Help with RH web server

[R4CK3R]

Here at work my boss is wanting me to set up an Apache webserver and I've done it before as a lab in my curriculum but don't remember exactly what I did :D...

He wants it to where he can access the public_html directory from his Windows machine to upload the modified web files.

Security is one of the big things we want with this server so the only prot we really want running is the one for HTTP.

We need some type of anti-virus software for Linux running on the server as well.

That about covers it!
BTW it is Red Hat Linux 9.0

[kanezfan]

so the only prot we really want running

do you mean proc, as in process? You can do a minimal RH9 install as server, then install apache, it might even be installed by default. I don't think you can have httpd be the ONLY running process though. once it's installed, open up the httpd.conf file and give his user account permissions to use /public_html, it's really no that hard. If you read httpd.conf, it'll explain it all to you.

[R4CK3R]

oh sorry :D

what I really ment by "prot" was port!

This was just stated to iliminate the use of ftp for uploadin the web files.

I found my old notes and lab papers so that should be all I need to getting this server up and running.

If you have anything to add that you think will be of some help please do.

I'll get my hacker friend to try and deface it just to test it's securety!