Apache http for sys and web admins **FREE**

Explore Apache http configuration by comparing httpd and apache2 files across CentOS and Ubuntu, locate main config files, verify version, and identify access and error logs.

Configure Apache http using the httpd.conf directory directive, adjust require all denied/granted for /var/www, customize 404 messages with ErrorDocument, and verify with curl before restarting httpd.

Explore using Apache alias, redirect, and rewrite to map user-friendly urls to actual files, test with permanent redirects, and verify routing with curl and browser.

explore apache httpd log files, configure error and access logs, adjust log level and log formats such as combined, and interpret host, time, request, status, size, referrer, and user agent.

Set up Apache to serve static files from the designated folder and map it to /docs. Ensure requests to /docs or /docs/index.html resolve to the corresponding files.

Expose a folder outside patches by creating opt at docs and an index.html in app dev docs, set directory and alias with require all granted, restart httpd, and access.

Contrast forward and reverse proxies and explore how a reverse proxy routes external requests to internal servers. Learn to configure Apache to forward requests to Tomcat.

Install OpenJDK, download and install Apache Tomcat, start the server, and verify access on port 8080 with a sample app for testing.

Configure Apache httpd as a reverse proxy by adding proxy_pass and proxy_pass_reverse entries, then restart httpd and verify the proxied Tomcat app in a browser.

Configure Apache for SSL by generating a private key and CSR, creating a self-signed certificate, and installing mod_ssl, then enable SSL in httpd and restart the server.