Haneef Puttur

Install ISPConfig3 on an Ubuntu 14.10 Server – Part 6

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Increase MaxRequestLen in etc/apache2/mods-available/fcgid.conf

If you dont do this you will get following error messages

ISPConfig – Error 500 Internal Server Error

ERROR 500 – Internal Server Error!
The following error occurred:
The requested URL caused an internal server error.
If you get this message repeatedly please contact the webmaster.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/fcgid.conf

Add these two lines :

FcgidConnectTimeout 20

MaxRequestLen 15728640

This will (“MaxRequestLen 15728640″) set the Request Limit to 15MB.

Restart Apache to make settings affective

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Increase File Upload Size

sudo nano /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini

post_max_size = 48M

upload_max_filesize = 24M

After making above changes please restart apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Also make the same above changes in this file :

sudo nano etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

 

Install Fail2Ban

What is Fail2Ban : It  is an intrusion prevention software framework which protects computer servers from brute-force attacks. Written in the Python programming language, it is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally, for example, iptables or TCP Wrapper.

How to Install

sudo apt-get install fail2ban

After installation finish please restart the service

sudo /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart

If you want to put any custom rules like whitelist own ip , can be done by adding your ip address to this file :

sudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local

Make sure to restart service once done.

Also you can verify the rules using following command

sudo iptables -L

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