The Linux Juggernaut

Its a bit big and last Apache series post. In this we will see how to  secure a website with Active directory integration for user logins and a self signed certificate for encrypting login details, subsequent session.

To accomplish this we divide our task in to sub tasks.

Tasks :

Subtask1 : Creation of sub-domain on DNS server, website directory creation on our Apache server and index.html file.

Subtask2 : Creating ssl certificate… Continue Reading

How to secure a website with self signed certificate?

Step1 : Check if the Apache package is installed or not. If its not installed install it.

#rpm -qa | grep httpd
#yum install httpd
#yum install openssl

Note : openssl package is required to generate SSL certificates.

Step2 : Create DNS CNAME entry for this virtual host as ssl.linuxnix.com which should point to our server name server.linuxnix.com

Step3 : Create a home directory … Continue Reading

How to authenticate web access to perticular user?

Ans :

Step1 : Check if the apache package is installed or not.  If its not installed install it.

#rpm -qa | grep httpd

#yum install httpd

Step2 : Create DNS CNAME entry for this virtual host as auth.linuxnix.com which should point to our server name server.linuxnix.com

Step2a : Create a home direcotry for our virtual host and index.html file

#mkdir /websites/auth

#vi /websites/auth/index.html

Step3 : Create … Continue Reading

How to host multiple web sites on single server using Apache?

Ans : We can host multiple sites on single server. This can be done using multiple Virtual hosts with different host-names pointing to different directories in the server. In this post we taken two hosts to test this.

Step1 : check  the package is  installed or not

#rpm -qa | grep httpd

Step2 : Install the package

#yum install httpd

Step3 : For host … Continue Reading

Hey Buddies,

I am very happy to announce you guyz about my site new look and feel after some struggle for me and my team from past 2 to 3 weeks in coding and moving content from Blogger to WordPress for better blogging and make you guyz feel comfortable with browsing my blog. With the tremendous help from my friend  “Surya” we are able to make it by today, January 14(Which is an auspicious day … Continue Reading