Monthly Archives: October 2008

lighttpd won’t start and doesn’t output or log any error message

Posted on October 30, 2008 by

I was working on a server and for some reason lighttpd wouldn’t start for some odd reason. Running it via Debian/Ubuntu “invoke-rc.d lighttpd start” or “/etc/init.d/lighttpd start” wouldn’t reveal an error message or anything in the log.

I hop’d on irc.freenode.net and put some information about my problem in the channel #lighttpd channel.

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Apache2 Directory Listing Doesn’t List Password Protected Folders

Posted on October 22, 2008 by

If you’ve ever used Apache2 and .htaccess with the “Options Indexes” value to show the content listing of a directory. You would know that unfortunately Apache2 doesn’t show folders that are forbidden or password protected.
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Use Your Video Card To Crack Secured Wireless AP’s

Posted on October 15, 2008 by

It looks as though a company called “Elcomsoft” is using NVIDIA developer tools to create software that cracks Secured Wireless AP’s.

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