LFCE: Linux Service Management - Advanced HTTP Services
Looking to boost performance and add functionality to your production web site? In this course, you'll look at techniques such as proxying and caching using Squid Proxy Server and Apache Modules to help you reach those goals.
What you'll learn
More and more it is becoming essential to boost the performance and functionality of your production web site to meet the needs of clients. In this course, LFCE: Linux Service Management - Advanced HTTP Services you'll take your LINUX sysadmin skills to the next level and get started on your LFSA/RHCSA and LFCE/RHCE path. First, this course dives deep into HTTP services so you can provide high performance HTTP based services at scale. Next, you’ll start off on the client side and look at providing security and performance using Squid proxy server. Finally, you'll switch to the server side and look at httpd modules, configuring proxying, and caching for httpd services. By the end of this course, you will be prepared to boost the performance and functionality of your web site through important Linux skills.
Table of contents
- Introduction, Course, and Module Overview 1m
- Find the Bottleneck and Components of a Web Site 3m
- Client Side HTTP Proxy and Planning Web Server Hardware 4m
- Managing Web Server Resources and Tuning 3m
- Demo: Performance Tuning Basics - MPM and Modules 3m
- Accessing HTTP Resources and Content Caching 4m
- SSL Offloading, HTTP Compression, and System Monitoring 4m
- Demo: Enabling and Measuring the Impact of HTTP Compression 4m
- Bringing the Pieces Together, Module Summary, and What's Next! 2m
- Introduction, Course, and Module Overview 1m
- HTTP Proxy Concepts 2m
- Installing and Configuring Squid and Squid Log Files 3m
- Reading Log Records and Demo: Installing and Configuring Squid, Configuring a Proxy Client, and Reading access.log files 9m
- Access Controls and Restricting Access to Internet Resources 6m
- Demo: Reviewing squid.conf and Restricting Access to Internet Resources - Part 1 4m
- Demo: Reviewing squid.conf and Restricting Access to Internet Resources - Part 2 4m
- Demo: Reviewing squid.conf and Restricting Access to Internet Resources - Part 3 3m
- Adding a Disk Based Cache Directory 2m
- Demo: Adding a Cache Directory, Moving Your Cache to Another Directory 6m
- Transparent Proxy 2m
- Demo: Configuring a Transparent Proxy 6m
- Module Overview and What's Next! 1m
- Introduction, Course, and Module Overview 1m
- Introducing and Using Modules 4m
- Commonly Used Modules 4m
- Demo: Modules - Configuration Overview 4m
- Demo: Modules - Default Modules and Adding a New Module 5m
- Demo: Modules - Configuring a Module - mod_alias 7m
- CGI Applications 4m
- Demo: Configuring a CGI Application 5m
- Module Summary and What's Next! 1m
About the author
Anthony is a Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage as well as a Pluralsight Author, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Linux Expert, and Corporate Problem Solver. Anthony designs solutions, deploys the technology, and provides expertise on business system performance, architecture, and security. Anthony has a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science with research publications in high performance/low latency data access algorithms and spatial database systems.