While running a HTTP server such as Apache, there is a few step an administrator have to take in order not to get easily hacked. The very basic one is to hide from the outside which software version and operating system version are running.

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2. Adding modules:

Now, taking into account the strucutre of apache, it is pretty easy to add modules to be loaded by apache. Let’s assume that you want to add mime_magic module. To do so, you can either:
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Apache is usually suitable out of the box for most common used. The apache structure under debian based systems is actually really well made as it is really easy to activate or deactivate module.

This how-to will show how to activate or deactivate available modules under a debian system running apache2.

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Subversion is an application used for version control, it is meant to become a replacement of CVS Concurrent Versions System. Subversion is also known as svn.

This how-to will show how to setup svn repositories accessible throught http by using apache2 and the DAV module.

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Awstats is a great web log analyser. It gives really usefull statistics about traffic on your web sites.

Installing awstats in debian/ubuntu still needs so tweaking to produce neat statistics.

In this articles, I’m going to show you what needs to be done.

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3. Configuring Awstats:

Awstats configuration file are located in /etc/awstats. By default, when calling the URL http://www.mysite.org/awstats/awstats.pl, awstats is looking for the configuration file name after your domain name, namely here /etc/awstats/awstats.www.mysite.org.conf. You can override this by giving awstats an argument named config. For instance http://www.mysite.org/awstats/awstats.pl?config=foobar will indicate awstats to fetch the configuration from /etc/awstats/awstats.foobar.conf.

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Virtual Hosting allow web servers to host more than one website on a sing machine. This is how sharing hosting works. I become pretty handy as well while develloping different web project on the same machine and allows you to access to your local repository using addresses such as http://dev.mysite.com instead of http://localhost/~myuser/myproject/ .
This tutorial is based on a machine runnning ubuntu/linux but should be the same on any debian based distribution and almost the same on other distributions.

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