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Mastering Ubuntu Server

By : Jay LaCroix
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Mastering Ubuntu Server

By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system, and has various versions targeted at servers, desktops, phones, tablets and televisions. The Ubuntu Server Edition, also called Ubuntu Server, offers support for several common configurations, and also simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. With this book as their guide, readers will be able to configure and deploy Ubuntu Servers using Ubuntu Server 16.04, with all the skills necessary to manage real servers. The book begins with the concept of user management, group management, as well as file-system permissions. To manage your storage on Ubuntu Server systems, you will learn how to add and format storage and view disk usage. Later, you will also learn how to configure network interfaces, manage IP addresses, deploy Network Manager in order to connect to networks, and manage network interfaces. Furthermore, you will understand how to start and stop services so that you can manage running processes on Linux servers. The book will then demonstrate how to access and share files to or from Ubuntu Servers. You will learn how to create and manage databases using MariaDB and share web content with Apache. To virtualize hosts and applications, you will be shown how to set up KVM/Qemu and Docker and manage virtual machines with virt-manager. Lastly, you will explore best practices and troubleshooting techniques when working with Ubuntu Servers. By the end of the book, you will be an expert Ubuntu Server user well-versed in its advanced concepts.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Ubuntu Server
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing and configuring Apache


The best way to become familiar with any technology is to dive right in. We'll begin this chapter by installing Apache, which is simply a matter of installing the apache2 package:

# apt-get install apache2

By default, Ubuntu will immediately start and enable the apache2 daemon as soon as its package is installed. You can confirm this yourself with either of the two following commands, the latter of which you would use on older Ubuntu server installations:

# systemctl status apache2
# /etc/init.d/apache2 status

In fact, at this point, you already have (for all intents and purposes) a fully functional web server. If you were to open a web browser and enter the IP address of the server you just installed Apache on, you should see Apache's sample web page:

Apache's default web page in Ubuntu Server

Of course, there's more to Apache than simply installing it. There are several configuration files in the /etc/apache2 directory that govern how sites are hosted, as...