From the course: Ethical Hacking: Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications

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Introduction to web servers

Introduction to web servers

From the course: Ethical Hacking: Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications

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Introduction to web servers

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- [Instructor] A web application is run on a web server, which consists of a standard operating system platform and web server software. There are three common web servers we'll come across: the Internet Information Server, or IIS, which comes as an optional part of every Windows server, the Apache web server, which runs on Linux but can also be run on Windows, and the NGINX web server, which also runs on Linux and can be run on Windows. In addition to websites and applications, we'll also come across web-based endpoints called application program interfaces, or APIs. These are often used as online functions, which may take input and can return output, rather than full applications. Web servers provide a web root location and an initial startup webpage. In the case of IIS, the web root is in the folder c:\inetpub\wwwroot. For Apache and NGINX running on Linux, the standard location is /var/www/html. The standard…

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