W9 Web Servers

In this module we learned

1. Web servers basics.

2. Apache vs Nginx.

3. Virtual hosts.

4. Web server security.

5. SSL

6. Windows Web server.

7. IIS vs Apache.

Web servers

WWW is a common application for UNIX

Web Service Stack

A very common installation for web is the LAMP ” stack or LEMP ”/ LNMP ”/ stack

Linux operating system

Apache web server, N ginx, E ngine X

MySQL database server

PHP for applications and dynamic web pages

Virtual Hosts

A single web server responds to multiple URLs

• IP based

• Name

• based

Windows web server

Windows since Windows NT 3.5 have own web server: Internet Information Server ( IIS)