How to Configure Apache/Httpd on Ubuntu?

In this tutorial, we’ll be going through the steps of How to Configure Apache/Httpd on Ubuntu and how to set up a complete Apache web server on your machine. A complete guide of configuration Apache webserver.

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Configure Apache/Httpd on Ubuntu Table of Content

1. What is Apache/httpd?
2. Install Apache Complete Package.
3. Configure the Apache server on your machine.

What is Apache/httpd?

Apache is an open-source web server that’s available for Linux servers free of charge. It runs on 67% of all webservers in the world. It provides many powerful features including dynamically loadable modules, robust media support, and extensive integration with other popular software. Read more

Install Apache Complete Package.

Apache Packages is available within Ubuntu’s default software repositories, making it possible to install it using conventional package management tools.

Let’s begin by updating the local package index to reflect the latest upstream changes:

sudo apt update

Then, install the apache2 package:

sudo apt install apache2

After this process, the apache web server is installed on your web server. Then you can check the status of the service

systemctl status apache2

if the serves is disable and inactive then you can enable and start ther service using these commands

systemctl enable apache2
systemctl start apache2

You can verify web server, to run your server ip on your browser that give you the default page of apache server.

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Add the Apache service in your firewall

Once you installed and activaed the service now move to next step that is addind your service to firewall using this command:

firewall-cmd --permenant --add-service=http

After rrunning this command the output is success and then you sould reload the firewall using this command:

firewall-cmd --reload

Once you add and reload your firewall now you can verify that the service by using this command:

firewall-cmd --list-all

The output of this command you can see the http add in your service

Configure the Apache server on your machine.

Once installed and add service to your machine you have to configure the Apache server to your machine. For configuration first, you have to know the index.html file location that this location is for the apache default page.

Before moving forward it’s necessary to create a virtual host file with the correct directives.the file is located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-domain.conf directory. instead of modifying the default configuration let’s make a new one at /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-domain.conf using this command:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_domain.conf

Paste in the following configuration block, which is similar to the default, but updated for our new directory and domain name:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName your_domain
    ServerAlias www.your_domain
    DocumentRoot /var/www/your_domain
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/var/www/html/webserver1">
AllowOerride none
Require all granted
</Directory>

Now you can verify the setting of virtual host that you are set bu using the command

Apache2 -t

if the output is the command is Syntx Ok that fine . if there is an error in ther Syntx:

than you should run this command.

source /etc/apache2/envvars

after runnig this command you can see the Syntax Ok, that’s fine.

After this configuration you must restart you apache service by using this command

systemctl restart apache2

Apache should now be serving your domain name. You can test this by navigating to HTTP://yourdomain.com, where you should see that your website is working properly.

All done for the Configure Apache/Httpd on Ubuntu you can follow this whole process and can set up successfully your Apache server. The installation process on Centos is the same but just a few commands are different.

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