[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic Linux Server Questions

[Chris Cox]

David Stanaway wrote:
> Dennis Myhand wrote:
>> I am putting together a web server for the students in my class.  I have 
>> installed Debian 3.1 Testing and Apache2.2.  Before I put this out for 
>> the world to see I want to make sure the server is as secure as I can 
>> make it.  The server is going to be on the school network, inside our 
>> firewall/router, but it is necessary for the web pages to be visible to 
>> the Internet as a whole.  I have a few questions if anyone on the list 
>> is willing to offer help.  How do I see which services are running? 
>> Which services are essential for a web server?  Do I set up ftp for my 
>> students to up load their pages or scp, or is there a default ftp upload 
>> capability?  Any help will be appreciated.
>>
> 
> 
> Install lsof, then you can:
> lsof -i | grep LISTEN

Perhaps this is easier/better to just see listening ports (??):

netstat -lp



> 
> You will see all the processes listening on network ports
> 
> For a web server, the only service you need is apache, but you will also
> need a way for people put their files up for publishing and possibly
> editing apache config etc.
> 
> Consider using ssh and have the students use sftp or psftp.exe or
> filezilla's SFTP2 mode to transfer files to the webserver.