In this article I am describing how to identify PHP scripts that are being used for email spamming through a Postfix mail server on an Debian based server. I just recognized last week an unnormal high workload on my server, causing the fast-cgi PHP instances not working well anymore. There was a noticeable delivery of HTTP 500 error [...]
To be enabled to gather information about PHP emailing scripts on your server, you can add two lines to your main php.ini: mail.add_x_header = On mail.log = /var/log/phpmail.log Restart your webserver after changing the php.ini. First parameter is adding a "X-PHP-Originating-Script:" information to the mail header, stating the user name an script name sending the [...]
I just stumbled upon an error in one of my clients web spaces. The costumer is running a presta shop on his web space and encoured an error in form of the "white screen of death". While taking a look to the server logs I encountered a repeating error about [Mon May 05 22:34:06 2014] [warn] [...]
Software Download This solution is quite old (written in 2010). It might not work with newer versions of Voyage Linux! First you have to download all necessary software packages. As I am running voyage linux (a debian derivate) it is really simple by using apt-get. apt-get update apt-get install lighttpd apt-get install php5-cgi apt-get [...]
Getting started Download a fresh copy of ApacheFriend XAMPP System and install it according to the tutorials. http://www.apachefriends.org/de/xampp-windows.html In the next step, we have to set the right include path to make sure that all pear packages will be installed in the right locations. Goto System Properties into the Advanced tab. Click on Environment Variables Extend [...]
Even when now running a Wordpress installation with a (from my point of view) very fancy and clean design I was a bit dissapointed by the loss of speed compared to my former CMS installation of Contao (former Typolight). In this post I like to shortly introduce you to the actions I performed to regain [...]