Q1: – Command to restart/start Apache web server ?
Ans:- service httpd restart/start
Q2: – Command to check the version of Apache server ?
Ans:- rpm -qa |grep httpd
Q3: – What is meaning of “Listen” in httpd.conf file ?
Ans:- Port number on which to listen for nonsecure (http) transfers.
Q4: – What is location of log files for Apache server ?
Ans:- cd /var/log/httpd
Q5: – Apache server works on which ports ?
Ans:- http – port 80
https – port 443
Q6: – Tell me name of main configuration file of Apache server ?
Ans:- httpd.conf
Q7: – On which version of apache you have worked ?
Ans:-httpd-2.2.3
Q8: – What is the main difference between and sections?
Ans:- Directory sections refer to file system objects; Location sections refer to elements in the address bar of the Web Page.
Q9: – What is the use of mod_perl module ?
Ans:- mod_perl scripting module to allow better Perl script performance and easy integration with the web server.
Q10: – If you have added “loglevel Debug” in httpd.conf file, than what will happen ?
Ans:- It will give you more information in the error log in order to debug a problem.
Q11: – Is it possible to record the MAC (hardware) address of clients that access your server ?
Ans:- No
Q12: – Can I serve content out of a directory other than the DocumentRoot directory?
Ans:- Yes. We can do it by using “Alias” command.
Q13: – What we should do to find out how people are reaching your site
Ans:- Add the following effect or to your activity log format. %{Referer}
Q14: – How t to enable PHP scripts on your server?
Ans:- If you have mod_php installed, use AddHandler to map .php and .phtml files to the PHP handler. AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .phtml .php
Q15: – Which tool you have used for Apache benchmarking?
Ans:- ab (Apache bench)
ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://www.test.com/test.html
Q16: – Can we cache files which are viewed frequently?
Ans:- Yes we can do it by using mod_file_cache module.
CacheFile /www/htdocs/index.html
Q17: – What is Document Root ?
Ans:- It is a location of files which are accessible by clients. By default, the Apache HTTP server in RedHat Enterprise Linux is configured to serve files from the /var/www/html/ directory.
Q20: – Can we do automatically roll over the Apache logs at specific times without having to shutdown and restart the server?
Ans:- Yes
Use CustomLog and the rotatelogs programs
Add following line in httpd.conf file. CustomLog “| /path/to/rotatelogs /path/to/logs/access_log.%Y-%m-%d 86400″ combined
Q21: – How you will put a limit on uploads on your web server ?
Ans:- This can be achieved by LimitRequestBody directive.
LimitRequestBody 100000
Here I have put limit of 100000 Bytes
Q22: – I want to stop people using my site by Proxy server. Is it possible?
Ans:- Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
Q23: – What is mod_evasive module?
Ans:- mod_evasive is a third-party module that performs one simple task and performs it very well. It detects when your site is receiving a Denial of Service (DoS) attack and it prevents that attack from doing as much damage. mod_evasive detects when a single client is making multiple requests in a short period of time and denies further requests from that client. The period for which the ban is in place can be very short, because it just gets renewed the next time a request is detected from that same host.
Q24: – What are the types of virtual hosts ?
Ans:-
a. name-based
b. IP-based.
Name-based virtual host means that multiple names are running on each IP address.
IP-based virtual host means that a different IP address exists for each website served. Most configurations are named-based because it only requires one IP address.
Q25: – You are asked to stop Apache Service through its control Script. What will you do?
Ans:- The Apache service is controlled using a script called apachectl. In order to stop apache using its control script we need to run.
# apachectl stop [On Ubuntu based Systems]
# /etc/inid.t/httpd stop [On Red Hat based Systems]
Q26: – How is ‘apachectl restart’ different from ‘apachect1 graceful’
Ans:- The ‘apachect1 restart’ when executed will force Apache to restart immediately, before the task complete whereas ‘apachectl graceful’ will wait for the current task to be finished before restarting the service. Not to mention ‘apachectl graceful’ is more safe to execute but the execution time for ‘apachect1 restart’ is less as compared to ‘apachectl graceful’.
Q27: – You are supposed to create a new Apache VirtualHost configuration for the host www.CloudNetwork.in that is available at /home/cloudnetwork/public_html/ and maintains log at /var/log/httpd/ by default.
Ans:- You need to create a Apache virtual host container in main apache configuration file located at ‘/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf’. The following is the virtual container for host www.cloudnetwork.in.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/cloudnetwork/public_html
ServerName www.cloudnetwork.in
Server Alias cloudnetwork.in
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/cloudnetwork.in.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/cloudnetwork.in.error.log
</VirtualHost>
Q28: – I know ssh, telnet, dns,apache all are worked on TCP/UDP but i want to know any one service which are working on UDP only?
Ans:- snmptrap 162/udp
snmptrap – simple network management protocol trap
snmptrapd is an SNMP application that receives and logs
Q29: – What is the status code 403,404 represented in apache server?
Ans:- 403 represent forbidden error, means if a file misses some selinux security context.
404 represent that there is a cgi script missing or web pages missing.
Q30: – My clients are getting services from servers but how to know which client is using which service. is there any files to keep information about these? Clients used ftp, nis, samba, apache, squid, nfs and mail services how to know how many users got service from server side with date, time and client system ip?
Ans:- Mail server – /var/log/mail/maillog [RedHat,centos]
ssh – /var/log/secure
Apache – /var/log/http/access.log
nfs – /var/lib/nfs/rmtab
Q31: – Apache runs as which user? and location of main config file?.
Ans:- Apache runs with the user “nobody” and httpd daemon. Apache main configuration file:
# /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (CentOS/RHEL/Fedora) and
# /etc/apache2.conf (Ubuntu/Debian).
