogs recommend adding the following in a .htaccess file in each sites upload folder:
<Files *.php> Deny from All </Files>
For those of us with a large amount of WordPress Sites, this is obviously labor prohibitive. If you have a regularized folder structure you may be able to do something like this:
<Directory /home/*/public_html/*/wp-content/uploads> <FilesMatch "\.(php|php\.)$"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from all </FilesMatch> </Directory>
And put it into a Apache configuration file as such:
And then enable it:
a2enconf block-wp-uploads-php.conf
ls | while read filename; do tar -czvf "$filename".tgz "$filename"; rm "$filename"; done
Serva is an all-in-one portable multi-server engine that supports the following protocols:
Check it out:
http://www.vercot.com/~serva/default.html
What is xip.io? xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address.
Check it out!:
http://xip.io
NCurses DU or NCDU:
http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr
One of our family friends came over tonight complaining of her cursor going missing after applying the Windows 8.1 upgrade to her new laptop. After a lot of fussing with it for 20 minutes and some google-fu I found this thread:
Which explains that for whatever reason toggling the trackpad disable button causes the cursor to re-appear and stay visible even when re-disabling it. Quite an irritating bug.
Now that Google Apps is no longer free many of us have been left high and dry as far as offering high quality groupware/webmail to our customers and friends. Windows Live Domains is certainly not as polished as Google Apps was but it is certainly still free. A major frustration however is the lack of the ability to create aliases in the WebUI. Many users want to have an address like contact@ aliased to themselves at auser@. Microsoft has not provided a way to do this easily via their UI. Fortunately someone has stepped in with wlalias an open source tool that makes adding an alias as easy as:
wlalias add userid@example.com alias@example.comCheck it out over at: wlalias.com
Apparently http://healthcare.gov is more complex than OS X 10.4+Windows Vista+Facebook+Office 2013+The Linux Kernel Combined.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/
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