Most Internet servers sit behind firewalls and use detection scripts to send alerts when break?ins are attempted. Some system administrators even run software to detect portscanners and denial?of?service attempts. However, many system administrators still overlook security problems in CGI scripts and web applications.
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To install PHP on an NT/2000/XP Server running IIS 4 or newer, follow these instructions. You have two options to set up PHP, using the CGI binary (php.exe in PHP 4, or php-cgi.exe in PHP 5) or with the ISAPI module. In either case, you need to start the Microsoft Management Console (may appear as ‘Internet Services Manager’, either in your Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack branch or the Control Panel=>Administrative Tools under Windows 2000/XP). Then right click on your Web server node (this will most probably appear as ‘Default Web Server’), and select ‘Properties’.
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The MegaUpload software can be found on sourceforge, the project is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaupload/ and the current version can be downloaded at the following address: http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/megaupload/megaupload-1.45.tar.gz Here is how you download and extract the archive on Linux: [bozz@nightmare tmp]$ wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/megaupload/megaupload-1.45.tar.gz –07:16:41– http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/megaupload/megaupload-1.45.tar.gz => `megaupload-1.45.tar.gz’ Resolving umn.dl.sourceforge.net… 128.101.240.209 Connecting to umn.dl.sourceforge.net|128.101.240.209|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK Length: 20,844 (20K) [application/x-gzip] 100%[==========================================>] 20,844 07:16:41 (130.08 KB/s) - `megaupload-1.45.tar.gz’ saved [20844/20844] [bozz@nightmare tmp]$ gunzip megaupload-1.45.tar.gz [bozz@nightmare tmp]$ tar -xf megaupload-1.45.tar [bozz@nightmare tmp]$ cd megaupload-1.45 [bozz@nightmare megaupload-1.45]$ ls cgi-bin Changes classic contrib docs
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