Week 9 at a Glance

  1. Complete Chapter 9 - Linux Operations & Administration 1st  Edition Authors: Nadine Basta, Dustin Finamore, Alfred Basta, Serge Palladino - Publisher: Cengage Learning
  2. XKCD comic uses bash, scripting, and software install. You can see the explanation here: 1654: Universal Install Script

Discuss it if you want in the General Class discussion board

  1. Complete all of the Chapter 9 activities
  2. Take the Chapter 9 Reading Quiz - Assignment generated from the following publisher test pool. - Linux Operations & Administration 1st  Edition Authors: Nadine Basta, Dustin Finamore, Alfred Basta, Serge Palladino - Publisher: Cengage Learning
  3. Complete Chapter 10
  4. Read Chapter 10
  5. Read (or skim) an article on NGINX vs. Apache: NGINX vs. Apache: Our View of a Decade-Old Question
  6. Complete most of the Chapter 10 activities
  7. Complete activity 10-4
  8. Participate in the Chapter 10 discussions
  9. Take the Chapter 10 Reading Quiz - Assignment generated from the following publisher test pool. - Linux Operations & Administration 1st  Edition Authors: Nadine Basta, Dustin Finamore, Alfred Basta, Serge Palladino - Publisher: Cengage Learning

 

  1. Start studying for Exam 2

 

Intro:

Chapter 10 focuses on working with a web server.   Depending on who you believe Usage share of operating systems, the percentage of the web servers on the Internet that run Linux is between 36% and 96%.   The chapter also focuses on Apache.  Only a couple of years ago, this would have been the only real choice of web servers for Linux.   Now, there is a second web server that is gaining: nginx (pronounced like "Engine X".   While I have not spent a lot of time with it, I am told it is supposed to be faster (aka handles more connections at the same time with less resources).

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