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Linux Administration Cookbook

By : Adam K. Dean
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Linux Administration Cookbook

By: Adam K. Dean

Overview of this book

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators,and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform. The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly. This book will get you started with administering Linux, giving you the knowledge and tools you need to troubleshoot day-to-day problems, ranging from a Raspberry Pi to a server in Azure, while giving you a good understanding of the fundamentals of how GNU/Linux works. Through the course of the book, you’ll install and configure a system, while the author regales you with errors and anecdotes from his vast experience as a data center hardware engineer, systems administrator, and DevOps consultant. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical knowledge of Linux, which will serve as a bedrock for learning Linux administration and aid you in your Linux journey.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Basic Apache configuration

We've installed httpd on our CentOS machine, meaning that we've got a web server running on port 80 and we're able to hit it from our Firefox installation on our host machine.

In this section, we're going to take a look at how our server knows what to display and what we can do to set up a site of our own so that people aren't greeted by the default Apache page when they visit our IP.

Getting ready

For this section, we're going to use the Vagrantfile from the previous section. If you haven't already installed Apache on the CentOS VM, do so at this point.

Connect to your CentOS box:

$ vagrant ssh centos1 -- -L 127.0.0.1:8080:127.0.0.1:80
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