Gabriel Harper's Blog

Once in a while you might run into a suspicious IP address accessing your website. Maybe it’s doing something funny like probing for vulnerabilities, or just spamming the heck out of your server. Being a responsible webmaster, you decide to ban the IP address from your server completely – but how? Using Apache Web server it’s easy to ban a single IP address, ban multiple IP addresses or ban an entire IP range using the .htaccess file.

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The Apache Web server supports URL rewriting with the mod_rewrite engine. Placing custom rules in an .htaccess file lets you do all sorts of useful things to keep your URLs tidy. One really handy thing you can do for search engines and visitors is redirecting traffic from www to non-www version of your domain (and vice versa).

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After upgrading to PHP 5.2.5 and Apache 2.6.9 using the new easyapache3 scripts (WHM > Software > Apache Update) I was still left without Zend Optimizer. WHM and easyapache3 installed Zend Optimizer (located in /usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.0/) but after some mucking about I made the mistake of running /scripts/installzendopt – previously used to install Zend Optimizer with a step-by-step installer.

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