A working WWW server for CCIE Security

I have been playing around with this for quite some time now, and finally got it working.

It’s hardly a complicated requirement, just need a server to host two websites (www.good.com, and www.bad.com). However, I tried loads of different live CDs, tried fresh installs, lots of different qemu images, and all had issues of one sort or another – such not having Apache installed, the NIC not working, and so on and so forth.

I made some good headway yesterday when I found Suse Studio, this allows you to create an image, with as much or as little on it as you need. You can then download it as a qemu image, which works nicely with UNetLab.
So now I have a working setup.I won’t be keeping the Win host there, that was just for testing as I have not sorted out the rest of the topology yet.

The Apache configuration is working and serving the two websites:

If you want to set this up at home then you will need to have apache running two virtual hosts. The conf files need to live under /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ (for Suse at least). The configurations are below:

good.com.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName www.good.com
    DocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/www.good.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/www.good.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/www.good.com-access_log combined
    HostnameLookups Off
    UseCanonicalName Off
    ServerSignature On
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/www/vhosts/www.good.com/cgi-bin/"
    <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/www.good.com/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -Includes
        <IfModule !mod_access_compat.c>
            Require all granted
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_access_compat.c>
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
    <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
        UserDir public_html
        Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf
    </IfModule>
    <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/www.good.com">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        <IfModule !mod_access_compat.c>
            Require all granted
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_access_compat.c>
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

bad.com.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName www.bad.com
    DocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/www.bad.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/www.bad.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/www.bad.com-access_log combined
    HostnameLookups Off
    UseCanonicalName Off
    ServerSignature On
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/www/vhosts/www.bad.com/cgi-bin/"
    <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/www.bad.com/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -Includes
        <IfModule !mod_access_compat.c>
            Require all granted
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_access_compat.c>
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
    <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
        UserDir public_html
        Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf
    </IfModule>
    <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/www.bad.com">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        <IfModule !mod_access_compat.c>
            Require all granted
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_access_compat.c>
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then all you need is a simple HTML page under /srv/www/vhosts/www.good.com/ and /srv/www/vhosts/www.bad.com/.

Apache can be started using the command “rcapache2 start”, but you do need to switch to the root user, using “su -” and type in the root password, which is “linux”.

The VM also has:

  • Bind (DNS)
  • NTP
  • FTP (Server)
This makes it a bit useful for future play!

If you want to download the VM, which is pre-IP’d and set up you can click the download link below. All you need to do is set up a hosts entry of DNS entry pointing to the VM’s IP address (198.250.99.100). Note that the password for all accounts is “linux”.

8 Comments

  1. Praveen April 2, 2016
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