By default, most pre-packaged apache installations come with full information leakage, so if you telnet to port 80 on your webserver you can check, just type in the GET / HTTP/1.1 line, then hit enter twice
#telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
GET / HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:59:37 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-18
Content-Length: 337
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Here we see the Apache version, the distro, and the php version. If you had any extra apache modules installed, it would also show them as well as their versions. We can easily fix this by modifying the config file which will be distribution dependent. On Debian/Ubuntu its /etc/apache2/apache2.conf,We will need to modify the ServerSignature and ServerTokens lines, if you don’t have them, add them in. Here’s what they should be set to
ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod
Now you need to Secure PHP version information
By default when php serves a page your header will show
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.X.X
You need to modify the php.ini and set the expose_php variable to Off. For Debian/Ubuntu, the file is /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini (If you are using php5 you need to edit this file /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini) . This will remove the X-Powered-By line.
expose_php = Off
Another problem in php could be display_errors, you want this turned off for a production web site because it might provide file paths or other informaiton.
display_errors = Off
Now you need to restart the apache web server using the following command
#/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Test your Apache server
telnet to port 80 on your webserver just type in the GET / HTTP/1.1 line, then hit enter twice
# telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
GET / HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:59:37 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 337
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Now you can see in the above information you don’t find any apache version details,Distro and php version details.
I was just looking for this.
Im almost 3 years to late lol but its usefull.
Does anybody know how to give out custom text instead of
Apache/x (Debian) PHP/x+lenny4 with Suhosin-Patch Server at x Port 80
Thanks
If you use XAMPP (v2.5.8) look for the file named httpd-default.conf under etcxamppapacheconfextra and then make the necessary changes (ServerSignature Off, ServerTokens Prod).
I was not able to find this info in the net. Hope it helps someone.