How to build an apache webserver

[Les Mikesell]

Randy Easley wrote:

> Fedora includes apache.  If you don't have it already, just:
> yum install httpd httpd-devel
> and
> chkconfig httpd on
> service httpd start
> 
> But if you are going to run this for serious production, I'd use RHEL or
> 
> CentOS instead of fedora so you don't have to do frequent OS version 
> updates with the associated stability risks.
> 
> 
> *This is only for home network practice. I have been using fedora for
> years some old redhat also, I have just never learned the basics of
> setting up a webserver and want to learn how. From the ground up. 

If you really want 'ground up', grab the source from www.apache.org and 
compile it. I don't recommend that these days since the packaged version 
is fine and there are plenty of higher-level content managers and 
add-ons that can suck up all your time.  What you should learn, though, 
is what you can do in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and the pieces that get 
included from /etc/httpd/conf.d/.

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  Les Mikesell
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