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Essential Computer Hardware
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Essential Computer Hardware

by Kevin Wilson
August 2024
Beginner
188 pages
4h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Web Servers and DNS

Web servers are computers usually running Windows Server or more commonly, some flavour of the Linux Operating System such as CentOS. Running on these machines is a piece of software called a web server. This is usually Apache, IIS or NGNIX (Engine X).

In the lab demonstration below, the server on the right is running CentOS Linux and has the Apache Web Server installed. The web server is pointing at our public_html directory stored on one of the server’s hard drives.

For simplicity’s sake, the Apache web server is bound to port 80, which is the default port for non-encrypted connections.

The IP address of the server is 192.168.0.100. ...

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