Apache
Apache HTTP Server is open-source web server software that handles HTTP requests and serves web content and applications.
Cyber Threat Hunting
Apache HTTP Server is an open-source web server that handles HTTP requests and serves web resources.
- How it is used
- Uses Apache access events to hunt for malicious uploads and suspicious web requests.
- How deep it goes
- Explains event fields and demonstrates searches and decoding, but stops short of server configuration or request-processing internals.
- Examples
- Uses WordPress upload paths, PHP filenames, encoded query parameters, and decoded shell commands as investigation artifacts.
- What you can do after
- Diagnose suspicious web activity by searching, parsing, decoding, and timeline-sorting Apache access events.
Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS
Apache is an open-source web server software project that serves web content and handles HTTP requests.
- How it is used
- Deploys Apache as the web-serving layer for a highly available WordPress infrastructure on AWS.
- How deep it goes
- Explains Apache’s deployment role and surrounding AWS architecture but stops short of installation commands or configuration details.
- Examples
- Uses two Apache web servers running WordPress behind an Application Load Balancer with shared EFS storage.
- What you can do after
- Operate Apache as a WordPress web server on EC2 and place it behind a health-checked load balancer.
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Related concepts
- NGINXalternative to · NGINX is open-source web-server and reverse-proxy software that serves HTTP content, forwards requests, and can load-balance network traffic.
- serverkind of · A server is a computer system or software process that receives requests from clients or other systems and provides resources, data, or services in response.
- container imagepart of · A container image is a packaged filesystem and configuration artifact from which a container can be created and run.
- web server access logproduces · A record of requests received and responses generated by a web server.
- port numberused by · A port number is a numeric transport-layer identifier that directs network traffic to a service or application endpoint on a host.
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