Course Details

By attending this course students will:

• Learn what exactly a virtual private server (VPS) is, how one can benefit you, and how to provision one
• Learn how to SSH into your new machine and navigate around using the command line
• Learn how to use command line based text editors to edit configuration files
• Learn what a package manager is and how they can help you set up a system
• Learn how to set up a LAMP hosting environment
• Learn how to use Git to populate /var/www/ with your projects
• Learn how to connect projects to local MySQL databases
• Learn how to point domain names to your sites and set up Apache virtual hosts
• Learn to lock down your system by closing common web server attack vectors
• Learn how to troubleshoot your server by reading your log files