Apache is an open source web server application which is widely used by many organizations. In this article we gonna see how to install and run apache on different distributors through direct installation.
Direct Installation:
RPM Machines:
For RPM based machines such as centos,Fedora,etc.,. we can install it through yum
$ yum install httpd
The above command will install default apache for RPM based machines. The default conf directory is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf which contains all configuration statements. These statements don't need to be changed if its a basic installation.
The web files are stored under the default path/var/www/html. This path can be modified according to users wish on httpd.conf at DocumentRoot.
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
To start the webserver run the below command,
$ /etc/init.d/httpd start
Debian machines:
For Debian based machines such as Ubuntu,Mint,etc.,. we can install it through apt.
The command line to install apache in debian based machines,
$ apt-get install apache2
The default conf directory is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
To start the application,
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 start
Now you have successfully installed Apache web server on your server. The apache will run on port 80 by default.
On the upcoming articles will see how to setup a virtual host or domain running on your server.
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