WEB SERVER IN LINUX

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WEB SERVER IN LINUX

Setup Name Based Virtual Hosting in Linux

www.example.com
www.aitcloud.com

Check and install web server packages

 
#yum groupinstall “Basic Web Server”
#yum install httpd –y

Entry in hosts file


#vi /etc/hosts
192.168.2.1     ait.example.com     ait
192.168.2.1     www.example.com     www
192.168.2.1     www.aitcloud.com    www

Create two web hosting directories


#mkdir -p /var/www/html/example.com
#mkdir -p /var/www/html/aitcloud.com
#chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/example.com
#chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/aitcloud.com

Create index page for each website

example.com website


                                    
#cd /var/www/html/example.com
#vi index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>EXAMPLE.COM WEBSITE</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to Example.com</h1>
</body>
</html>

aitcloud.com website


#cd /var/www/html/aitcloud.com
#vi index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>AITCLOUD.COM WEBSITE</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to aitcloud.com</h1>
</body>
</html>

Configure Virtual Host for each websites


#vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName aitcloud.com
ServerAlias www.aitcloud.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/aitcloud.com
</VirtualHost>

Start/stop/restart Apache (httpd) Server


#systemctl start httpd
#systemctl stop httpd
#systemctl restart httpd
#systemctl status httpd

Open firewall for port number 80


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

Configure SELinux Security Framework to allow


#chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t
/var/www/html/example.com
#chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t
/var/www/html/aitcloud.com

Access the websites by hostname

Setup IP based Virtual Hosting in Linux


192.168.2.1     www.example.com
192.168.2.2     www.aitcloud.com

Entry in hosts file


#vi /etc/hosts
192.168.2.1   ait.example.com     ait
192.168.2.1   www.example.com     www
192.168.2.2   www.aitcloud.com    www

All other settings are same as per Name Based Virtual Hosting, only make the changes as highlighted for IP Based Virtual Hosting


#vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<VirtualHost 192.168.2.1:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 192.168.2.2:80>
ServerName aitcloud.com
ServerAlias www.aitcloud.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/aitcloud.com
</VirtualHost>

Start/stop/restart Apache (httpd) Server


#systemctl start httpd
#systemctl stop httpd
#systemctl restart httpd
#systemctl status httpd

Access the websites by using IP Addresses

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