httpd issue

[coolmego]

i installed httpd in my system and wrote a html and a php code...please tell me what to do next to start the page..

[robvas]

Enter the command

/sbin/service httpd status

To see if httpd is running. If not, run

/sbin/service httpd start

Next, run the command

grep 'DocumentRoot' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

That will tell you the name of the folder you need to place your HTML files in.

Have you installed PHP and all the Apache modules to run LAMP?

[coolmego]

Thanks for your reply..as a matter i installed every packages for LAMP..

[linuxwin2k]

Start apache with
/sbin/service httpd start
test with browser

$firefox 127.0.0.1&

and tell me.

[coolmego]

thankyou for your reply...ya its showing a page..

[Fenrin]

by default the path /var/www/html is used for your websites.

If you want to add files to this location as user, you can create a group for this purpose.

su -
groupadd apache

Then add your user to this created group:

gpasswd -a [user] apache

replace "[user]" with your username.

Then set appropriate permissions to /var/www/html:

chgrp -R apache /var/www/html
chmod -R g+rw /var/www/html

If you open http://localhost/ in your browser it should show the page you just saw or the file /var/www/html/index.php if it exists (you can create and test it to see how it works).

[coolmego]

I bought a domain.Can i bind my html with that domain in httpd.If yes,how can it be done?

[Fenrin]

you probably want to setup your own webserver. Here is a guide to do this.

[coolmego]

thankyou Fenrin for providing such a good resource.