I have been trying to find the PID of a php site which is hosted in my apache web server. I did not know that it was very easy until in found the built in php function getmypid(). To find the process ID (PID) of a PHP script use the following code in your php [...]
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IFRAME Virus injecting malicious code | Web server security
November 28th, 2009 
Aneesh This year, there has been a large increase in the number of legitimate websites infected by a so-called “iframe” threat – a type of malicious script.
Several prominent websites have come under attack from hackers who have modified the underlying code so that malware can be distributed to unsuspecting users who visit the site. When a [...]
Show all cron jobs in linux
November 27th, 2009 Aneesh If you need to show all cron tasks in a linux machine go to /var/spool/cron and run the following command
cat * > crones.txt
Now , you can find all cron details in the above file (crones.txt)
change php.ini values using htaccess
November 25th, 2009 Aneesh Using php_flag we can change php.ini values through an .htaccess file. For example if we need to change the php value of register_globals to Off we can do it using the following .htaccess
php_flag register_globals off
Install ffmpeg on linux
November 25th, 2009 Aneesh 1. Create a directory to do our work in
mkdir ~/ffmpeg
cd ~/ffmpeg
2. Get all the source fileswget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
3. Extract all the source files
bunzip2 essential-20061022.tar.bz2; tar xvf essential-20061022.tar
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
bunzip2 ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2; tar xvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tar
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
4. Create the codecs directory & import them
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mv essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 [...]
