Install Apache2 web server

Installation

apt-get install apache2

Hints

DNS lookups

Doing reverse DNS hostname lookups on every request in apache (to have those domain names in the log file) is a bad idea as it will slow your server down, everybody seems to agree on that. Yesterday I noticed one of our servers doing just that, despite me not having remembered turning that feature on. Took me a bit of searching and cursing to find the culprit.

There are a few reasons why Apache (or Apache2) will start looking up hostnames: