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Mass virtual hosting with apache through mod_rewrite

If you are a developer and you’re working with several subdomains for development purposes, you can create a single virtualhost, without the need to add subdomains and restart/reload the apache web server. Directory structure (example): /var/www /var/www/project1.unixteacher.org /var/www/project2.unixteacher.org /var/www/project3.unixteacher.org /var/www/development.unixteacher.org One single virtualhost for any subdomain: <VirtualHost *> DocumentRoot /var/www ServerName unixteacher.org ServerAlias *.unixteacher.org CustomLog…

HTTP DoS Protection with nginx

HTTP DoS Protection with Nginx through ngx_http_limit_conn_module and ngx_http_limit_req_module modules. The ngx_http_limit_conn_module module is used to limit the number of connections per the defined key, in particular, the number of connections from a single IP address. Not all connections are counted. A connection is counted only if it has a request processed by the server…