Need help ensuring my public mediawiki is safe before launch

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

Oh perfect thanks