Someone recently asked me to help them install a Web server
on her Linux system. I simply pointed her Web browser at http:// localhost, and
up came a “Test Page” from Red Hat’s Apache package, displaying the banner “It
worked!”
At Your Service: Most Linux distributions will install the Open Source Apache Web server by default.
Someone recently asked me to help them install a Web server on her Linux system. I simply pointed her Web browser at http:// localhost, and up came a “Test Page” from Red Hat’s Apache package, displaying the banner “It worked!”
The point is that most Linux distributions already include the Apache Web server package and will install it either by default or through a simple selection from the installation scripts. So if you have installed Linux, no additional work is required to install a Web server; you’ve already done it.
It sometimes happens, however, that your distribution may not have included the particular Web server you want to use. Or you may want to upgrade an existing Web server to a newer version. In that case, you may have to install one of the many Linux Web server packages using your distribution’s package management facilities, or by grabbing a tarball of the Web server’s sources, compiling them, and installing them manually.
There is not enough space to go into great detail on these alternatives. Fortunately, even a manual package install is rather simple. To install a new Web server package from an RPM file, you would use a command like:
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