ngix/nfw(week 11)

Question 1

What is a web server?

Answer 1

Software that is run on a hardware server that serves up documents over the internet (generally using HTTP)

Question 2

Where is the nginx configuration file?

Answer 2

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Question 3

What is a server block?

Answer 3

It allows you to setup multiple webservers in a single server

Question 4

What are the components of a serverblock?

Answer 4

listen = which ports to listen on
server_name = domain name or ip address of incoming traffic
root: dir contains content that you want to server
index: specifies name of index or root document
location: specified what should happen when user navigates to that part

Question 5

how do you test whether nginx works?

Answer 5

sudo nginx -t

Question 6

how do you check the status of ufw?

Answer 6

sudo ufw status verbose

Question 7

What are the commands for configuring ufw?

Answer 7

sudo ufw allow
sudo ufw deny
sudo ufw limit

Question 8

How do you enable ufw?

Answer 8

sudo ufw enable

Question 9

How do you setup a directory index with nginx?

Answer 9

“autoindex on;” as a directive under /files location

Question 10

Where is useradd located?

Answer 10

/etc/default/useradd