Everybody Hates DOS

(Denial of service attacks, that is)

httpd.conf Directives to Control Resource Use

RLimitCPU
Limit server CPU time

RLimitMEM
Limit server memory usage

RLimitNPROC
Limit number of processes the server can spawn

LimitRequestBody
Limit size of the request body

LimitRequestFields
Limit the number of HTTP fields in header

LimitRequestFieldSize
Limit the size of the largest field in header

LimitRequestLine
Limit the larget request line that can be sent
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Lincoln D. Stein, lstein@cshl.org
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Last modified: Sun Jul 16 18:47:38 PDT 2000