What is Apache ?
The Apache webserver is an opensource and popular HTTP web server that continues to enjoy a massive market share in the hosting industry. It ships with loads of features including module enhancements, multi-protocol support, simplified configuration, and multi-language support to mention just a few.
How To Install Apache on Centos 8 ?
You just need to update your current system and use dnf package manager for installing using the following commands
$ sudo dnf update
$ sudo dnf install httpdValidation
You can use rpm -qa <package name > for validation
Starting the Apache Server
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl status httpd
From the output, the ‘active‘ status indicates that the Apache webserver is up and running.
Validation
From any browser , you can issue http://<Listening_IP_Address> or http://hostname
Setting Up Apache Virtual Hosts
A virtual host is a separate file that contains configurations that allow you to set up a separate domain from the default one. For this guide, we will set up a virtual host for the domain alfa.unixcop.com/
The default virtual host is located at the /var/www/html directory. This works only for a single site. To create a separate virtual host for our domain, we will create another directory structure within the /var/www directory as shown.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/alfa.unixcop.comNext, edit the file permissions use the $USER environment variable as shown.
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/alfa.unixcop.com/htmlAlso, adjust the permissions of the webroot directory as shown.
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/wwwNext, create a sample index.html file using the following command.
sudo vi /var/www/alfa.unixcop.com/html/index.html<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Alfa.unixcop.com!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>virtual host is up and perfectly working!</h1>
</body>
</html>Save and exit the configuration file.
Next, we need to create alfa.unixcop.com.conf as the configuration file for the virtual host using the following
cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/
sudo vi alfa.unixcop.com.confand add below :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.alfa.unixcop.com
ServerAlias alfa.unixcop.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/alfa.unixcop.com/html
</VirtualHost>Restart Apache for the changes to be applied.
$ sudo systemctl restart httpdLast thing , you need to open any browser and issue http://alfa.unixcop.com
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