February 2014 archive

Limit multiple attachment downloads in WordPress by IP

This solution uses Fail2ban along with a separte PHP script and a MySQL database to limit the number of attachment downloads for an IP. I needed this solution because some IP’s (mostly China) are constanty downloading the same files (zip and pdf) over and over again. In fact, the downloads are started but they never …

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Enable SSL authentication on port 465 in ISPConfig 3 on Ubuntu

I used this tutorial located on howtoforge.com for installing ISPConfig. It covers TLS authentication for SMTP but not SSL. To use SSL you must do the following steps : We must first allow postfix to listen on port SMTPS aka port 465

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