Need help ensuring my public mediawiki is safe before launch (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by xnx@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi, I'm setting up a public wiki using mediawiki and I'd like some help ensuring the server and mediawiki is safely setup before I start sharing it publicly. I installed it on Vultr using the mediawiki app from the Vultr Marketplace. Are there any things I should ensure before publicly sharing the link?

Some things I've done so far:

I disabled password login to the server so its only possible to login via ssh
I made it so I have to approve of any edits to the wiki
I still haven't enabled uploads of files because I want to ensure I only allow jpeg\png uploads.

I'm relatively new to running servers so any tips are highly appreciated.

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[-] saint@group.lt 1 points 1 year ago

sorry, this is kinda like a firewall, but protecting websites, so many vulnerabilities are filtered out. it does not protect you 100% percent (nothing does). it might be hard to setup, in that case there is an option to use waf as a service, i.e. - cloudflare has such offering, maybe there are others as well. i have looked into vultr - they seem to offer only a "usual" type of firewall, not http/application based.

[-] xnx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ah ok thanks for the info! Do you know if vultrs firewall would make installing fail2ban redundant?

[-] saint@group.lt 1 points 1 year ago

if you configure ssh access only from your home ip - then fail2ban is not needed.

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

But if your home ip ever changes, you‘re fucked. I would never do that. Pubkey is the way.

[-] saint@group.lt 2 points 1 year ago

usually i add more than 1 ip and also vultr firewall can be managed to change ip. tailscale can be used as well. there are options!

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

That’s good! Had me worried there.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Method of authentication doesn't matter if there's a pre-authentication vulnerability: https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/openssh-releases-patch-for-new-pre-auth.html

Instead of exposing multiple services, I would recommend just one VPN for remote access. Less attack surface.

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Thats how I do it. But I also have physical access so if the vpn fails I don’t get locked out.

[-] xnx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh perfect thanks

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