1. Install Apache Server

Step 1: Update Your System

On RHEL-based systems:

sudo dnf update -y

Updating system (fedora)

Step 2: Install Apache Web Server

On RHEL-based systems:

sudo dnf install httpd -y

Installing Apache web server

Step 3: Enable the Services

On RHEL-based systems:

sudo systemctl enable httpd.service

Starting services for the Apache Web Server

Step 4: Test the Server by Hosting a Simple Website

First, we will create a directory for our test website using the following command.

sudo mkdir /var/www/html/test_website/

Now we will add index.html for our test website along with some testing code using the following command.

echo '<html><head><title>Example</title></head><body><h1>GFG</h1><p>This is a test.</p></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/test_website/index.html

Now we will add the configuration file using the following command

sudo echo '<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName web.testingserver.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/website
    DirectoryIndex index.html
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/example.com_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/example.com_requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>' > /etc/httpd/conf.d/web.conf

Once we create the required config file and test the website, we will need to own the Apache website directory for permissions.

We will use the chown and chmod commands as follows

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/test_website
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/test_website

Now you can see the locally hosted website on your localhost.

Testing the website on the local server

If the above-mentioned steps are performed correctly, Apache Web Server will run successfully! However, If it doesn't work, then you can uninstall Apache Web Server and start the installation again.

Step 5: Add firewall rules

To make our pages available to public, we will have to edit our firewall rules to allow HTTP requests on our web server using the following commands.

# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
# firewall-cmd --reload

How to Uninstall Apache Web Server?

On RHEL-based systems

sudo yum remove httpd

Hence, we have successfully uninstalled Apache Web Server in Linux!

Last modified: 03 December 2024