Server Administration III: Web

Information technology professionals require good web server administration skills. Whether it is spinning up a simple in-house web server for the company, or designing and maintaining a production load balancer for the enterprise, this book covers several facets of leveraging web services in a corporate environment. From Apache to Nginx to Tomcat, this book is designed both as a manual for the burgeoning IS student and as a reference guide for IT professionals. Beginning with a quick review of three different Linux platforms commonly used for production web services, to verifying security of web pages, to even hosting web servers on Raspberry Pi’s, this manual then explores the most commonly used Linux-based web servers available. It looks in depth at the steps needed to create a functioning LAMP server as well as using Apache to load balance web content over several servers. It even provides many hands-on activities to assist students in installing, configuring, and using web servers in true-to-life circumstances. Web servers also require various other toolsets to properly function; which is why this book explores web proxies, email and file servers, and DNS services. For those eager to learn more and go beyond the confines of the printed word, this book provides online references along with practice exercises at the end of each chapter.