Apache2 webserver
Installation
sudo apt-get install apache2
Configuration
General settings: apache2.conf
File: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Make sure you keep an original if you feel you should change things, however, you can make every setting you want in the site-specific files.
sudo cp /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf-backup
General settings (legacy): httpd.conf
File: /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Many examples on the web will point you to httpd.conf, you should use apache2.conf instead.
Specific site settings: sites-available
Directory: /etc/apache2/sites-available/
Create a copy for each site in this folder, that is one file per domain and port. Examples of different sites and urls:
- http://newsite.org (http default port is 80)
- http://newsite2.org (different domain)
- https://newsite2.org (https default port is 443)
- http://newsite2.org:8080 (custom port)
- Probably you have some example site settings 'default':
File: /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
You can start your configuration by making a copy of the example:
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/http_newsite.org
Here is a simple example site:
<VirtualHost *:80> Servername newsite.org DocumentRoot /var/www/ <Directory /var/www/> AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>
A client accessing http://newsite.org will be shown the file /var/www/index.html
See also Apache2 configuration for SOGo and MediaWiki.
Enabled sites: sites-enabled
Directory: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
Create a link to the file in 'sites-available' for each site that you want enabled. You can use the tool a2ensite for that.
Enable:
sudo a2ensite http_newsite.org
Disable:
sudo a2dissite http_newsite.org
Standard location for websites
Directory: /var/www/
Apache service restart
After any configuration changes you have to restart apache2 for them to take effect:
sudo service apache2 restart
Tips
- 'Redirect permanent' is cashed client-side (browser) and clients can not be updated. Each browser's cash would need to be cleared before a change to the 'Redirect permanent' is successful. This is quite impractical, better stick to 'Redirect temp' and save yourself some trouble.
...
Redirect temp /index.html http://wilbertvolkers.dyndns.org/mediawiki/...
- Generally you should think of cashing of DNS and client-browsers when your settings don't seem to work.
- Add the following to apache2.conf to suppress a warning when you reload Apache2 stating that no fully qualified servername could be found:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
... ServerName localhost ..
