Setting-up and running APACHE server

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Ali writes:
| Thanks to the help from David Kramer, twg3, Jerry Feldman, and et al,
| I installed Linux 7.2 on my desktop PC during the weekend.
 ...
| I have not been able to locate the httpd.conf file to check its
| enteries, specially the line for "localhost".
| Where is httpd.conf is located in RedHat 7.2?
|
| I wonder if any knows how to go about resolving this Apache setup problem?


Heh.  I've found that most distributions seem  to  come  with  apache
installed  in undocumented places, and it's a lot of work to find all
the pieces. Here's a much simpler solution:  Go to www.apache.org and
download  the latest version.  It comes with README and INSTALL files
that explain the basics very well.  Getting it compiled  and  running
(with  a  few  tweaks  like  inserting my email address as the admin)
takes 15 or 20 minutes. All the pieces are put into /usr/local/apache
by  default,  or  in  a  directory  you  can specify when you run the
configure script.  It's a whole lot easier  than  figuring  out  some
vendor's  clever  (but  poorly  documented)  ideas  of  where to move
everything.

The apache gang has done a very good job of making  the  installation
simple and straightforward.

The main thing remaining is finding the right place to insert a  link
to apachectl, so that the server will come up at boot.  This seems to
be somewhat different in different vendors' releases, and  I  haven't
seen  enough  of  them  to be able to say with any authority where it
should go. /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K15httpd seems to be the RedHat place.