Learning Apache Web Server Administration on Red Hat Linux

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