Using and Abusing Services
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Starting with Apache
If you have Kali running on your system, Apache is already installed. Many
other Linux distros have it installed by default as well. If you don’t have
Apache installed, you can download and install it from the repositories by
entering the following:
kali >
apt-get install apache2
The Apache Web Server is often associated with the MySQL database
(which we will look at in the next section) and these two services are very
often paired with a scripting language such as Python or PHP to develop
web applications. This combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP
or Python forms a powerful and robust platform for the development and
deployment of web-based applications, known collectively as
LAMP. These
are the most widely used tools for developing websites in the Linux world—
and they’re very popular in the Microsoft world too, where they’re generally
referred to as
WAMP, with the
W standing for Windows.
From the command line enter the following:
kali >
