Here is a thorough howto on how I built a chrooted apache using mod_chroot. Along with chroot, I’m using mod_security for basic filtering and the suhosin PHP extension for adding additional security to the core of PHP on the server. As some of you know, adding additional security, you often take away functionality and usability.… Continue reading How to create Chrooted Apache with mod_chroot

Currently, I’m working on a hardened server using mod_chroot, mod_security and the suhosin extension. I was installing an app that was using fsockopen to check for updates (it’s open source package). Everytime, I would check for updates, I would get an unexpected error displayed to me. Hoping to find more information I took a look… Continue reading PHP’s fsockopen() in mod_chroot

This article is about getting saslauthd working in a chroot’d postfix, but I’ll explain how I got here to start with. I was working on a Gentoo box that has been a slight nightmare for me (actually, complete nightmare). It was built outside of Gentoo portage (basically image’d from another Gentoo box). Because of this,… Continue reading How to get saslauthd to work in postfix chroot environment