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ICT211 Lab 11:
Installing and Configuring the Apache HTTP Server
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn to Install the Apache web server.
2. Learn to run the Apache web server.
3. Learn to configure the Apache web server.
4. Learn to monitor the Apache web server.
Required Reading:
 Lecture Notes for Topic 11.
 Apache 2.4 Documentation:
Required Software:
 Recent versions of the web browsers Chrome, Firefox and IE.
 An SSH client such as PuTTY. PuTTY is installed in the lab machine.
External students can download the software from .
 WinSCP, which is available from the lab machines. External students can
download it from
 Access to Linux server Ceto.
 Note: Mac users can use the Terminal app (from Applications/Utilities) to
do remote logins (command ssh) and file transfers (command sftp) instead
of PuTTY and WinSCP.
Instructions

For all instructions below, replace the number 12345678 with your own
8-digit student number, and the number 15678 with the port number
allocated to you (more on this below).
1. Installing the Apache HTTP Server
You will compile and build the lastest version of the Apache HTTP Server
distribution in your own area on ceto. There is already a copy of this
lastest distribution in the unit coordinator's account (
~s900432d
). Copy it
into your home directory, unzip and untar it, then configure the makefiles
and make the installation. To do that, type in the following set of
commands on ceto, in the order specified.
Before you start the installation, you need to find out your home
directory on ceto. Type the command
cd
followed by command
pwd
to find
out your home directory. In the following example, I assume that your
home directory is
/home/student/accounts/12345678
. You need to replace
it with your real home directory.
[Note that all commands below between one "
ceto:~>
" prompt to the next
are suppose to be typed in one line. Be aware of this because your
browser may show the commands in two lines if there isn't enough space
to fit it in one line in your window. Eg: the "./configure --prefix=..."
command may be shown in two line, but please make sure the "--" and
"prefix=..." are joined without any spaces or breaks in a single line.
Also note that in the second command below "
cp
~s900432d/ICT211/httpd-2.2.13.tar.gz .
" there is a " . " at the end.]
ceto:~> cd
ceto:~> cp ~s900432d/ICT211/httpd-2.2.13.tar.gz .
ceto:~> gunzip httpd-2.2.13.tar.gz
ceto:~> tar xvf httpd-2.2.13.tar
ceto:~> cd httpd-2.2.13
ceto:~/httpd-2.2.13> ./configure
--prefix=/home/student/accounts/12345678/apache
Output should look similar to this ...
ceto:~/httpd-2.2.13> make
Output should look similar to this ...
ceto:~/httpd-2.2.13> make install
Output should look similar to this ...
The purpose of putting your own directory in the "
./configure ...
" line
is to ensure that the final server you build will operate from your home

directory rather than the default
/usr/local/apache.