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ITC333 Server Maintenance and Administration

   

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ITC333 Server Maintenance and Administration - Assessment 3[Name][Institution]

IntroductionThis learning diary presents procedures, screen shots, commands and configurations for settingup a web server on a Linux environment. The first task involves configuring a web serverwithout security implementations. The second task extends the first configuration to include SSLto allow the web server to communicate in a secure manner using HTTPS service. The third andfinal task involves capturing of network packets and analyzing the communication between aweb browser and the web server in both the secure HTTPS and HTTP connections. Kali Linux was used in setting up a nginx web server. Task 1: Configuring a web ServerStep 1: Install nginx web serverapt-get updateapt-get -y install nginx

After Installing Nginx, start the serversudo service nginx startsudo update-rc.d nginx defaultsCheck if nginx service is on my running the commandps waux | grep nginxTESTING USING WEB BROWSER [DEFAULT PAGE]Step 2: change ownership of root directory to allow custom content to be placed inside the default page; index.htmlchown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/html/index.htmlchmod 755 /var/www/html/index.htmlrm -f /var/www/html/index.htmlStep 3: Create a htm or html file and place in the folder; /var/www/html/

For this project, a html5 document with some basic explanations about installing nginx was created and placed in the folder /var/www/html/<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><title>ITC333 by Sarbjot Singh Toray</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"></head><body><nav><div class="width"><div style="float:left;margin-right: 20px;"><h2 style=" color: #fff; font-style:italic;">ITC333 by Sarbjot Singh Toray</h2></div></div></nav><section id="body" class="width clear"><aside id="sidebar" class="column-left"><ul><li class="bg"> <h4>Server Maintenance and Administration</h4><ul><li class="text"><h5> Assessment 3</h5><ul><li>I installed nginx server</li><li>On Kali Linux: sudo apt-get -y install nginx</li></ul><h5> Starting nginx</h5>

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