Learn Apache web server administration from the basic web server concept to the advanced topics, such as best practices, security, logging, integration, and other guides.
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Let’s look into getting a FREE SSL/TLS certificate from ZeroSSL and implement it in Apache and Nginx web servers. Introduction You might have heard a lot about the term like HTTP and HTTPS. In the early days, a protocol was defined, which was named as HyperText Transfer Protocol(HTTP). It is a way to communicate from…
Restrict or allow resource sharing between sites using CORS header. CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) header is supported on all modern browsers. Can I Use cors? Data on support for the cors feature across the major browsers from caniuse.com. By default, the browser restricts cross-origin HTTP requests through scripts. And, CORS can be handy to reuse…
Protect your website from click-jacking attack by implementing CSP (Content Security Policy) header CSP is one of the OWASP top 10 secure headers and often recommended by security experts or tools to implement it. There are many options to build the policy to enforce how you want to expose your web resources. One of the…
Block all those unnecessary requests you see in the logs I assume you have looked into your website visitor logs and fed up with those unwanted requests. They may not be necessarily bad or spam, but it is they may not add value to the business. Imagine if the majority of the hits are coming…
A step-by-step guide to enable the latest and test TLS version protocol 1.3 Before implementation procedure, let’s take a look at what is TLS 1.3, how it differs from 1.2, history, and compatibility. What is TLS 1.3? TLS (transport layer security) 1.3 is based on existing 1.2 specifications. It’s the latest TLS version protocol and aims…
Let’s secure Apache with SSL/TLS certificate. Once the certificate is implemented, the configured domain/IP will be accessible over HTTPS. Let’s get it started. On a high-level, we will do the following. Compile Apache HTTP 2.4.5 with SSL module Get SSL Certificate Configure Apache to support SSL Install Apache with SSL from Source To configure SSL,…
Installing Apache HTTP is always fun. A few days back, I was installing Apache 2.4 on CentOS VM and encountered multiple errors. I thought it would be helpful to put together for a reference. APR not found [[email protected] httpd-2.4.25]# ./configure –enable-ssl checking for chosen layout… Apache checking for working mkdir -p… yes checking for grep…
HTTP/2 is the second major version HTTP protocol released in 2015. Since launch, around 11% of website support HTTP/2. It got many features like: HTTP Header Compression Push technologies Load page elements in parallel over a single TCP connection Binary protocol Reduce latency Demo by AKAMAI shows HTTP/2 is approximately two times faster than HTTP/1.1 Did…
Most of the CDN like Cloudflare, SUCURI, AKAMAI let you enable IPv6 from their edge network. However, if you are not using CDN that provides IPv6 and needs to enable your website, then here is how you can do it. IPv6 has a performance advantage over IPv4. It can help to decrease the page load…
Apache is the most popular Web Server, and if you intend to work as a Middleware/System/Web administrator, then you must be familiar with it. Apache HTTP is an open-source Web Server for Windows & UNIX. A few days back, I wrote about WebSphere Interview Questions, and many of you requested to write about Apache Web…
