Sorry this is so brief but setting up a simple Apache WWW server is very easy. But, configuring all of the advanced features is WAY out of the scope of this doc.
- Download the newest version of the standard Apache or SSL-encrypted WWW server for Linux from the URL in Section 5
- Install the new apache software:
Redhat: rpm -Uvh apache-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm
Slackware: tar -xzvf apache_1.2.6.tar.gz
- Now, edit your WWW pages in the following directories based upon your Linux distribution
Redhat: /home/httpd/html
- Upon the fact that the WWW server runs fine, re-enable HTTPD upon boot.
- To do this, UN-DO all edits for HTTPD lines in Section 8
- Also don't forget to re-enable HTTPD log rotation if you disabled it towards the end of Section 9.
- If you want to be able to directly FTP files to the /home/httpd/html directory, you need to make sure the given logins and the Apache html dir has proper group permissions:
- edit /etc/passwd and in the 4th field delimenated by ":"s, change the GID or GroupID to "4" for ALL people that should be able write to the global HTML dir.
i.e. dranch:x:500:4::/home/dranch:/bin/bash
- Next, fix the permissions of the /home/httpd/html dir
chgrp -R adm /home/httpd/html
chmod 775 /home/httpd/html
chmod 764 /home/httpd/html/*