Solution: chown: invalid user: www-data:www-data

Posted 1225 days ago - Debian · Leave a Comment

light_logo_170px Ran into this issue after getting rid of the www-data user and group. The solution is simple and doesn't involve adding the account/group, assuming the objective is to run Lighttpd as a different user (not www-data). If the intention is to run Lighttpd with the www-data account, simply add the account. Otherwise, keep reading...

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529 Attacks in 9 Days: id1.txt, RFI, & More

Posted 1256 days ago - Development, Security · Leave a Comment

Long time Nullamatix readers know how much I love reviewing log files. Logs can provide detailed incite into not only the overall health of a system, but information one can use to mitigate the risks of automated attacks. In this post, I'll go over a couple ways to harden a PHP enabled web server and hopefully prevent: fx29id1.txt, id23.txt, id.txt, id1.txt, fxid.txt, one.txt, fx1.txt, and several other automated attacks from successfully exploiting common weaknesses.

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Nullamatix.com Survived The Digg Effect, Barely

Posted 1985 days ago - Traffic Building, Wordpress · Leave a Comment

Wow, what an interesting day. After experiencing The Digg Effect first hand, and looking over a few stats, I've made the conclusion that Digg users are comparable to a swarm of crack heads surfing the Internet. Don't get me wrong, landing on the front page of Digg is awesome and I'm really grateful, but the swarm came, some saw, and then they left. That's awesome. Like a swarm of locust coming to devour everything in site, and when they're gone, all is quiet again. Literally 15 to 30 minutes of fame.

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