Forwarding sites & URL rewriting
Note: the content of this blog entry is deprecated. Please search our member FAQ for “canonical” for more information about replacement techniques. We recently got a support inquiry about alternate...
View ArticleWriting files in PHP
The “traditional” web server just reads and sends out files in response to incoming requests. Consequently, the standard security configuration is therefore set up to give web accesses the bare minimum...
View ArticleSurprise WordPress Upgrade
We received a note from Technorati today about a serious security problem with old versions of WordPress, including the version we were running, that is now being exploited on a widespread scale. We’ve...
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Quick WordPress Performance Tip: Create a favicon
One of our members’ WordPress blogs got heavily FARKed a bit ago. Alarms went off, we thought the server was going to crash. That’s pretty unusual, of course, so we looked into it and found something...
View ArticleA PHP Include Exploit Explained
We are having a fairly consistent problem with spammers auto-exploiting a very common type of scripting vulnerability that appears on our members’ sites. Unlike most vulnerabilities that stem from a...
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How-To: Django on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET
Now that our persistent process feature is out of beta, this is the first in a series of brief tutorials designed to show how to make use of the feature. In this example, we’ll deploy a minimal Django...
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