Managing Services and Security

Managing Services and Security
Name
Institution

Introduction
In this assignment, two virtual machine running Ubuntu and CentOS were installed and
configured on a VMware Workstation Player. The first machine was installed with a BIND,
to provide DNS & SSH services, while the second one was installed with a Web Server. The
name server on virtual machine 1 was configured to manage the domain saffioti.org.au. A
zone was also set up for the reverse zone and hardened by use of firewall rules, which
allowed access to the services. The virtual machine running Ubuntu OS was the web server,
where LAMP was installed. The Apache Web Server in the LAMP software was used to host
a website. Additionally, an FTP server was configured on the same virtual machine.
Part 1: Virtual Machine One – DNS & SSH Server
This virtual machine was installed with CentOs, and a BIND (DNS) installed and configured
on it. The name server was configured to manage the domain;
 saffioti.org.au
Step 1: Install Bind
sudo yum install bind bind-utils
Step 2: Configure DNS
The namde.conf file was edited as shown below.
nano -w /etc/named.conf

Step 3: Configure bind zone
nano -w /var/named/saffioti.org.au.zone
Restart the Service, then enable it to start automatically at boot time;
the following commands were used;
service named restart
chkconfig named on

Part 2: Virtual Machine Two: Server2
Ubuntu Operating system was installed on this virtual machine, and used as a web server. To
enable it server as a web server, LAMP was installed.
By definition LAMP is a stack of open source software tools, that are normally installed
together to facilitate hosting of dynamic websites and web applications. LAMP translates to
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The three software are installed on Linux along each other to
facilitate web hosting. In this exercise, the software were installed in a series of steps as
outlined below.
step 1: Install Apache
To install Apache, the following commands were used;
 sudo apt-get update : this command is used to update the list of packages and their
version. The command only gets and updates information about the packages but does
not install the updates.
 sudo apt-get install apache2: the command installs apache web server.
Figure 1.0 Updating the package information.
Figure 2.0 Installing Apache