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How to solve “.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable”

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

My error log shows:-
[Sun Jul 13 01:15:32 2008] [crit] [client 218.208.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: /home/mydomain/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
And the site is showing “403 Forbidden Error”.
At first, I suspect it’s .htaccess problem, but actually it’s caused by Frontpage Extension.
To solve “.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is [...]

Mod Security - Open source Web Application Firewall

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

What is mod security (mod_security)?
ModSecurity is an embeddable web application firewall. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and real-time analysis with no changes to existing infrastructure.
It is also an open source project that aims to make the web application firewall technology available to everyone. [...]

Domain Parking - How to park a domain in CPanel Hosting

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Domain Parking is useful when you want people to get to your website with multiple domain name. (Domain Parking feature already exists in CPanel by default)
Here’s the Domain Parking example: you have a website www.domain1.com and now you wan your site to be easily access using other domain name as well. So you buy few [...]