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Learning RHEL Networking

You're reading from   Learning RHEL Networking Gain Linux administration skills by learning new networking concepts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287831
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Enterprise Linux 7 FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Network Settings 3. Configuring Key Network Services 4. Implementing iSCSI SANs 5. Implementing btrfs 6. File Sharing with NFS 7. Implementing Windows Shares with Samba 4 8. Integrating RHEL 7 into Microsoft Active Directory Domains 9. Deploying the Apache HTTPD Server 10. Securing the System with SELinux 11. Network Security with firewalld Index

Loading modules


Red Hat has moved away from loading modules in the standard httpd.conf file. In the previous release of Red Hat (version 6), the configuration file would have been littered with many LoadModule directives.

These modules are now loaded via the configuration files in /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/. In this way, the main configuration file is less cluttered and it's easier to drop additional configuration files as and when required.

To view the currently loaded modules from Command Prompt, use the following command:

$ sudo httpd -M

We can see that we have many modules loaded. We can pipe the output to the wc command to count the lines. Using the RHEL 7.1 demonstration system, the output is 82:

$ sudo httpd -M | wc -l

With the original output, we should be able to see that the userdir_module is loaded. If we do not need to support user home directories on the web server, we do not need this module. To load this module, the LoadModule directive referencing this Apache module is set...

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