I have seen people asking this question more than two times now, so I decided it’s about time I write a blog post about it. In ColdFusion it was really easy to solve this problem, as CFIDE is a physical folder, so you could simply move it away from the webroot, and it wouldn’t be accessible to the entire world.
On Railo it’s a bit trickier, as the admin and server folders
are virtual directories, hence you can’t simply “move it away”.
Obviously it’s password protected, so people won’t simply have access
to it and screw up with your configuration, but a more will powered
person could easily brute force into it.
I have to reinforce here that a really will powered lad would
probably break into anything, or even log into your server and make it
a real mess. It’s always good to have this false security sensation
though, so I’ll post here how I do my own security.
Continue reading about CFML 101 – Protecting Railo admin folder
Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes This is really for my future reference, but I thought someone would bump into that any time. I’m configuring a new CentOS 5 server and for my surprise it didn’t come with yum installed.
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes This is gonna be pretty much a rant about my terrible experience with the so acclaimed Chrome, released yesterday. As soon as I heard the “buzz” about the new browser, I was excited to have it installed as soon as possible. Yes, this kind of thing sounds like a [...]
Continue reading about #RANT – Please “Google Guys” think before you release!
Reading time: < 1 minute They finally made it! Adobe just released the Flash Player for Linux. Now Linux users can deploy apps using the free Adobe Flex® 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and Flex Data Services 2 Express. All this for free… nothing… nada… niente! So if you’re using Linux, [...]
Reading time: < 1 minute Mark Lynch posted how to rip MP3′s on Ubuntu. I’ve never tested doing this, but will give it a try later Check it out
Recent Comments