Showing posts with label Web Server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Server. Show all posts

Friday 14 October 2011

Authentication / Password Protection in Apache

There are many ways you can password protect directories under Apache web server. This is important to keep your file privates from both unauthorized users and search engines (when you do not want to get your data indexed). Here you will see the basics of password protecting a directory on your server. You can use any one of the following method:

Securing Apache Web Server with Encryption

In this blog we are going to discuss about encrypting communications to web server  using TLS/SSL.

Step 1:  Install mod_ssl and httpd

# yum -y install mod_ssl httpd


Thursday 13 October 2011

Basic web server configuration in RHEL / CENTOS


Packages required – httpd
                               httpd-devel
                               httpd-manual
Daemon - /usr/sbin/httpd
Script -     /etc/init.d/httpd
Ports -       80/tcp (http) , 443/tcp (https)
Configuration - /etc/httpd/*
                          /var/www/*

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