Task: Apache2

Enter the labs/lab-07/tasks/apache2/support/ folder and go through the practice items below.

1. Use make run to start the container. Use strace inside the container to discover the server document root. The document root is the path in the filesystem from where httpd serves all the files requested by the clients.

First, you will have to stop the running container using make stop, then restart it with make run-privileged.

1. Use strace inside the container to attach to the worker processes (use the -p option for this). You will also have to use the -f flag with strace, so that it will follow all the threads inside the processes.

2. After you have attached successfully to all worker processes, use the curl command to send a request.

3. Then check the strace output to see what files were opened by the server.

Quiz

If you’re having difficulties solving this exercise, go through this reading material.