APACHE INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION

Q. Host a website named as “first.com”

A. – Install “httpd” package.

Go to configuration file, copy last 7 lines and paste at the end also uncomment it. And add one more directive called “DirectoryIndex”

That section called “Virtual Host”, the query goes like this:

1^st “ServerName” and search for website name.

2^nd “DocumentRoot” and Looks for the path, where to find the files.

3^rd “DirectoryIndex” search for the name of the main file.

(We can change the ‘name’ and ‘path’ of “ServerName”, “DocumentRoot” & “DirectoryIndex” as per our need.)

CustomLog: To get the hit of your website

ErrorLog: To get the error if website is not working

1^st container is always a Master Container.

If any request came and VH i.e. Virtual Host is not present then the request is handled by GLOBAL Section.

Same as VH, if “ServerName”, “DocumentRoot” & “DirectoryIndex” is not present in Virtual Host (VH) then it will search in GLOBAL Section.

DocumentRoot of Global Section is: /var/www/html.

Practical

<SERVER>

1) # yum install httpd

2) # vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com

DocumentRoot /opt/website_directory1

ServerName first.com

DirectoryIndex index.html [WE ADD THIS EXTRA LINE]

ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log

CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common

</VirtualHost>

:wq!

3) # mkdir /opt/website_directory1 && cd /opt/website_directory1

# vim index.html

This is first website

:wq!

4) # httpd –t

To test the configuration file.

[To remove warning, Go to configuration file & uncomment the “ServerName” line]

5) # /etc/init.d/iptables stop

6) Disable SELINUX

# vim /etc/selinux/config

7) # /etc/init.d/httpd reload

<CLIENT>

1) # vim /etc/hosts

<server-ip> first.com

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