How to stop google maps moving

It's annoying when you have a google map on a website and you try and scroll by it, but end up dragging it on mobile.

Well a solution!

In the gmap.js there is a function call called setOptions, in the parameter passed set 'draggable' : false, and that does the trick.

Preventing a Denial of Service attack on Wordpress

Preventing a DoS or Denial of Service attack on Wordpress is hard. These are the steps I took to prevent / stop a huge amount of traffic to Wordpress site which was causing it to crash after just a couple of minutes.

1. "yum list updates" - check to see if the Linux server is up-to-date
2. "sudo yum update" - make sure the Linux server is up-to-date
3. "yum install fail2ban", the config file is located here; "vi /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf"
4.  Install fail2ban wordpress plugin
5. "sudo curl https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-fail2ban/trunk/wordpress-hard.conf > /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/wordpress.conf" you may have to create is locally and do another sudo to move it in.
6. Edit the "/etc/fail2ban/jail.d/wordpress.conf" file as follows;

[wordpress]
enabled = true
filter = wordpress
logpath = /var/log/auth.log
port = http,https

7. Restart the fail2ban service; "service fail2ban restart"
8. However if you've auth protected Wordpress this may not be enough so do the following;
9. in the jail.conf add the following;

[http-get-dos]

enabled = true

port = http,https

filter = http-get-dos

logpath = /var/log/httpd/access_log

maxretry = 300 

findtime = 300

#ban for 500 minutes

bantime = 60000

action = iptables[name=HTTP, port=http, protocol=tcp]

[http-post-dos]

enabled = true

port = http,https

filter = http-post-dos

logpath = /var/log/httpd/access_log

maxretry = 15

findtime = 300

#ban for 500 minutes

bantime = 60000

action = iptables[name=HTTP, port=http, protocol=tcp]

10. Create a ttp-get-dos.conf file

# Author: http://www.go2linux.org

#

[Definition]

# Option: failregex

# Note: This regex will match any GET entry in your logs, so basically all valid and not valid entries are a match.

# You should set up in the jail.conf file, the maxretry and findtime carefully in order to avoid false positives.

failregex = ^ -.*GET

# Option: ignoreregex

# Notes.: regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.

# Values: TEXT

#

ignoreregex =

11. Create a ttp-post-dos.conf file

# Author: http://www.go2linux.org

#

[Definition]

# Option: failregex

# Note: This regex will match any GET entry in your logs, so basically all valid and not valid entries are a match.

# You should set up in the jail.conf file, the maxretry and findtime carefully in order to avoid false positives.

failregex = ^ -.*POST

# Option: ignoreregex

# Notes.: regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.

# Values: TEXT

#

ignoreregex =

12. Restart the fail2ban service; "service fail2ban restart"

That should start blocking those nasty DoS attacks quite well.

References
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-yum-command-howto/

https://www.maketecheasier.com/fail2ban-protect-apache-ddos/ - protect against DDoS