A Dutch web developer has created a rootkit that hides inside a PHP module and can be used to take over web servers via a rarely used attack vector: Apache modules.

Since I was installing PHP as a dynamic Apache module, Apache had to be installed before PHP. While Apache is installed by default in most Linux distributions, it may not support dynamic modules.

The built-in Apache PHP module, "mod_php," is one of those modules that can have issues running multi-threaded. I was faced with quite a bit of software ripping and replacing to switch from mod ...

The Apache Toolbox uses the installwatch library to log the results of the compile and the install process for each module to the logs directory. If you have elected to install PHP, you are given the ...

PHP HTML file upload tutorial Don’t fret if you’re a developer with an Apache web server and the goal is to code an HTML5 and PHP file upload component. Modern browsers, along with simplified ...

Friends don’t let friends use mod_php inappropriately I want to make incredibly clear what we have not installed—we did not, and will not, install the mod_php Apache module.

This indicates how tightly bound into the Apache Web server the module is; in other words, you may need to recompile the server in order to gain access to the module and its functionality ...