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HOWTO: Setup Apache server on Fedora
02/12/10
05:38:00 pm, by richard 
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Categories: Fedora, Installing and Configuration, Systems Administration, Apache Web Server
HOWTO: Setup Apache server on Fedora
To install and configure Apache web server is really simple the second or third time. 
To install the software, use yum or rpm to install the rpm httpd.
Setting an automatic start for Apache on a reboot of your server. this is not automatically setup as with all services in Fedora.
Set the httpd service to start up for the default runlevels
Confirmation of automatic startup and which levels it will be starting on
To start up the service use the normal stop, start and restart options on the command line with service.
This last one tests the syntax of all the conf files that will be loaded, spitting out diagnostic lines as necessary.
Adding Virtual hosts.
NameVirtualHost *:443
sudo mv mod_dnssd.conf 00_mod_dnssd.conf
sudo mv python.conf 05_python.conf
sudo mv welcome.conf 99_welcome.conf
# There must not be a ServerName in this config file or it will not function
# as we hope it will do.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
# Indexes + Directory Root.
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/default/
# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/default/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
# Logfiles
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/default_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/default_custom.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Test/check that syntax for the file is correct, if it is start or reload the service httpd.
sudo service httpd start
sudo nano /var/www/default/index.html
<p>This is the default web page for this server.</p>
<p>The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.</p>
</body></html>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
# Indexes + Directory Root.
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/
# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/example.com/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
# Logfiles
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/example.com_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/example.com_custom.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Test/check that syntax for the file is correct, if it is reload the service httpd.
sudo service httpd reload
Create the index page for example.com site. No need to go too mad on this temporary marker page.
<html><body><h1> Default start page for example.com</h1>
<p>This is the default web page for this server.</p>
<p>The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.</p>
</body></html>
# Redirect all requests for a www host
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1
[R=301,QSA,L]
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