Hour 22. Configuring a Basic Web Server

FreeBSD makes an excellent Web server platform. In fact, this is one of its most popular uses. Many large Web sites, including Yahoo! and Sony Japan, rely on FreeBSD to serve up millions of pages a day. You might not have any ambitions of serving quite so many visitors, but this just shows what FreeBSD is capable of handling. And when that capability is available free, why not take advantage of it? In this hour, you will learn:

  • How to install Apache on your FreeBSD system

  • Basic configuration of Apache

  • Basic access control and security

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