Apache HTTP Server is an open-source web server platform leveraged by a number of applications within the bank. This article will outline the steps to install, configure and harden a zero-footprint instance of Apache 2.x.
Initial Installation
The first step is to retrieve the source files from Apache. Sine we are primarily using Unix-based systems, we will grab the bzip2 compressed file, but the steps would be similar on Linux using a gunzip archive.
Solaris (Unix)
wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.32.tar.bz2 [ -e use-proxy=yes -e http_proxy=server/IP:port
References
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/install.html - Official instructions.