Learning Apache Web Server Administration Hands-on training

Course details

Course Contents

1. Introduction

• Basic Setup
• Verify installation
• Package files
• Main configuration file(s)
• Backup
• Edit the httpd.conf configuration file
• ServerRoot
• PidFile
• ServerName
• Add site to /etc/hosts file
• DocumentRoot
• ErrorLog
• Listen
• Create your HTML documents
• Start the Web Server
• Access the web site
• Local access
• Internal & external access
• Summary of basic setup

2. Advanced setup

• Directory tags            
• Order (allow, deny)      
• Indexes
• DirectoryMatch
• Files tags

3. Virtual Hosts

• Single IP, two websites         
• Two IPs, two websites     
• Other scenarios           
• Modules                
• Module types             
• View installed modules   
• LoadModule             
• .htaccess
• Create .htaccess file             
• Create .htpasswd file             
• Copy .htaccess to restricted directory        
• Configure httpd.conf to allow authentication via .htaccess   
• Test setup               
• Other configurations            
• Disable web access to .htaccess       

4. Secure Web servers

• Encrypted Sessions      
• Limitations               
• Main configuration file(s)           
• Edit the ssl.conf configuration file  
• Openssl & Mod_ssl    
• LoadModule             
• Listen            
• VirtualHost             
• Create SSL certificate          
• Create Certificate Authority (CA)      
• Create server key           
• Edit ssl.conf configuration file
• Server Certificate          
• Server Private Key           
• Certificate Authority           
• Test setup