Apache/Configuration

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Configuring Apache WebServer

GUI Tools:

There are some GUI tools to configure Apache web server but they mostly do the basic or intermediate levels of configurations. For advanced configuration, modifying the configuration file. is the way to go. Some GUI tools are: Comanche, TkApache, LinuxConf, WebMin, ApacheConf, user_manage. Among them, Webmin is browser based and may be a better choice than the others.

Basic Apache Configuration Information is as below:

Apache has three configuration files:

httpd.conf
access.conf
srm.conf

httpd.conf is the main file, you can forget about the others.

A basic configuration file may look like the following:

ServerName www.justetc.net #host name .. serving website URL
listen 192.168.0.1:80 # listen to the network interface 192.168.0.1 and port 80
listen 192.168.0.1:400 # listen to the network interface 192.168.0.1 and port 400
User nobody #connect to the apache server as the user nobody #default
Group nobody
ServerAdmin admin@justetc.net #email of the administrator
ServerRoot /usr/locale/apache #apache's main working folder, apache keeps essential files here
ErrorLog logs/error_log #to keep track of errors
TransferLog logs/access_log #check the access, may make website slower
DocumentRoot /home/www/justetc

You can create your own user and set that to access webpages

groupadd -g httpd useradd -u 999 -g httpd -s /bin/false -c 'Web Server'

then use

User httpd Group httpd

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