The intention for this short howto was to use the power of modsecurity to secure a Apache2 running as proxy for an MS Exchange OWA on wild wild web. The system described below is based on a debian lenny machine.
Let’s start with editing the sources.list to get the latest version of modsecurity module. Simply add this line:
deb http://etc.inittab.org/~agi/debian/libapache-mod-security2 ./ and install the stuff.
aptitude install libapache-mod-security apache2-mpm-worker Now I’ve disabled all sites and modules not needed and enable the new modules:
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With the upgrade from Debian etch to lenny i’ve set up an new machine to serv my XEN-Instances. First install the Dom0 on the new hardware and create a logical volume (here my-lvm-vg on/dev/sdb) for further expansion:
pvcreate /dev/sdb vgcreate my-lvm-vg /dev/sdb Then bring up your network by editing the /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp similar to the old system (e. g. network-bridge). If you have broken network interfaces in Dom0, follow this link.
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