Securing Apache 2: Step-by-Step

Securing Apache 2: Step-by-Step
Artur Maj

Securing Apache 2: Step-by-Step 2006-11-01
Anonymous

I hope you can post a version of this step-by-step article for Apache 2 on the Windows platform.

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Securing Apache 2: Step-by-Step 2007-10-16
harry (1 replies)

This guide shows how to run Apache2 in a chroot jail but the main process still runs as root which kind of defeats the purpose. Does anyone have any links/hints on how to make Apache give up root after opening the port? Thanks for the guide though, really helpfull.

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Re: Securing Apache 2: Step-by-Step 2007-11-08
Fabien

This is not fully the case: we see that we have a dedicated user and group in the httpd.conf file.

The directives are:

User apache

Group apache

And when the main process running as root is starting, it will put the port(s) in LISTEN mode, fork the main process into several sub-processes...

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