Linux: Managing Web Services (LPIC-2)

Course Overview
Hello everyone and welcome. My name is Andrew Mallett, otherwise known as the urban penguin. And if you're listening to this then you are just minutes away from learning web services in detail for both real life and the LPIC-2 202 exam. You probably already know that I worked in the UK and I have my own Linux training and consultancy organization. Web services are today as popular as they have ever been with the focus more and more on security. You want to make sure that you stop by the TLS SSL module where we do look at covering HTTPS in detail. Now in this course we're going to work with Arch Linux, Apache, NGINX, and Squid. Arch is a pure Linux distribution with simplicity at its heart. In this way nothing is hidden or managed for you in your Apache configuration so you can be sure that you're learning everything. During this course we're going to show you, among other topics, configuring Apache virtual hosts, configuring PHP and Perl on Apache, and configuring HTTPS enabled and protected sites. By the end of this course you're going to realize that you've probably just attended the best web services course that you've going to find and you're going to be competent in deploying Apache, NGINX, and Squid services. Now of course you're going to need some basic knowledge of Linux and be competent at working at the Linux command line.

Using NGINX as a Web Server
Hello and welcome to this Pluralsight presentation. My name is Andrew Mallett and I'm here as your instructor to help guide you through the module where we take a look at using NGINX as a web server. Now as we run through the objectives, of course we're going to be looking at installing NGINX. NGINX is another open source web server that's available on the Linux platform and although not as popular as the Apache Web Server is fast coming along as being a very popular alternative. We'll of course be looking at the web server configuration, so configuring a basic web server, as well as configuring NGINX as a reverse proxy server. Now when we're looking at installing NGINX, we're not going to have any problems on Arch as it makes up part of our core repositories. Similarly if we're using Ubuntu we're going to find it's there as standard in the core repositories, but on CentOS we're going to have to add in the EPEL repository. When we're installing it on Arch it's going to be a matter of then pacman -S and then nginx. The configuration file for NGINX is the nginx. conf and we're going to find that in the etc/nginx directory. Now before we get too much into the configuration, let's take a look at installing NGINX and getting the basic web server up and running.