hiding Aache information

[Soo-Hyun Choi]

Hi Nick,

Tracy Philips already gave me an answer for this question earlier.
Thanks for your reply though. :)

Soo-Hyun



On Dec 25, 2007 5:26 PM, Nick Webb <webbn at acm.org> wrote:

> On Dec 18, 2007 8:28 AM, Soo-Hyun Choi <s.choi at hackers.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running a web server with Ubuntu 7.10 + Apache 2.2.4. If I have a
> > create an empty directory and access through a web page, the web pages
> shows
> > up my Apache information along with other packages that are working with
> > Apache.
> >
> > For example, it shows:
> >  Apache/2.2.4 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.4 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.1
> > PHP/5.2.3-1ubuntu6.2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e Server at
> www.myserver.org
> > Port 80
> >
> > But, I would like to hide these information. Is there any particular way
> to
> > do this?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Soo-Hyun
> >
>
> Soo-Hyun,
>
> One way is to customize your apache error pages, see here:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/custom_errordocs.html#createdir
>
> I'd search the apache documentation, there may be a way to hide your
> specific installation information with the default pages.  Many regard
> removing this information as an important security step, so I wouldn't
> be surprised if it's there.
>
> Nick
>
> PS:  Sorry if you already got a reply to this, it ended up in my spam
> filter.
>
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