Password Protecting with .htaccess

1. create password file with encrypted password. Save password file as .ht{something} outside web root if possible.

for example .htukrpass file contain following
username:password

2. create .htaccess file with following content


AuthUserFile {fullpath to .htukrpass file}
AuthType Basic
AuthName "our test source dir"
Require valid-user
require user {username}

connect to mailbox with IMAP - php

install

• php-imap
• php-cli

modules in-order to work IMAP with php.

search for the  following line in your php.ini file

extension = imap.so

then search for the imap.ini file in /etc/php5/conf.d directory , if not exist create it with following line in it.

extension = imap.so


then restart apache server.

use following php sample code with your server name and user credentials to check connectivity.

XMPP chat logging with bandersnatch

add this in the modules section of ejabberd config file:

  {mod_service_log, [{loggers, ["localhost"]}]}

add this in the listeners section of ejabberd config file, you can use your own password:

  {5526, ejabberd_service, [{ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}}, {access, all},
                          {hosts, ["localhost"],
                          [{password, "secret"}]}]},

create bandersnatch database using given sql. make sure to remove TYPE=MyISAM if you are using innoDB mysql engine. and replace datatype timestamp(14) ,from timestamp all CREATE TABLE scripts.

modify bandersnatch/config.xml with the password.

  <server>
        <connectiontype>tcpip</connectiontype>
        <hostname>localhost</hostname>
        <port>5526</port>
    <secret>secret</secret>
</server>
<component>
    <name>localhost</name>
</component>

change,privacy value in site tag to 0.you need this change to set privacy level to log chat messages with sender and receiver details.

install the perl dependencies:

  sudo apt-get install libnet-jabber-perl

configure Perl interface to the SHA-1 algorithm using cpan.

  install Digest::SHA1

found bug in bandersnatch module you need to import Digest::SHA1 in order to make this work,add following line

  use Digest::SHA1  qw(sha1 sha1_hex sha1_base64);

in /usr/share/perl5/Net/Jabber/Component.pm

to start bandersnatch service

  perl bandersnatch config.xml




PHP exec, the java process takes 100% CPU (SOLVED)

Exec is always tricky, on any language :-)

Try to:

use background execution (add & symbol at the end)
use shell_exec instead
specify the full path to java executable (may be the one available to PHP is not the one you need?)

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="";
in the exec call:

REpresentational State Transfer(REST) and security

What is REST?
Client sends a request to the server witch responds with a representation of required informational Object.This respond usually formatted in JSON or XML.

A RESTful service normally provides two
components in its responses, the response body itself and a status code.Most of the REST servers allow users to specify a response format by sending ACCEPT parameter or by specifying a file extension.Others have hard-coded response formats.

Security Aspects

By Accepting certain data type,certain length and validating each request.

Authenticating/Authorizing requests : by making developers to register for a API key and validate key against the stored key for that particular developer.

by having quotas and data limits

finally by using SSL to encrypt communication.