Precautions to Host my Live application

Hi Parvinderg,

The very first thing that you may need to do is to secure the server at the OS level.  Turning off the unneded services.  have firewall running, and such.

On Apache, you could visit Apache docs website at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/, and specifically some tips on Security : http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/security_tips.html

Apache itself is considered to be quite mature, and quite stable (performance/security-wise) -  so the apache server is less of your worries.

The next thing to worry is the application itself -- which some code may have bugs which lead to "unknown" result.  Check this too.

Apart from these tips, monitor your server closely, mod_status (http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_status.html) is provided with apache to enable you to view the server status on-line (realtime). This should be able to give you some indication on what is happening, shoud you think that your apache is behaving weirdly.


HTH.

Any other suggestions Mr.Hoffmann or Mr.Samri? Mr.Hoffmann, you have mentioned a couple of ways of reviewing the application.How would u advise me to let the application developer accomplish this task (as i am not developing the application) ? Mr.Samri the link of the company which you are working for is fantastic.I appreciate that.
regards

I have almost followed all those steps which were mentioned by hoffman and samri plus i found very valuable information at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1786.
Wots the function of suExec and chroot?
How can i implement those too without disturbing my current cnofiguration or messing up with that?
Any other suggestions which i really need to focus on.How can i test for the security and robustness.?
Regards