Web Server installation in Redhat OS / CentOS

A web server is a computer system that processes requests via HTTP, the basic network protocol used to distribute information on the World Wide Web. The web server may be a entire system or may a software that serves the http requests.

Apache is the web server which is used maximum in the world. It runs on every OS and that’s the reason why it is so popular. But there is one disadvantage in it that it does not able to run JSP pages. To overcome this problem Apache-Tomcat is used.

 

Steps to install web server :-

Step 1 :- First check that the httpd package is instaaled or not by the following command:-

• rpm -q httpd

Step 2 :- If it is not installed then run the following command:-

• yum install httpd

Step 3 :- Now to check the configuration files run the following command:-

• rpm -qc httpd

The main configuration file is in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

Step 4 :- Now after installation the service will have to restart by the following command:-

• systemctl restart httpd
• systemctl enable httpd
• systemctl status httpd

 

According to web server, it reads the configure file from /var/www/html/.

Now put the webpage on this location named as index.html. If it is put in the different name then it will not run.

Now type the webpage name in the browser and the page runs in it.