Whenever we do run a system that has SSH exposed to the world, we always install something to monitor and block SSH attempts. On the low end, we use fail2ban or sshguard, but our preference is OSSEC – especially when protecting multiple systems. The noise generated by SSH scanning is highly annoying – particularly if […]
We recently needed to migrate a large WordPress site’s comments to Disqus. Disqus offers two methods of importing comments: their plugin “export” function and a WXR import function. Unfortunately, neither worked for us. The WXR import process is horrible; if it fails processing it simply says “Error parsing import” instead of returning any useful information. […]
With all the recent publicity regarding Internet spying, there has been a renewed interest in security and encryption. One oft-neglected feature of SSL is the ability to use a cipher with Diffie-Hellman key exchange that enables so-called perfect forward secrecy. The advantage of PFS is that even if your private key is compromised, recorded past […]
This is the world’s only existing simple example of an Openswan / Libreswan VPN between two Amazon EC2 VPCs. At least it seems that way after many fruitless searches today. We recently needed to link a client’s two VPCs together using a VPN and decided to use Libreswan instead of OpenVPN. Since there’s a dearth […]
Having your site’s search results indexed is a bad SEO practice. Here’s another simple Magento fix that I didn’t find clearly documented elsewhere. In fact, I found broken plugins that purport to accomplish this for you. In your local.xml, simply add the following to your section:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <!-- NOINDEX on category search pages --> <catalogsearch_result_index> NOINDEX,FOLLOW <catalogsearch_advanced_result> NOINDEX,FOLLOW |