title: Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache: Install, Administer, and Secure Your Own Web Server
author: Tony Steidler-Dennison
description: Tony Steidler-Dennison is a longtime Linux user, dating his first experience with Linux back to 1996. He's used Linux as his sole operating system at home, developed software on Linux systems, and administered such systems in environments as diverse as robotic telescope control, online shopping, presidential politics, and commercial aviation. Tony has coauthored two books on Linux and over the years, he's written more than a dozen magazine articles on topics from Drupal and content management systems to podcasting with open source tools. Since February 2005, he's engineered and hosted "The Roadhouse Podcast," a weekly hour of "the finest blues you've never heard." Since the purchase of an Intel-based Mac Mini, Tony has become both obsessed and fascinated with the operating system he calls "Linux with a pretty face."<br>
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  **MANAGING YOUR WORDPRESS**
  
   **SECURITY TIPS**
  
   **A STEP BY STEP GUIDE**
  
   **BY**
  
   **MADHAN KUMAR**
  
   **TABLE OF CONTENTS**
  
   **INTRODUCTION**
  
   **Chapter 1: Why and How to Protect Your**
  
   **WordPress website**
  
  Number 1: An essential measure: The use of a "strong" password Number 2:
  Blocking “brute force attacks”
  
  Number 3: Never use the WordPress "admin" account.
  
  Number 4: Limit the number of administrator accounts on your site and force
  users to choose strong passwords.
  
  Number 5: Changing the WordPress back office access URLs (wp-admin and wp-
  login)
  
  Number 6: Hide the WordPress version you are using Number 7: Change database
  prefix
  
  Number 8: Hide the true IP address of your site with CloudFlare Number 9: Get
  your site to HTTPS with CloudFlare Number 10: Disabling the XML-RPC interface
  
  Number 11: Blocking navigation of your WordPress folders Number 12: Disabling
  the File Editor
  
  Number 13: Disabling the execution of PHP files in certain WordPres