Chapter 5. Web Servers
In this chapter we will cover:
- Configuring Apache with TLS
- Improving scaling with the Worker MPM
- Setting up PHP using an Apache module
- Securing your web applications using mod_security
- Configuring NGINX with TLS
- Setting up PHP in NGINX with FastCGI
Introduction
One of the powerful things that Linux on servers allows you to do is to create scalable web applications with little to no software costs. We're going to discuss setting up web applications on Linux using Apache HTTPD and NGINX (pronounced Engine-X), securing those servers and look at some of the limitations for scaling.
Apache HTTPD, commonly referred to as just Apache, is the number one web server software in the world. As of November 2015, it is estimated to host roughly ...
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