File privileges
On Unix systems, the file and directory access privileges are crucial for security. If you let other people write files, that the root user also writes on or executes, then your root account could be compromised. For example, an attacker could modify the apache2ctl starting script and execute arbitrary code, next time the root […]
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Apache 2 introduced the multi-processing modules (MPMs), which provide networking features, accept requests and dispatch them to children to handle the request. You can choose from several MPMs at compile time in order to suit your needs.
The pre-forking server mode, which was the standard behavior in Apache 1.3, lives on in the prefork MPM, which […]
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