In this Help File I'll discuss on setting up a simple Apache Webserver install. By the
end of this tutorial you'll be able to serve plain HTML pages. I'm assuming that
you already have a base Debian installation installed.
Installing
Get root access.
Type: apt-get install apache
It will probably install extra packages such as: apache-common. Press [Y]
After it finishes installing it will run apacheconfig it will say Finding
DSO mods....... and so on. Just wait and say [Yes] when Save these changes to
to the configuration files? [Y/n].
You'll see a whole bunch of messages. You might get a few error messages such
as: [Sun Aug 18 14:00:05 2002] [alert] apache: Could not determine the server's
fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName Don't worry I'll
discuss how to fix this on the next section.
Configuartion
First thing you should know is that the Debian package[*.deb] of Apache saves
its configuration file to /etc/apache/httpd.conf .
So to edit it, type: vi /etc/apache/httpd.conf (I'm assuming you know how
to use the vi editor. You can also use emacs, which there is a Help File for. Note: You
have to be root.)
Now look for ServerName. You should come across #ServerName new.host.name. Just get rid of the # sign. (In configuration files "#" makes it ignore things
after it.).
Also change new.host.name to what you would like. In my case I use
www.ragex.org.
Also, as side note, DocumentRoot is set to /var/www. That means that things in
the /var/www folder will show up on your website. So /var/www/index.html is your
your main page of your webserver.
Now that where good to go restart the server by typing as root.
/etc/init.d/apache restart
Thats all! Have fun!
I'll write more articles when I have time on installing / configuring "cgi-bin"
and php.
