HowtoForge: Security Testing your Apache Configuration with Nikto

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 18, 2006

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“By now you’ve got the perfect setup for your new Ubuntu 6.0.6
(Dapper Drake) box. You may have even followed the excellent
Intrusion Detection and Prevention with BASE and Snort tutorial.
And as an added precaution you installed DenyHosts to prevent hack
attempts via ssh. But now that you’ve got your new LAMP server on
the internet, how can you tell that your new web server is secure?
You test it, of course!

“This tutorial, inspired by one of the chapters in Hardening
Apache by Tony Mobily (APress), will show you how to set up the
free web server security scanner tool, Nikto…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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