Posted by: baudday on: September 30, 2008
So I have a directory on my server with several (more than 50) sub-directories filled with pictures. Obviously this is a lot of pictures, and since I did not name the images as I uploaded them, I have no idea what’s what. I just know where and when they were taken from the folder titles. [...]
Posted by: baudday on: September 23, 2008
So after uploading the majority of what I wanted to the server, I decided it was time to close the ftp port. I read a lot of stuff about it being the most vulnerable point, and one of the first ports hackers try. So I read up on SFTP or Secure FTP, and SCP and [...]
Posted by: baudday on: September 20, 2008
Well, I was told by a reader that .htaccess is not a very secure way to block off parts of your website. Since I am busy learning everything for the first time, I was willing to take his advice and was able to use httpd.conf to restrict access. Also, he showed me a way that [...]
Posted by: baudday on: September 14, 2008
So after I made my music available in my web root, I felt it necessary to password protect it. I don’t want anyone to download my music or stream it or anything like that. No one except me, that is. No illegal activity should be coming from my server I figured. So I thought of [...]
Posted by: baudday on: September 10, 2008
Sorry for the two short posts after each other, but this is definitely worth a mention.
With the external HDD working, and everything being saved on there, I wasn’t sure how to make it accessible without having to connect via FTP every time. More importantly, everyone doesn’t necessarily wanna download every song they wanna listen to, [...]
Posted by: baudday on: September 10, 2008
Well, this is kind of short, but I got wordpress loaded on the server. I was having trouble accessing the MySQL database. What happened was, I forgot the password I originally set for the root user, and thought I could just use my username and password. So all I had to do was reinstall MySQL [...]
Posted by: baudday on: September 9, 2008
So the most recent thing I’ve done is add on a 1TB external hard drive. This will be where basically all media such as photos and videos and music will be stored to be shared with the family.
When I first plugged in the drive, I couldn’t even move files on and off it. I wasn’t [...]
