Apache Web Server Administration Training

Goals

• Learn how install Apache Web Server.
• Understand the basic operation of Apache.
• Learn how to configure Apache.
• Understand how to implement URL mapping.
• Learn how to provide directory indexing.
• Learn how to performance tune the web server.
• Understand techniques to secure Apache.

Outline

1. Apache Web Server
   1. The Apache Web Server
   2. Features
   3. Download
   4. Windows
   5. Linux
2. Directory Structure
   1. Apache Directories
   2. The Role of Each Directory
   3. bin
   4. cgi-bin
   5. conf
   6. error
   7. htdocs
   8. icons
   9. include
   10. lib
   11. modules
   12. Document Root
3. httpd.conf Configuration
   1. Contents of httpd.conf
   2. Coding Directives, Containers, and Comments
   3. Directives
   4. Containers
   5. Comments
   6. Scope of Directives
   7. Order of Evaluation of Containers
   8. Making Port Assignments
   9. Specifying the Document Root
   10. Including Files
   11. Modularization and Organization
   12. Guidelines for Modularization
   13. Organization
   14. Verifying the Syntax of httpd.conf
   15. Updating httpd.conf between Releases
   16. Securing httpd.conf
4. Load Modules
   1. Dynamic Shared Objects
   2. The Core Module
   3. Static Modules
   4. Building Modules from Source and Installing from a Package
   5. Relationship between Modules and Directives
   6. LoadModule Directive
   7. Using a Module’s Directives
   8. MIME Types and mod_mime
5. Security
   1. Secure Socket Layer
   2. Creating a Certificate
   3. Server Setup
   4. Access Control
   5. Host and IP
   6. Authentication
   7. Basic Authentication
   8. Digest Authentication
   9. How Apache Implements Authorization
   10. LDAP Authentication and Authorization
6. Logging
   1. Logging Overview
   2. The Error Log
   3. The Access, Agent, and Referer Logs
   4. CustomLog
   5. Formatting the Log Record with LogFormat
   6. Log Rotation
7. Configuring Directories
   1. Directory Containers in httpd.conf
   2. The Options Directive
   3. Directory Indexing
   4. IndexOptions
   5. DirectoryIndex
   6. Excluding Files with IndexIgnore
   7. .htaccess
   8. Handling HTTP Status Codes with Error Documents
   9. Location Containers
8. Virtual Hosts
   1. Virtual Host Container
   2. Setting Up the Virtual Host
   3. IP-based
   4. Name-based
   5. Port-based
9. Using Aliases and Redirecting
   1. Configuring an Alias for a URL
   2. Redirect
   3. Using mod_rewrite
10. Performance Considerations
    1. Adjusting httpd.conf
    2. DNS Name Lookup
    3. Logging I/O
    4. Web Applications
    5. Network Issues
11. Customizing Request/Response Processing
    1. Handlers and Requests
    2. Built-in Handlers
    3. Handler Directives
    4. SetHandler
    5. AddHandler
    6. RemoveHandler
    7. Filters
12. PHP
    1. PHP
    2. Download and Installation
    3. Windows
    4. Linux
    5. Apache Configuration
    6. Writing a Basic PHP Web Page
    7. Using MySQL with Apache and PHP
    8. WordPress

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