Pam Authentication for Apache - KodeKloud

The document root /var/www/html of all web apps is on NFS share /data on storage server in Stratos Datacenter. We have a requirement where we want to password protect a directory in the Apache web server document root. We want to password protect http://:<apache_port>/protected URL as per the following requirements (you can use any website-url for it like local host since there are no specific requirements as of now):

a. We want to use basic authentication

b. We do not want to use htpasswd file base authentication. Instead, we want to use PAM authentication, i.e. Basic Auth + PAM so that we can authenticate with a Linux user.

c. We already have a user james with password GyQkFRVNr3 which you need to provide access to.

d. You can access the website on the LBR Link. To do so click on the + button on the top of your terminal, select Select port to view on Host 1, and after adding port 80 click on Display port.

Solution

Install and Configure DB Server - KodeKloud

We recently migrated one of our WordPress websites from an old server to a new infrastructure in Stratos Datacenter. We have already set up LAMP, except for the database. We have also restored website code; however, we need to restore the database to make it work on the new infra. Please perform the below given steps on DB host:

a. Install/Configure MariaDB server.

b. Create a database with name kodekloud_db3.

c. There is a DB dump on jump_host under location /home/thor/db.sql. Restore this database in newly created database.

d. Create a user kodekloud_aim and set any password you like.

e. Grant full permissions to user kodekloud_aim on database kodekloud_db3.

f. Update database-related details in /data/wp-config.php file on storage server, which is our NFS server having a share /data mounted on each app server on location /var/www/html. (for more details about how to update WordPress config file please visit https://wordpr