Category: technical
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Apache phpMyAdmin spam-pot
This is for preventing 404 errors when hackers try to guess your phpmyadmin setup file location. This is based off the project honey-pot concept. The bot stops searching once it finds a file its after and thus reduces the load on your server (actually this is not strictly true, sometimes they will just search for…
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18 months of dealing with a MySQL ‘too many connections’ error
Database Crash On a few separate occasions the database has become overwhelmed with ‘too many connections’ and then starts rejecting people from trying to view the website. We are running: Fedora MySQL 5.0.27 WordPress 3.0.1 (the problems all occurred with WordPress 2.7-2.9) phpBB 2.0.23 PHP 5.1.6 Current solution The database has now been up for…
Ian Channing 