Chapter 10. Managing Web Servers
This chapter contains the following recipes:
- Installing Apache HTTP Server and PHP
- Configuring name-based virtual hosting
- Configuring Apache to serve pages over HTTPS
- Enabling overrides and performing URL rewriting
- Installing NGINX as a load balancer
Introduction
This chapter contains recipes for working with the Apache HTTP Server to serve websites. You'll first learn how to install the server as well as PHP, a very common server-side scripting engine used to generate dynamic web content. Then you'll see how to serve multiple sites with the same server instance using name-based virtual hosting, encrypt the connection and serve content over HTTPS, and how to rewrite incoming URLs on the fly. We'll finish with looking ...
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