Part 7: Setting up an Apache Webserver - Paiet/SEC-440-Webmin GitHub Wiki

Setting Apache to start at system boot time, follow these steps to start Apache at system boot time: Navigate to System | Bootup, and Shutdown. Select the checkbox next to the init script for the Apache webserver (it will be named apache2, httpd, or similarly). Click the Start On Boot button. Monitoring that Apache is up and running, the HTTP server crashes users will be unable to connect to your website or use your web application. If this happens, you should be notified as soon as possible so that you can take appropriate action to restart and fix your server.

Verifying Apache configuration syntax, To check whether your configuration files contain no error, which would prevent Apache from starting, issue the following command:$ sudo apachectl configtest

If everything is fine, the command will return the message Syntax OK.

What can an Apache Webserver do?

The most straightforward task that an Apache server can perform is to serve a static website. When a browser sends an HTTP request to such a site, Apache processes the incoming URL, maps its path to a file on disk, and returns the contents of that file to the browser. A web page is rendered in the browser if the file contains HTML code.

A single Apache instance can serve multiple websites, but we will configure only a single website as Apache's default site for this recipe. If this is your only configuration, it will be used regardless of the IP address or domain name associated with the incoming request.

In this recipe, we will configure Apache as a single-site server. It will respond to incoming requests with static files from the directory /var/www/default.

If you want to serve different websites under different domain names, you will have to create virtual host configurations. This topic is covered in the recipe Creating a virtual host.

The Apache Webserver moduleS can be located under U"Un-used Modules" section, and it must be installed before continuing. 2. On the Apache Webserver page, start by clicking "create virtual host" and setting up your launch page/index.html file: 3. On the creation page, enter Specify Address (the address the webserver is running on) and the Port (typically port 80). 4. Using a web browser and searching for the IP and Port Number should yield a similar result to the screenshot below.