David_spm

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In apache error_logs Im seeing things like this: [Thu Dec 06 08:08:05.141717 2018] [mpm_worker:alert] [pid 797:tid 140122596484864] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: AH03142: apr_thread_create...

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• David_spm
• December 06, 2018 12:19
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3. Apache down: 'lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/whm-server-status'

here's something else: sudo /scripts/restartsrv_apache Waiting for "httpd" to start ""waiting for "httpd" to initialize "finished. Service Status httpd (/usr/sbin/httpd -k start) is running as r...

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• David_spm
• December 06, 2018 11:11
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ok Hello, You may find the discussion on the following thread helpful:

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• David_spm
• July 27, 2018 04:28
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Add xmlrpc deny in Apache Configuration - Pre VirtualHost Include - All versions. It should block all xmlrpc attacks. Order Allow,Deny deny from all thanks but already had that added

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• David_spm
• July 26, 2018 09:33
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Update: I looked closer at some of the CloudFlare settings for some of the affected sites and tried adding the set of ips where all the requests were coming from. Nothing seemed to change. I then t...

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• David_spm
• July 25, 2018 08:23
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Currently CSF is not enabled. Ive left it like this since it crashed as it caused the entire server to go down which I dont want to happen again. This shows LFD killing php-fpm processes from thi...

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• David_spm
• June 20, 2018 12:45
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Thanks Lauren, I managed to get back into the server yesterday and this is where Im at now: I could see in Munin logs and graphs that everything went down around 6am EST, I couldnt see any major s...

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• David_spm
• June 16, 2018 10:54
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OK so unfortunately things got a lot worse later. After setting up CSF I also setup CloudFlare on a couple of sites, everything was fine and I checked in on the sever and some sites several times...

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• David_spm
• June 15, 2018 03:24
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You may want to consider installing CSF Firewall (it"s FREE!) - it makes blocking IP"s fast and easy. You can also configure it to automatically block IP"s based on Mod_security rule-hits. EDIT: s...

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• David_spm
• June 14, 2018 04:05
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thanks Its pretty rare blocking IP's does anything outside of maybe stopping the attack for a bit but to many infected hosts out there, you'll never block them all. You should check my previous po...

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• David_spm
• June 14, 2018 03:35
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