Re: [Slashcode-general] mod_rewrite?

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

> Of course if someone has another suggestion for deflecting evil scanning
> threads, I am all ears.

All I did was comment out the line that enabled the 404 error page to be 
generated by Slash from the site's .conf file.  My bandwidth usage went down 
dramatically after that.

mod_rewrite may be a better solution though, so you can still have a 
"slashlike" 404 for other users.

I think you probably will need to recompile Apache.  The Slash instructions 
seem to build a pretty static httpd.

As for recompiling Apache, you might want to look at my instructions here for 
enabling PHP:
http://slashcode.com/comments.pl?sid=01/05/15/1617259&op=&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&startat=&cid=2
and then take out all the PHP stuff and add to the Apache configure line:
--activate-module=src/modules/standard/mod_rewrite.c

I'm not sure if you'd need to do more than that or not, but I think that 
would do it.

I actually played with mod_rewrite on someone else's server lately, and I 
think I'm intrigued enough to compile it into my own.  But not right now, 
have better things to do. :-)

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