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Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers

In this chapter, we will examine the following topics:

Installing and understanding a web server
Basic Apache configuration
Basic Nginx configuration
SSL, TLS, and LetsEncrypt
Basic MySQL or MariaDB installation
Basic PostgreSQL installation
Local MTA usage and configuration (Postfix)
Local MTA usage and configuration (Exim)
NoSQL documents (MongoDB example)
NoSQL KV (Redis example)
Messaging brokers and queues (RabbitMQ example)

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