XModulo shows you how to secure a LAMP server on CentOS or RHEL
LAMP is a software stack composed of Linux (an operating system as a base layer), Apache (a web server that "sits on top" of the OS), MySQL (or MariaDB, as a relational database management system), and finally PHP (a server-side scripting language that is used to process and display information stored in the database).How to secure a LAMP server on CentOS or RHEL
In this article we will assume that each component of the stack is already up and running, and will focus exclusively on securing the LAMP server(s). We must note, however, that server-side security is a vast subject, and therefore cannot be addressed adequately and completely in a single article.