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= OPS235 Assignment 2 Introduction and Purpose =

'''Weight:''' 515% of the overall grade

'''Due Date:''' Week 13 <br />Refer to your instructor for submission instructionsSee blackboard

{{Admon/important|It is YOUR responsibility to Backup your centos3 VM for this Assignment!|You are required to frequently backup your VM prior to exiting a work session during In this assignment. Your instructor , you will NOT accept demonstrate the fact that your hard disk crashed skills you have learned to this point by configuring two services: a '''database server''' and lost all of your worka '''web server'''. If you properly backed up your VM images You will install and xml configuration files to use a USBdatabase-backed web application, then you can purchase a new hard-disk or wipe and recreate '''Wordpress''', to show that these services have been installed properly. You will also configure your hard disk and restore '''firewall''' to further enhance the security of your VMscomputer system.}}<br>

In {{Admon/important|It is YOUR responsibility to backup your centos3 VM for this assignment!|You are required to frequently backup your VM prior to exiting a work session during this assignment, you . Your instructor will demonstrate NOT accept the skills fact that your hard disk crashed and lost all of your work. If you have learned properly backed up your VM images and xml configuration files to this point by configuring two services: a '''database server''' USB, then you can purchase a new hard-disk or wipe and a '''web server'''. You will install recreate your hard disk and use a database-backed web application, '''Wordpress''', to show that these services have been installed properly. You will also configure the '''SELinux''' security system as well as the '''iptables firewall''' to further enhance the security of restore your computer system. '''NOTE: Do this assignment inside the centos3 virtual machineVMs. '''}}

== Installing Packages==

== Configuring Apache ==

# Confirm that you can connect to your web server using a web browser -- both from centos3 (you can test using '''linkslynx''') as well as from the host. You should see the Apache Test Page.

== Configuring MySQL ==

# Set your MySQL root password to your learn ID Seneca e-mail username (without the ''@senecac.onmyseneca.ca '' part).

## Start by looking at httphttps://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPresssupport/article/creating-database-for-wordpress/#Using_the_MySQL_Client using-the-mysql-client where you will find instructions for the setup.

## Your wordpressusername is your learn IDSeneca username## The password should also be your learn IDSeneca username

== Installing and Configuring Wordpress ==

#* Change the DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD to the appropriate values.'''(Do not use the root account for your database connection! Marks will be deducted.)'''

== Write-up ==

Write a second post on your blog explainingincluding for example:

=Submitting Your Assignment = Configuring iptables ==Now that you've set up your blog, you must secure your firewall. The purpose of this section is to lock down your rules as much as possible.# You must be using iptables (firewalld should be uninstalled).# Your INPUT chain's default policy must be set to DROP.# Create INPUT chain exceptions (rules) to allow connections to your blog.# Other than the specific ports needed to access your blog, the only other allowed exception is for SSH.

=== Ready Open one or more terminals in c7host, SSH to centos3 from those terminals, and screenshot the following:* '''asg2-01-rpms.png''': List of additional RPMs installed for the assignment* '''asg2-02-apache.png''': Status of the ''httpd'' service* '''asg2-03-mysql1.png''': Status of the ''mysql'' service* '''asg2-04-mysql2.png''': MySQL output of the chained command: '''<code>show ===databases; use mysql; select User,Password from user; use myblog; show tables;</code>'''* '''asg2-05-wordpress.png''': Output of command: '''<code>ls -la /var/www/html/wordpress/</code>'''* '''asg2-06-wpconfig.png''': Output of command: '''<code>head -30 /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-config.php</code>'''* '''asg2-07-firefox.png''': Open a Firefox window to: '''http://centos3/wordpress/'''* '''asg2-08-iptables.png''': Output of command: '''<code>iptables -L -vn --line-numbers</code>'''* '''asg2-09-blogpost1.png''': Your first blog post in Firefox* '''asg2-10-blogpost2.png''': Your second blog post in Firefox

Open one or more terminals in c7host, SSH to centos3 from those terminals, and have the following ready:* The correct RPMs are installed* Status of the Create a tarball named '''mysqlasg2.tar.gz''' service* Status of containing all the '''httpd''' service* MySQL output of: '''show databases; use mysql; select User,Password from user; use myblog; show tables;'''* Output of: '''ls -la /var/www/html/wordpress/'''* Output of: '''head -30 /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-configimages above and submit it on Blackboard.php'''* Output of: '''iptables -L -vn --line-numbers'''* Open a Firefox window to: http://centos3/wordpress/

=== Rubric ===

| Everything ready to show First blog post || 2 1 ||

| First Second blog post || 3 1 ||

| Second blog post Submitted correctly || 3 4 ||

| '''Total''' || '''20 ''' ||