A geeky friend of mine just told me that he's been seeing hackers slip a few lines of code into their Apache web server configuration and have all their traffic redirected to porn sites. Now I'm paranoid! How can I detect if this has happened to my own server?...

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I run a fairly busy Web site with a variety of different image directories. The problem is, Apache shows directories in a fairly rudimentary way which makes it quite difficult to find a specific image if I don't remember its name. Is there a better way with some sort of shell scripting?...

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I just checked and apparently both the "domain.com" and "www.domain.com" work for my site, bringing up the same page with different URLs. According to an SEO buddy of mine, that's a bad thing. Is it? And if so, how can I tweak my web server configuration to fix it?...

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