UNIX/Linux - Apache WWW server administration

WWW service technology, HTTP protocol

• History of the WWW
• Main features and principles of WWW (URL, HTTP protocol, HTML language)
• Overview of the HTTP protocol series and their properties (HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2)
• Principle of virtual HTTP servers (based on IP addresses, based on domain names)

Apache server

• Basic information about the Apache server, literature, electronic sources of information
• Apache's modular concept (MPM, modules), description of core modules' functions
• Alternatives to Apache Lighthttpd, NGINX, etc.
• Installing Apache, inspecting the installed components
• Server control, basic tests

Apache server configuration

• Apache settings from the point of view of the process system in LINUX - automatic management of descendants, etc.
• Basic Apache server settings - WWW document tree, port configuration, etc.
• HTTP connection error handling
• Advanced server settings - automatic creation of directory contents, inserts inserted by the server, access authentication, restricting access to data provided by the server, language settings and MIME.
• Virtual servers
• Server logging and log processing

Systems for dynamic pages

• CGI scripts, FastCGI, WSGI, etc.
• principles of SSI
• PHP scripting language, deployment options in the Apache server
• PHP interpreter like Apache module, PHP FPM
• PHP configuration, PHP security

SSL/TLS

• Server-Side SSL Basics and Mechanisms
• The mod_ssl module and its configuration

Stress testing and performance tuning

• Stress tests using the ab tool, etc.
• Optimizing the server for performance

Security

• Basic information about Apache security
• Access rights, .htaccess files, etc.

Load balancing

• Load shedding options and technologies
• Built-in support in Apache
• Separate generation of static and dynamic content

Web cluster

• Shared storage
• Network infrastructure
• PHP sessions in the cluster