Tag: login
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Securing PHP login with Fail2Ban
Brute force attacks are a common issue for webapps. Combining Fail2Ban in Centos(Linux) and PHP logging can provide a powerful tool for temporarily or even permanently banning users from even reaching your server. This is an extreme measure but it is clean, simple and very effective. The article below requires the following perquisites: In this…
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Redirecting to login in Codeigniter 4
Codeigniter 4 has introduced a much easier way to redirect un-authenticated traffic on a website to a login page. It relies basically on a request filter mechanism which can perform an action “before” the initially intended action takes place. In simple terms, what this article aims to explain, is the process in which a visitor…