I recently decided to start capturing the break-in attempts submitted to my wp-login.php file. I am going to capture the top credentials used by these scripts/attackers and add them to the SecLists project. Anyway, that requires that I be able to see the POST data for incoming requests, but unfortunately this was non-trivial to enable. Here’s how to…
Speeding Up Nginx Caching With tempfs
If you’ve done anything with optimizing the speed of websites, you know that caching is a must. It basically means you’re creating a page once, and then using it multiple times—as opposed to having to create it every time someone asks for it. So caching is good, is what I’m saying. Caching 2.0 There’s a caching superpower that…
Varnish and Nginx
Ok, so I’m sporting Varnish and Nginx now on the site, and I’ve made a number of tweaks since yesterday. I’m no longer running Apache at all. Good riddance. I’m highly enthused about software that performs well and has simple configurations. Nginx conf files are so clean compared to those of Apache. Some things remain: Sometimes the front…