Kuenselonline, the Bhutan’s largest news website has blocked google from their website. Isn’t google the biggest search engine in the world? looks like they dont want all the free traffic you get from google. LOL
Secure CentOS Linux with iptables

Iptables is best linux firewall available. Use this to secure your linux with iptables.
Make sure to save the iptables configuration.
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Secure IPTables Configuration:
*filter :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :INPUT DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT DROP [0:0] ## Block IPs here -A INPUT -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DROP -A INPUT -i eth0 -f -j DROP -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG NONE -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG FIN,PSH,URG -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN FIN,SYN -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN,RST -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags FIN,RST FIN,RST -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags FIN,ACK FIN -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags PSH,ACK PSH -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags ACK,URG URG -j DROP ## Open all your needed ports here -A INPUT -p tcp -m state -m tcp --dport 25 --state NEW -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state -m tcp --dport 80 --state NEW -j ACCEPT ## Allow your IPs here -A INPUT -p tcp -m state -m tcp -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/255.255.255.0 --dport 10000 --state NEW -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m state ! --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,ACK SYN --state NEW -j DROP -A INPUT -f -j DROP -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -p udp -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -p icmp -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT COMMIT *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] COMMIT *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] COMMIT
Secure CentOS with sysctl.conf
Secure your CentOS installation with sysctl, Replace your sysctl.conf with the configuration given below, this is the best configuration you can do.
# Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux # # For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and # sysctl.conf(5) for more details. net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 kernel.sysrq = 0 kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1 net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.log_martians = 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.secure_redirects = 0 ########## IPv6 networking start ############## # Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no routers are present. # This is host and not router net.ipv6.conf.default.router_solicitations = 0 # Accept Router Preference in RA? net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_rtr_pref = 0 # Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_pinfo = 0 # Setting controls whether the system will accept Hop Limit settings from a router advertisement net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_defrtr = 0 #router advertisements can cause the system to assign a global unicast address to an interface net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf = 0 #how many neighbor solicitations to send out per address? net.ipv6.conf.default.dad_transmits = 0 # How many global unicast IPv6 addresses can be assigned to each interface? net.ipv6.conf.default.max_addresses = 1 ########## IPv6 networking ends ############## # Enable ExecShield protection kernel.exec-shield = 1 kernel.randomize_va_space = 1 # increase system file descriptor limit fs.file-max = 65535 # Allow for more PIDs kernel.pid_max = 65536 #Increase system IP port limits net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 11000 65000 # Reboot after a kernel panic kernel.panic = 30
CentOS Web server with Latest Apache, PHP and MySQL
Setup perfect CentOS Web server with latest Apache, PHP and MySQL.

Make sure you have installed CentOS with minimal system tools.
I am going to use my home directory as root folder.
cd ~import RPM-GPG-KEY
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*
Update Everything using YUM
yum -y updateReboot your Server.
reboot
Install Some Required Packages
yum install fetchmail wget bzip2 unzip zip nmap openssl lynx fileutils
Setup System Time
yum install ntp chkconfig ntpd on ntpdate pool.ntp.org /etc/init.d/ntpd start
Install RPMForge Repo
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm yum clean all yum update
Use Remi’s Repo for Latest PHP and MySQL
rpm --import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm
Enable Remi’s Repo
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo [remi] enabled=1
Install Apache and PHP Server
yum install httpd chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on yum install php php-mysql php-gd php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc curl perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 ## Edit Apache Configuration, if you need. nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Install MySQL Server
yum install mysql mysql-server chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on /etc/init.d/mysqld start ## Change your MySQL Password mysql_secure_installation ## Check if MySQL is running netstat -tap | grep mysql ## Edit MySQL Configuration, if you need. nano /etc/my.cnf
Install eAccelerator – PHP Caching, Makes your php load faster
yum install php-eacceleratorInstall PhpMyAdmin
yum install phpmyadminStart Apache Server
service httpd restart
Check Apache
apachectl -MOutput
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
Loaded Modules:
core_module (static)
mpm_prefork_module (static)
...
Syntax OKCheck PHP
php -vOutput
PHP 5.3.6 (cli) (built: May 16 2011 19:18:00) Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies with eAccelerator v0.9.6.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2010 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
Web server with Latest PHP and MySQL is done!
Install Webmin if you want
yum install openssl perl-Net-SSLeay rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
Add Webmin Repo
nano /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo
Add This
[Webmin] name=Webmin Distribution Neutral #baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum mirrorlist=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist enabled=1
Install Webmin
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Junk Snail Mail
sudo – With great power comes great responsibility
Tashel – Online Visa System
Tashel Online, The online visa system for Tour Operators of Bhutan.
Tashel Online allows Tour Operators to apply to visa, receive approved visas on email, generate tour invoice, download army permits and get notices.
This Project was done in collaboration with Tourism Council of Bhutan and Department of Immigration.
Project Details
Web Technology: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
Software: Microsoft .NET 2008 with MySQL
Tshering Tobgay’s new Blog – tsheringtobgay.com
Just Launched Tshering Tobgay’s (PDP President and Opposition Leader) new Blog, He had been using blogger till now and has gained so much popularity online! He is one of the most popular and regular blogger from Bhutan. I am indeed really privillaged to design a blog for him!

Blog URL: www.tsheringtobgay.com
Blog Software: WordPress
Scripts/Languages: PHP/MySQL






