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mpm-itk on CentOS – run Apache virtual hosts as different users

Posted 5th April 2010 by Andy | 2 Comments

mpm-itk is a fork of mpm-prefork (ironically in both process and project sense), which allows you to configure individual Apache vhosts to run as specified users and groups. This makes it extremely secure if used in a shared hosting environment. I have provided a CentOS RPM for this in the Webtatic yum repository. This should [...]

PHP public key cryptography using OpenSSL

Posted 5th July 2009 by Andy | 6 Comments

Using the PHP OpenSSL extension it is fairly easy to sort out a secure system for encrypting data with one key that only can be decrypted with another.