Monday, August 5, 2013

Setting up HTTPD Server in Oracle Linux

Setting up HTTPD Server in Oracle Linux:


Pre-Requisite:

Down load tomcat-connectors-1.2.37-src.tar.gz(or latest version) and copy the file to the server

Steps to setup HTTPD Server

Login as root user(or create user for httpd an provide all the access required to install httpd) to server and execute the following commands

                             yum install httpd httpd-devel gcc gcc-c++
                             yum install make
                             yum install glibc-devel.x86_64 --disablerepo=adobe\*

CD to the folder where tomcat-connectors-1.2.37-src.tar.gz file is copied and execute the following commands
                             gunzip < tomcat-connectors-1.2.37-src.tar.gz | tar xvf –

cd /<<Base Dir >>/tomcat-connectors-1.2.37-src/native and execute the following commands

                          ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --enable-api-compatibility
                          make
                          make install

The httpd server is successfully setup now.

Start/Stop the httpd instance:

Login as root user(or the user that used to install httpd server) to server and execute
                         /etc/init.d/httpd start
                        /etc/init.d/httpd stop

The server can be accessed through http://<<Server IP>>/