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RE: easy remote detection of a running tripwire for webpages syst em


From: Jonathan Sartin <jonathan.sartin () rubus com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:27:11 +0100

You need to set the ServerTokens directive in httpd.conf to reveal only
those things that you feel appropriate about the server.

Options are:

min - will return the product and version (i.e. Apache/1.3.0)
os - will return product version and operating system.
full - will return everything, including the installed modules (as you
noted, and probably a bad thing).
product_only - will return just the product (i.e. Apache)

default seems to be full.

Examples:

ServerTokens Prod[uctOnly] 
     Server sends (e.g.): Server: Apache 
ServerTokens Min[imal] 
     Server sends (e.g.): Server: Apache/1.3.0 
ServerTokens OS 
     Server sends (e.g.): Server: Apache/1.3.0 (Unix) 
ServerTokens Full (or not specified) 
     Server sends (e.g.): Server: Apache/1.3.0 (Unix) PHP/3.0 MyMod/1.2 

Note that this works on the server config level and therefore cannot be set
for individual virtualhosts.

Cheers .... J


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