Apache Basic Server Hardening

Before hardening your Web Server you should make sure it works with it's intended integrated purpose in a test environment. Otherwise you may spend lots of wasted time trouble-shooting.

So, assuming that your Web Server passes testing of it's intended purpose, you may perform "Basic Hardening". Because this is "basic" I often perform these all at once and then test.

Here are some of the basic hardening steps I take today by default,