lighttpd Training: Introduction to lighttpd Administration

Course Number: JAV-185
GSA/Previous Course Number: 255
Duration: 2 days
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lighttpd Training Overview

Accelebrate's lighttpd training teaches attendees how to install, configure, performance tune, and administer the popular lighttpd web server.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/.

lighttpd Training Prerequisites

No prior experience with lighttpd is presumed.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This lighttpd training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

lighttpd Training Materials

All lighttpd training students receive a copy of Packt Publishing's Lighttpd and related course materials

Software Needed on Each Student PC

This course is taught using lighttpd in a Linux or Solaris virtual machine and can be tailored to any version of lighttpd 1.4 or later. We would provide you with the virtual machine in advance for installation. Classroom PCs should have:

At least 1GB RAM and 10GB hard drive space
The latest version of VMware Player (http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html) if you're running this class on Linux; for Solaris, we use Sun's free VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/)
An unzipped copy of the image we send you on DVD

lighttpd Training Objectives

Build, configure, and tune lighttpd
Deploy Web sites and server-side applications to lighttpd
Set up lighttpd with your choice of srever-side CGI / scripting environments (PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
Facilitate downloads and streaming of large files
Configure SSL
Set up authentication and authorization
Take other steps to secure lighttpd
Migratefrom Apache httpd (if applicable to your circumstance)
Use Lua with lighttpd

lighttpd Training Outline

Introduction

Building lighttpd

Installing lighttpd
Different approaches for building lighttpd

Configuring and running lighttpd

Starting lighttpd by hand
Other core options
MIME types
Selectors

Will include regular expression tutorial if needed

Rewriting and redirecting requests
Including variables, files, and shell code

More virtual hosting and CGI

Extended virtual hosting
MySQL-based virtual hosting
Going dynamic
CGI with mod_cgi
FastCGI and or SCGI (as desired)
mod_proxy_core and backends

Downloads and streams

Core settings
Traffic shaping
Securing downloads
Streaming content

Access logging and user tracking

Access logging
Tracking users

SSL

Fundamentals of SSL
Self-signed certificates (for test) versus "real" certificates from a CA
Configuring lighttpd to use SSL
Configuring lighttpd to require SSL for access to a given resource

Securing lighttpd

Barriers to entry
Evading denial of service attacks
RRDtool
Grepping the logs for signs of attack

Containing lighttpd

Giving up privileges
Changing root

Optimizing lighttpd

Installing http_load
Caching with mod_magnet (your preferred OS must support the Lua language)
Measuring system load
Profiling with gprof

Migration from Apache

Adding lighttpd to the mix
mod_proxy
Reducing Apache load
mod_perl, mod_php, and mod_python
.htaccess
Rewriting rules

CGI revisited (we typically cover just selected sections of this)

Integration with Ruby on Rails
Installing apps of your choice (WordPress, phpMyAdmin, MediaWiki, etc.)

Using Lua with lighttpd (if desired)

Lua primer
Useful Lua libraries
Lua with FastCGI
Running mod_magnet
Case study

Conclusion

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lighttpd Training: Introduction to lighttpd Administration

lighttpd Training Overview

lighttpd Training Prerequisites

lighttpd Training Materials

lighttpd Training Objectives

lighttpd Training Outline

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