Cesar Chew at 17:47, 24 November 2014

2014-11-24T17:47:36Z

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{{Cat|Apache|04}}

<slideshow style="nobleprog" headingmark="⌘" incmark="…" scaled="true" font="Trebuchet MS" >
;title: Apache Modules
;author: Sam Bashton (NobleProg Ltd)

</slideshow>
=== Apache modules ⌘===
* RHEL ships with many Apache modules included
* Almost all are enabled by default
* This increases memory consumption of each and every Apache process
=== mod_dav ⌘===
* WebDav - extension for HTTP that allows users to edit and manage files on remote servers
=== Configuring webdav ⌘===
```
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
LimitXMLRequestBody 131072
Alias /webdav "/home/httpd/webdav"
<Directory /var/www/dav>
Dav On
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
</Directory>
</IfModule>
```
=== mod_php ⌘===
* The main reason to run Apache
* `yum install php`
=== PHP Options ⌘===
* Configured via `/etc/php.ini`
:* `post_max_size` - maximum data size accepted by POST, 8MB by default
:* `upload_max_filesize` - maximum file size that can be uploaded, 2MB by default
:* `max_execution_time` - maximum time a PHP script can run
:* memory_limit - maximum amount of memory a single PHP process can use
=== mod_security ⌘===
* Tries to add extra security by blocking requests that look like attacks
* Questionable how successful it is
* Can break some applications
=== EPEL ⌘===
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
* EPEL - Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
* Community maintained package repo for RHEL
* Includes mod_security
=== Installing mod_security ⌘===
* Once EPEL has been enabled - `yum install mod_security`
=== Exercise ⌘===
:* Enable mod_php
:* Enable mod_security

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Cesar Chew at 17:47, 24 November 2014