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>Securing and Optimizing Linux: RedHat Edition -A Hands on Guide</TH
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>Chapter 29. Software -Network Server, web/Apache</TD
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>29.8. Post install Configuration</A
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> Configuration files for different services are very specific depending on your needs, and your network architecture. Someone might install Apache Server for showing web pages only; another might install it with database connectivity
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and e-commerce with <SPAN
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> support, etc. In this book, we provide you with an <TT
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settings, to show you different possibilities.
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> We'll focus on optimization and security of these files, and leave all specific adjustments to your tastes. You will need to read the documentation that comes with these programs, and hopefully understand them.
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>All the configuration files required for each software described in this book has been provided by us as a gzipped file, <TT
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> for your convenience. This can be downloaded from this web address: <A
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You can unpack this to any location on your local machine, say for example <TT
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for respective software. For example <I
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> configuration file are organised like this:
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-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 2417 Jun 8 13:00 Compile-Apache
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-rw-r--r-- 1 harrypotter harrypotter 3426 Jun 8 13:00 httpd.conf
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drwxr-xr-x 3 harrypotter harrypotter 4096 Jun 8 13:00 init.d/
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drwxr-xr-x 3 harrypotter harrypotter 4096 Jun 8 13:00 logrotate.d/
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You can either cut and paste this directly if you are faithfully following our instructions from the begining or manually edit these to modify to your needs. This facility is there though as a convenience but please don't forget ultimately it will be your
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responsibility to check, verify, <SPAN
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> To run Apache server, the following files are required and must be created or copied to the appropriate directories on your server.
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> Copy the <TT
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> Copy the <TT
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> Copy the <TT
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> script file to the <TT
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You can obtain the configuration files listed in the following section on our <TT
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