Apache Tutorials

This is a collection of instructions for using Apache, going from how to compile it in several tutorials to a complete Apache configuration with an emphasis on security.

Requirements

For these tutorials you’ll need a Linux installation (preferably from the Debian family, e.g. Ubuntu) and minimal knowledge of the Linux shell.

Cloning the tutorials

git clone https://github.com/Apache-Labor/labor.git
cd labor

##Content

• tutorial-00 Compiling an Apache web server
• tutorial-01 Configuring a minimal Apache server
• tutorial-02 Setting up an Apache/PHP application server
• tutorial-03 Configuring an SSL server
• tutorial-04 Extending and analyzing the access log
• tutorial-05 Embedding ModSecurity
• tutorial-06 Embedding OWASP ModSecurity core rules
• tutorial-07 Tuning OWASP ModSecurity core rules
• tutorial-08 Configuring a reverse proxy
• tutorial-09 Efficiently configuring and debugging Apache
• tutorial-10 Visualizing log files

##Contributions

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the tutorials. We welcome any comments, corrections or suggestions. Preferably as a pull request, but e-mails are welcome, too.

Contact: christian . folini at netnea.com.

##Alternative location

The majority of these tutorials were written by netnea and have therefore also been published at http://www.netnea.com. The master copy however is available at https://github.com/Apache-Labor/labor.

License / Copying / Further use

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.