Web Server Administration
Course Code: IT17
►Course Objective
- use basic Linux commands;
- use basic Windows Server commands;
- install the Apache Web Server;
- install the Internet Information Server;
- configure the Domain Name Service (DNS);
- administer and manage a web server;
- monitor and analyze the web server environment e.g. review logs.
►Target Audience
- Security personnel who are currently tasked with assessing the technical risks of cloud computing
- Network and systems administrators who currently manage private clouds or need to leverage hybrid and/or public cloud services
- Technical auditors and consultants who need to gain a deeper understanding of cloud computing and security concerns
- Security and IT managers who need to understand the risks of cloud computing and advise business management of the risks and various approaches involved
►Course Outline
Day 1
Getting started
- Apache
- Webservers
- Apache features
- Apache versions
- Installing Apache
- Installing XAMPP
- Compiling Apache
- Running Apache
- Running Apache automatically: Unix/Linux & MS Windows
- Checking Apache is running
- Serving webpages
Day 2
Basic configuration
- Configuring Apache
- Directives
- Modules
- Enabling/disabling modules in Debian
- Checking configurations
- Logging
- Configuring log-file contents
- Specifying log-files
- Logging errors
- Browser error messages
- Custom error pages
- Server and directory index pages
- Custom index pages
Day 3
Serving multiple sites with virtual hosts
- Multiple sites on a server
- Setting up virtual host names
- Testing host names
- Enabling virtual hosts
- Defining virtual hosts
- Configuring vitual hosts
- Using virtual hosts
Day 4
Dynamic pages with CGI, Perl and PHP
- Dynamic pages
- CGI
- CGI programs
- Sample Unix shell CGI script
- Sample Perl CGI script
- Running CGI programs with Apache
- CGI parameters
- Perl CGI parameter example
- CGI issues
- PHP scripts
Day 5
Using modules
- Modules
- Loading modules mod_speling
- Which Modules Got Loaded ? mod_rewrite
- Why use mod_rewrite ?
- Rewrite Flags
- Rewrite Flags Flow Control
- Rewrite Flags Affect What is Sent to the Browser
- Rewrite Flags Affect Processing on the Server
- Internal Rewriting v Redirection
- Forcing Redirection
- Transforming URLs
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