Applicable Job Roles: web server administrator, web programmers, and web application developers.

• About Apache
• Starting and Stoping Apache
• Reviewing Running Configurations
• The Configuraiton Files
• Configuration File Architecture - Ubuntu and FreeBSD
• The Directory Container
• Directory Listings
• Customizing Directory Listings
• Logs and Their Use
• Using Server Status and Server Info

• Modules, Directives, and Containers
• Using the alias Commands
• Enabling and Disabling Features using the Options Directive
• Overrides: Order of Presidence and Disabling
• Access Control with Allow and Deny
• Types of Authentication
• Implementing Basic Authentication

• Name- and IP-Based Virtual Hosts
• Implement Simple Name-based Virtual Host
• Implement a Simple IP-based Virtual Host
• Mixing Name- and IP-based Virtual Hosts
• SSL Introduction
• Serving Multiple SSL Domains using One Physical Server
• Dynamic Mass Virtual Hosting

• Use and Misuse of mod_rewrite
• Third-Pary Modules - mod_cband
• Third-Pary Modules - mod_security
• Content Negotiation
• Proxies
• Load Balancing

• Using Includes to Optimize Disk Usage and Reduce Work
• Serving Compressed Content
• Content Caching
• Hardware and Operating System Matters
• Performance and Configuration
• Goodbye Mods

• Server Side Includes
• Scripts - Perl and PHP
• Perl and the Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• ScriptAlias, mod_perl, mod_fastcgi
• Preventing Buffer Overflows
• Preventing Cross-site Scripting
• suEXEC
• Review and Awareness

• General knowledge of networking concepts.
• Basic knowledge of Unix commands and the use of a text editor such as vi.
• Students should verify that they can modify the main configuration file: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf in Ubuntu, or /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf in FreeBSD.
• Students should verify that they view the content served by their web server in a browser. If your web server is on the same device as your browser, generally you can see the content by entering 'http://localhost' in the address bar of your browser.

• Students will require access to a computer running a UNIX operating system and Apache 2.2.x.
• Students are encouraged to use the most recent version of Firefox and to install the Firebug, Page Speed, and YSlow add-ons.
• Students will need to install Ubuntu desktop in order to use the Apache web server.
• An alternative desktop implementation for FreeBSD users is available from PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/169/11/).
• Students may want to become familiar with the online Apache documentation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/) before class begins. We will refer to this resources throughout the class.