Author: Yassine Haddioui

Passwords and security in general

We have seen many websites having their databases with sensitive information like passwords leaked. Recently, we heard LinkedIn having troubles, I also remember GOMTV asking their customers to change their passwords. Anyway, I had to change all my passwords twice since fall 2011. The first big mistake I realized is that I use the same email/password […]

FastCGI 500 Internal Server Error while uploading files bigger then 100kb

Solution for (media temple) dv 4.0 : The problem is that the request length is limited to 128Kb by default when using FastCGI. In order to solve the problem, it’s easy, but you need root access to the server running apache. Edit file : /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgid.conf Add Line (set 32MB limit) : MaxRequestLen 32000000 Save. Restart […]