Re: [cobalt-security] .htaccess on RaQ4's

["David Conorozzo" <davidc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would have been nice of them to tell everyone that they had made that change... I have a RaQ3i and 4r, and I have had problems with htaccess on both, so I didn't into the config on the 4r for a while after having problems.. I actually called tech support on this issue and the level one tech. asked his manager and they had no idea as to what the problem could have been.  They then told me that a level 2 tech. would call me.  That was 1 week ago.  I am very disappointed with Cobalt as of late.

I also discovered that the genericstable option is not enabled by default in SendMail... Isn't it strange that a box that is specifically designed to do "virtual hosting" doesn't have this feature enabled by default and that Cobalt refuses to give support on how to set this up?  I asked them why it is not set up by default and I never got an answer just a reply like so:

David,

Thank you for contacting Cobalt Networks technical support.

This is an issue that is beyond the scope of Cobalt Networks technical support
and could potentially void your warranty.   Cobalt Networks does provide
Professional Services to aid you in the implementation of unsupported issues for a fee.  Please email prosvc@xxxxxxxxxx or call 650-623-2679.


Terri Sevor
Support Technician, Cobalt Networks


They want me to pay them to answer a question as to why they did something a particular way???

>>> Martin Moeller <martin@xxxxxxx> 08/30/00 09:01AM >>>

Hello guys and guyettes.

The one RaQ4 we've got into production at this state had a very
unfortunate default setting in the access.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.

/home/sites had a default of 'AllowOverride None', so no .htaccess or any
other restrictiveness would ever work... I have not yet verified this on
other RaQ4's but intend to soon. If this is really the default setting,
can someone please give a reason for this?

Also, I've had problems with PHP4 support until I changed the MIME type
from application/x-httpd-php4 to application/x-httpd-php, which I believe
is the standard anyway? Either no action has been associated with that
MIME type or it was a typo?

The precompiled version of PHP4 on the RaQ4 also seems to expect MySQL's
socket file in /tmp/mysql.sock and not /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock, which is
where MySQL RPMS place it... A symlink works, but is somewhat kludgy...

I'd like to hear anyone elses experiances with RaQ4's on the above or any
other points and spark som discussion as to what settings are preferable.


Regards,

/Martin Moeller, Liga ApS, Denmark.


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