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Checking Your Website Security with Nikto

Introduction

To verify your configuration file and test potential security vulnerabilities, here's a practical Perl script called Nikto. These are the most well-known security audit applications similar to Nikto:

Installation and Configuration

Here's the documentation I found:

Apache Security Testing

For those who don't want to recompile packages:

aptitude install nikto

Then it's simple, as described in the documentation:

nikto -h localhost

Resources