Installing HTTPD Server on CentOS 6

HTTPD (Hypertext Transfer Protocal Deamon) is a web server widely used with CentOS and Redhat Linux.It serves the webpages on clients requests. It is developed by Apache foundation. HTTPD is very easy in install and configure.

Installing httpd using yum.

# yum install httpd

Default httpd basic configuration are as following.

Configuration file: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Port: 80
Document root: /var/www/html
Log file location: /var/log/httpd

Setup virtual host in httpd configuration file Append below setting in httpd configuration file

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName www.tecadmin.net
 ServerAdmin support@tecadmin.net
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

Start httpd service

# service httpd start

Confugure httpd to start on system boot.

chkconfig httpd on