Web Server Setup

WEB SERVER SETUP

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Web Server

Apache Web Server is used

Daemon is httpd (service httpd start/stop/restart)
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Files used by Apache

Configuration file: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Log files: /var/log/httpd/access_log and
/var/log/httpd/error_log
Modules /etc/httpd/modules
Default Document Root /var/www/html
Default CGI Root /var/www/cgi-bin
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Apache Configuration Directives

Server Name
Min and Max Servers
Document Root
CGI Enable/Disable
User Directory
Directory Index
Mime Types
Modules
Access Restrictions
Secure Server
Virtual Hosting
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Basic Settings

Change the default value for ServerName

www.<your-domain.com> in httpd.conf and put the
website content in /var/www/html
Additionally you can configure Name based Virtual
Hosting (allow more than one websites to run on
the same server)
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Virtual Hosting

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName server-name
DocumentRoot path-to-virtual-document-root
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName server-name
DocumentRoot path-to-virtual-document-root
</VirtualHost>
Squid Setup

SQUID SETUP
Squid Setup

What is a Web Proxy?

A proxy is a host which relays web access requests
from clients
used when clients do not access the web directly
used for security, logging, accounting and
performance

browser proxy web

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Obtaining Squid
Source code (in C) from www.squid-cache.org
Binary executables
Linux (comes with RedHat and others)
FreeBSD
Windows
Pre-installed in Fedora/Enterprise Linux
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Basic Settings
Edit the /etc/squid/squid.conf file to configure squid
Configuration options:
Disk Cache size and location
Authentication
Allowed Hosts
Any other access restrictions (sites, content, size,
time of access etc.) using ACL
service squid start/stop/restart
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Squid.conf Configuration
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid/cache 100 16 256
auth_param basic program
/usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/shadow
acl sidbiusers proxy_auth required
http_access allow sidbiusers
acl our_network src 172.28.250.0/24
http_access allow our_network
(Note: use squid –z for the first time to create the
cache directory and its subdirectories)