WEB375 Week 8 Course Project
Week 8 – Course Project – WEB375
Dhavalkumar Rabari
DeVry University
,WEB375 Week 8 Course Project
DeVry Daily Tribune
Web Architecture Plan
Introduction
Because of the explosion in digital news sources, DeVry Television and DeVry Radio have
decided to merge their communications media businesses in order to better defend against this
online assault. They plan to co-locate their broadcast and news offices in a single building where
they also plan to establish a strong digital news presence. The new business is called DeVry
RadioVision (DRV) and has the domain www.drv.edu.
The business has hired us—WEB375 Consulting—to design a secure and robust web
architecture for its new facility. Our contract requires us to deliver a diagram of the web
architecture plan and instructions that their system administrator can use to set up each of the
servers they need. Luckily for us, DRV has chosen to go with Linux, which is our specialty, as
the core operating system for its servers.
The following are the core requirements for the web architecture.
• Electronic mail for DRV's 200 employees. Employees in the building (on the LAN) can
access their e-mail with any e-mail client, but employees offsite must use a web-based e-mail
client.
• Secure FTP for company employees to upload digital video from mobile
phones whenever they happen to be at the scene of a breaking story. All company
employees should upload digital video to their own individual directories and not have access to
other user's video.
• Anonymous FTP for the public to upload digital video from mobile phones whenever
they happen to be at the scene of a breaking story. The public can also download selected
royalty-free or creative commons videos that the broadcast company decides to make available
for offline viewing. This may be hosted on a different machine from the secure FTP server.
• A dynamic new website supported by a LAMP architecture. Reporters will be able to
write and submit their news stories through the web interface, which will save the stories in the
database. The web application will present these stories to users when they visit the website.
• DeVryRadioVision already has the above PHP web application developed; we just need
to design and develop instructions for the installation of the web server and database server to
support the application.
,WEB375 Week 8 Course Project
• A DHCP server on the local network to distribute IP addresses will be required.
DRV leaders do not want to use a router-based solution but, instead, want the ability to
configure their own computer-based DHCP server.
• A local DNS service to speed name resolution for web access is needed.
DeVry RadioVision plans to try several innovative web-based digital initiatives in the next year
in order to reassert itself in the broadcast news marketplace. The company is very security
conscious because it wants to keep these initiatives secret until they are ready. Once its web
technologies are deployed, it does not want the website or its data breached.The company wants
as few services exposed to the Internet as possible, and each server should have a local firewall
installed that only permits access to services installed on the server and SSH for remote
access.We only need to provide a design and instructions with an explanation of the steps
required to install and configure the web architecture you are recommending.
, WEB375 Week 8 Course Project
Linux Administrator Account Set-up
1. Log in to your server as the root user.
ssh root@server_ip_address
• Use the adduser command to add a new user to your system.
Be sure to replace username with the user that you want to create.
adduser username
Set and confirm the new user's password at the prompt. A strong password is highly
recommended!
Set password prompts:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Follow the prompts to set the new user's information. It is fine to accept the defaults to
leave all of this information blank.
User information prompts:
Changing the user information for username
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [Y/n]
• Use the usermod command to add the user to the sudo group.
usermod -aG sudo username
By default, on Ubuntu, members of the sudo group have sudo privileges.
• Test sudo access on new user account
Week 8 – Course Project – WEB375
Dhavalkumar Rabari
DeVry University
,WEB375 Week 8 Course Project
DeVry Daily Tribune
Web Architecture Plan
Introduction
Because of the explosion in digital news sources, DeVry Television and DeVry Radio have
decided to merge their communications media businesses in order to better defend against this
online assault. They plan to co-locate their broadcast and news offices in a single building where
they also plan to establish a strong digital news presence. The new business is called DeVry
RadioVision (DRV) and has the domain www.drv.edu.
The business has hired us—WEB375 Consulting—to design a secure and robust web
architecture for its new facility. Our contract requires us to deliver a diagram of the web
architecture plan and instructions that their system administrator can use to set up each of the
servers they need. Luckily for us, DRV has chosen to go with Linux, which is our specialty, as
the core operating system for its servers.
The following are the core requirements for the web architecture.
• Electronic mail for DRV's 200 employees. Employees in the building (on the LAN) can
access their e-mail with any e-mail client, but employees offsite must use a web-based e-mail
client.
• Secure FTP for company employees to upload digital video from mobile
phones whenever they happen to be at the scene of a breaking story. All company
employees should upload digital video to their own individual directories and not have access to
other user's video.
• Anonymous FTP for the public to upload digital video from mobile phones whenever
they happen to be at the scene of a breaking story. The public can also download selected
royalty-free or creative commons videos that the broadcast company decides to make available
for offline viewing. This may be hosted on a different machine from the secure FTP server.
• A dynamic new website supported by a LAMP architecture. Reporters will be able to
write and submit their news stories through the web interface, which will save the stories in the
database. The web application will present these stories to users when they visit the website.
• DeVryRadioVision already has the above PHP web application developed; we just need
to design and develop instructions for the installation of the web server and database server to
support the application.
,WEB375 Week 8 Course Project
• A DHCP server on the local network to distribute IP addresses will be required.
DRV leaders do not want to use a router-based solution but, instead, want the ability to
configure their own computer-based DHCP server.
• A local DNS service to speed name resolution for web access is needed.
DeVry RadioVision plans to try several innovative web-based digital initiatives in the next year
in order to reassert itself in the broadcast news marketplace. The company is very security
conscious because it wants to keep these initiatives secret until they are ready. Once its web
technologies are deployed, it does not want the website or its data breached.The company wants
as few services exposed to the Internet as possible, and each server should have a local firewall
installed that only permits access to services installed on the server and SSH for remote
access.We only need to provide a design and instructions with an explanation of the steps
required to install and configure the web architecture you are recommending.
, WEB375 Week 8 Course Project
Linux Administrator Account Set-up
1. Log in to your server as the root user.
ssh root@server_ip_address
• Use the adduser command to add a new user to your system.
Be sure to replace username with the user that you want to create.
adduser username
Set and confirm the new user's password at the prompt. A strong password is highly
recommended!
Set password prompts:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Follow the prompts to set the new user's information. It is fine to accept the defaults to
leave all of this information blank.
User information prompts:
Changing the user information for username
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [Y/n]
• Use the usermod command to add the user to the sudo group.
usermod -aG sudo username
By default, on Ubuntu, members of the sudo group have sudo privileges.
• Test sudo access on new user account
