1. Web Server Setup
WEB SERVER SETUP

2. Web Server Web Server Setup Apache Web Server is used
Daemon is httpd (service httpd start/stop/restart)

3. Files used by Apache Web Server Setup
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

4. Apache Configuration Directives
Web Server Setup
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

5. Basic Settings Web Server Setup
Change the default value for ServerName 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)

6. Virtual Hosting Web Server Setup
NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName server-name DocumentRoot path-to-virtual-document-root </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80>

7. Squid Setup
SQUID SETUP

8. 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

9. Obtaining Squid Source code (in C) from www.squid-cache.org
Squid Setup
Obtaining Squid
Source code (in C) from
Binary executables
Linux (comes with RedHat and others)
FreeBSD
Windows
Pre-installed in Fedora/Enterprise Linux

10. Basic Settings Edit the /etc/squid/squid.conf file to configure squid
Squid Setup
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

11. Squid.conf Configuration
Squid Setup
Squid.conf Configuration
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid/cache
auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/shadow
acl sidbiusers proxy_auth required
http_access allow sidbiusers
acl our_network src /24
http_access allow our_network
(Note: use squid –z for the first time to create the cache directory and its subdirectories)