Software installation has never been more fulfilling since YUM came along.
YUM is the most popular rpm based interactive package manager. It is super powerful and reliable.
In this quick article, I show how to install apache web server, the world’s most popular web server in your Linux Server.
You need to have root access to do this. You also need to have internet access on the server you are installing apache.
Simply run the command
sudo yum install httpd
That’s it. Yum does the rest.
Once done, which takes about 10 seconds, start the httpd server
Sudo service httpd start
Once the service starts, simply use a browser to access the server (use the default server name or the ip address).
Or you can choose the geeky way to use curl to test out. I created a basic html file. Here is how to access it
Curl http://localhost/index.html
You can check access.log to see how you did. Access_log is present under /var/log/httpd/
The configuration file for apache (httpd.conf) will be under /etc/httpd. (This depends on your platform).
That’s it. Your own enterprise grade Web Server, up and running in about 10 seconds.
Way to go YUM !!