Apache Web Server Administration Training Course

Apache Fundamentals

• Understanding the concept of a web server
• The role of Apache in the web ecosystem
• Overview of HTTP
• Apache installation overview
• Lab: Installing Apache

Server Configuration

• Requirements for website deployment
• Addressing performance challenges
• The Apache configuration file
• Apache modules
• Distinguishing between shared and built-in modules
• Lab: Setting up a simple website

Logging

• Managing error logs
• Activating transfer logs
• Implementing custom logging
• Utilizing log filters
• Tools for analyzing log files
• Log file management strategies
• Lab: Enabling logging

Dynamic Content

• Accessing server status and information
• The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• Perl and mod_perl
• PHP
• Java servlets, JSP, and Tomcat
• Integrating Apache with Tomcat
• Lab: Enabling various forms of dynamic content

Access Control

• Restricting access by hostname and IP address
• Implementing password authentication via mod_auth
• Utilizing database authentication
• Lab: Enabling authentication and access control

Security

• Addressing web security challenges
• The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Certificates
• Lab: Installing Apache with SSL

Authentication

• HTTP authentication methods
• Apache authentication directives
• Authentication implementation using PHP
• Lab: Providing password-protected web page access to an order database

Virtual Hosting

• IP-based virtual hosting
• Name-based virtual hosting
• Port-based virtual hosting
• Bulk virtual hosting
• Virtual hosting with mod_rewrite
• Lab: Enabling virtual hosting

Additional Modules

• Guided tour of other Apache modules

Managing Web Content

• FTP access
• WebDAV
• Lab: Using WebDAV