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| author | Florian Apolloner <florian@apolloner.eu> | 2012-11-27 22:26:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Apolloner <florian@apolloner.eu> | 2012-12-10 22:14:16 +0100 |
| commit | 319627c184e71ae267d6b7f000e293168c7b6e09 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e48a2084e8ea17b422e6cf3611a49bccfe9517e /docs | |
| parent | b2ae0a63aeec741f1e51bac9a95a27fd635f9652 (diff) | |
[1.4.X] Fixed a security issue in get_host.
Full disclosure and new release forthcoming.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/security.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/security.txt b/docs/topics/security.txt index 151853d4ac..0b5112803c 100644 --- a/docs/topics/security.txt +++ b/docs/topics/security.txt @@ -167,6 +167,33 @@ recommend you ensure your Web server is configured such that: Additionally, as of 1.3.1, Django requires you to explicitly enable support for the ``X-Forwarded-Host`` header if your configuration requires it. +Configuration for Apache +------------------------ + +The easiest way to get the described behavior in Apache is as follows. Create +a `virtual host`_ using the ServerName_ and ServerAlias_ directives to restrict +the domains Apache reacts to. Please keep in mind that while the directives do +support ports the match is only performed against the hostname. This means that +the ``Host`` header could still contain a port pointing to another webserver on +the same machine. The next step is to make sure that your newly created virtual +host is not also the default virtual host. Apache uses the first virtual host +found in the configuration file as default virtual host. As such you have to +ensure that you have another virtual host which will act as catch-all virtual +host. Just add one if you do not have one already, there is nothing special +about it aside from ensuring it is the first virtual host in the configuration +file. Debian/Ubuntu users usually don't have to take any action, since Apache +ships with a default virtual host in ``sites-available`` which is linked into +``sites-enabled`` as ``000-default`` and included from ``apache2.conf``. Just +make sure not to name your site ``000-abc``, since files are included in +alphabetical order. + +.. _virtual host: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/ +.. _ServerName: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#servername +.. _ServerAlias: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#serveralias + + + + Additional security topics ========================== |