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This document provides an overview of the Apache web server, including: - A brief history of web servers beginning in the late 1980s and early development of Apache. - Details on installing, configuring, and using Apache for tasks like web publishing, virtual hosting, and security/performance tuning. - Examples of common Apache configurations including changing port settings and enabling basic authentication.

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Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Web Server Administration Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in Advanced Centre for Informatics & Innovative Learning Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi September 09, 2010 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion What is a Web Server? Definition “...A web server is a computer program that serves content, such as web pages, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, over the World Wide Web...”(Source: Wikipedia) Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University 1993: Marc Andressen developed Mosaic as first graphical web browser Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University 1993: Marc Andressen developed Mosaic as first graphical web browser 1995: Robert McCool & Eric Bina developed NCSA HTTPd Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University 1993: Marc Andressen developed Mosaic as first graphical web browser 1995: Robert McCool & Eric Bina developed NCSA HTTPd 1995: Apache webserver project commenced Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Events Chronology First Web server Figure: First World Wide Web Server at CERN (Courtesy:Wikipedia) Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Why Study Apache Figure: Netcraft Web Server Survey-May 2010 Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning How to install Apache In Ubuntu GNU/Linux: sudo apt-get install apache2 [from Terminal] OR System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager In Windows: Follow the steps given at the following website: http://tinyurl.com/2rac4s Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Virtual Hosting [More about Virtual Hosting] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Virtual Hosting [More about Virtual Hosting] Proxy Server [Apache:As forward proxy server] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Virtual Hosting [More about Virtual Hosting] Proxy Server [Apache:As forward proxy server] Reverse Proxy Server [Apache:As reverse proxy server] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Virtual Hosts Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Virtual Hosts IP based [Click to know more] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Virtual Hosts IP based [Click to know more] Name based [Click to know more] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Security Reference: [Apache Securing Tips] Keep up to date Permissions on ServerRoot directories Server Side Includes Protecting System Settings Prevent Directory traversal Continous monitoring of access & error logs Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Hostname lookups and DNS [Postprocessing of logs in dedicated syslog servers] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Hostname lookups and DNS [Postprocessing of logs in dedicated syslog servers] Sendfile kernel support [Static content faster with lower CPU utilization] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Hostname lookups and DNS [Postprocessing of logs in dedicated syslog servers] Sendfile kernel support [Static content faster with lower CPU utilization] Process Creation [Worker(Scalabilty), Prefork(Stability, Compatibility)] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Figure: MPM-Worker module: Apache Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] 3 How to allow simple user authentication [Click for Screencast] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] 3 How to allow simple user authentication [Click for Screencast] 4 How to enable virtual hosting [Click for Screencast] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] 3 How to allow simple user authentication [Click for Screencast] 4 How to enable virtual hosting [Click for Screencast] 5 How to enable SSL support encrypting web-transaction [Reference Web resource: SSL support for Apache] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion References Elective Course by Hamish Whittal & Mathew West, The Shuttleworth Foundation Apache HTTP Server Documentation Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References Open Discussion Open Discussion Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning

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Webserver Administration: Apache as a case study

  • 1.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Web Server Administration Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in Advanced Centre for Informatics & Innovative Learning Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi September 09, 2010 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 2.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion What is a Web Server? Definition “...A web server is a computer program that serves content, such as web pages, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, over the World Wide Web...”(Source: Wikipedia) Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 3.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 4.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 5.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 6.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University 1993: Marc Andressen developed Mosaic as first graphical web browser Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 7.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University 1993: Marc Andressen developed Mosaic as first graphical web browser 1995: Robert McCool & Eric Bina developed NCSA HTTPd Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 8.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Events Chronology First Web server A bit of history 1 1987: Larry Wall creates a programming language called PERL widely used later for website applications 1989: Tim Berners Lee & Robert Calliliau proposed World Wide Web based on ENQUIRE 1991: Paul Kunz installs first web server in US at Stanford University 1993: Marc Andressen developed Mosaic as first graphical web browser 1995: Robert McCool & Eric Bina developed NCSA HTTPd 1995: Apache webserver project commenced Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 9.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Events Chronology First Web server Figure: First World Wide Web Server at CERN (Courtesy:Wikipedia) Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 10.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 11.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Why Study Apache Figure: Netcraft Web Server Survey-May 2010 Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 12.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning How to install Apache In Ubuntu GNU/Linux: sudo apt-get install apache2 [from Terminal] OR System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager In Windows: Follow the steps given at the following website: http://tinyurl.com/2rac4s Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 13.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 14.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 15.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Virtual Hosting [More about Virtual Hosting] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 16.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Virtual Hosting [More about Virtual Hosting] Proxy Server [Apache:As forward proxy server] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 17.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache features Web publishing of static and dynamic content Secure web interaction Virtual Hosting [More about Virtual Hosting] Proxy Server [Apache:As forward proxy server] Reverse Proxy Server [Apache:As reverse proxy server] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 18.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 19.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 20.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 21.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 22.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 23.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 24.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 25.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 26.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Virtual Hosts Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 27.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Virtual Hosts IP based [Click to know more] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 28.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache configurations details Global Configuration Settings Maximum and minimum numbers of servers to start Server root directory Port settings for server Main server configuration settings ServerAdmin Directive DocumentRoot Directive Port Configuration Virtual Hosts IP based [Click to know more] Name based [Click to know more] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 29.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Security Reference: [Apache Securing Tips] Keep up to date Permissions on ServerRoot directories Server Side Includes Protecting System Settings Prevent Directory traversal Continous monitoring of access & error logs Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 30.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 31.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Hostname lookups and DNS [Postprocessing of logs in dedicated syslog servers] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 32.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Hostname lookups and DNS [Postprocessing of logs in dedicated syslog servers] Sendfile kernel support [Static content faster with lower CPU utilization] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 33.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Apache Performance Tuning Reference: [Apache Performance Tuning Web resource] Hardware and Operating System Issues [RAM, Swap space, CPU, Stable OS version] Hostname lookups and DNS [Postprocessing of logs in dedicated syslog servers] Sendfile kernel support [Static content faster with lower CPU utilization] Process Creation [Worker(Scalabilty), Prefork(Stability, Compatibility)] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 34.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Statistics Installation Features Configuration Details Security Performance Tuning Figure: MPM-Worker module: Apache Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 35.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 36.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 37.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] 3 How to allow simple user authentication [Click for Screencast] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 38.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] 3 How to allow simple user authentication [Click for Screencast] 4 How to enable virtual hosting [Click for Screencast] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 39.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Sample demonstrations 1 How to publish HTML pages [Reference Web Resource: View answer by Tipo] 2 How to change the default port number [Reference Web Resource] 3 How to allow simple user authentication [Click for Screencast] 4 How to enable virtual hosting [Click for Screencast] 5 How to enable SSL support encrypting web-transaction [Reference Web resource: SSL support for Apache] Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 40.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion References Elective Course by Hamish Whittal & Mathew West, The Shuttleworth Foundation Apache HTTP Server Documentation Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning
  • 41.
    Introduction History Case Study: Apache Demonstration References OpenDiscussion Open Discussion Sukant Kole sukant@ignou.ac.in PGDEL-MDEI004: Technologies for E-Learning