Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server Project (http://httpd.apache.org) is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The October 2003 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that more than 64% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.

1. By default, Apache is not configured to start everytime the server reboot. To enable this, use chkconfig to configure the run level of this service.

   chkconfig –level 2 httpd on
   chkconfig –level 3 httpd on
   chkconfig –level 4 httpd on
   chkconfig –level 5 httpd on

2. Start Apache, /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

3. SSL support is enabled by default. You can access the website with https:// or http://:443

4. Modify Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Config file for SSL, PHP, Perl, Webalizer and default Apache welcome page can be found in /etc/httpd/conf.d.

5. Turn off default Apache welcome page by comment out all directives in /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

6. Increase the value of LimitRequestBody to 9999999 (10MB) in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf
   LimitRequestBody 9999999