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July 29th, 2003, 01:20 AM
ZacharyAdams

web help

What are some good links to make your web more secure?
July 29th, 2003, 02:03 AM
DeadAddict

Do you mean your web site?
July 29th, 2003, 12:13 PM
SirDice

Can you be a bit more specific? Like what type of webserver (apache or IIS), scripting languages, database access?

Unfortunately there isn't a single source for all this information so you need to be a bit more specific so we can point you in the right direction.
July 29th, 2003, 07:11 PM
j3r

http://www.owasp.org/guide/ learn it, love it, live it

Note that this is an overview, and is almost entirely focused on the web application side (as opposed to the infrastructure - the network, OS, web server software). OTOH, it's reasonably compact and complete.
July 29th, 2003, 07:27 PM
Dark Phoen1x

what exactly is Apache & ISS? I opened a link once which was an IP address, and it took me to an "Apache Server" and it said that the server successfully installed a couple of plugins...i'm just not sure what they are.
July 29th, 2003, 07:41 PM
DeadAddict

Apache is a powerful, flexible, HTTP/1.1 compliant web server
it uses the latest protocols, including HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616)
it also provides full source code and comes with an unrestrictive license
runs on Windows NT/9x, Netware 5.x and above, OS/2, and most versions of Unix, as well as several other operating systems

I believe ISS stands for Internet security system
July 29th, 2003, 07:50 PM
journy101

>>>I believe ISS stands for Internet security system

IIS stands for Internet Information Services, it too is a web server. It came after PWS died off
Windows 9x came with PWS -> Personal Web Server.

I however would recomend Apache over IIS, for security reasons. Apache is spuorted by Win9x and higher.
July 30th, 2003, 01:33 PM
SirDice

Quote:

Originally posted here by journy101
IIS stands for Internet Information Services, it too is a web server. It came after PWS died off
Windows 9x came with PWS -> Personal Web Server.

You're right about the abreviation. IIS is the official Microsoft webserver. It comes bundled on all NT based server versions of Windows. PWS is just a stripped down (less options) version of IIS basicly meant for test and development. MS stopped supporting it a while ago.

The current version of IIS is 6.0 and is build into Windows 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/iis/