Installing Apache on Linux (RH9)

browse to rpmfind.net, search for hpptd, and select version for OS

rpm -qa | grep hpptd                  (check if already installed)
rpm -ihv hpptd*                       (to install apache rpm)
rpm -ql hpptd | less                  (find Apache httpd.conf file)

vi httpd.conf (ver 2.0.40-21) 

 Basic setup:
  ServerRoot /etc/httpd                (location of Apache)
  ServerAdmin root@localhost           (root email)
  ServerName myhostname.localdomain:80 (update to correct hostname)
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html           (location of docs to serve)

 To select default home page names:
  DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var homepage.htm

 To enable user directories:
  #UserDir disable
  UserDir public_html


service httpd start/start/restart
apachectl start/stop/restart

chmod 755 (all directories in path to published docs)
chmod 644 (html-files doc files)