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Beginners Guides: Website Hosting With Apache
Beginners Guides: Website Hosting With Apache - PCSTATS
Apache has been around since 1995 and is the main alternative to Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) web hosting technology.
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External Mfg. Website: PCSTATS Apr 11 2006   M. Dowler  
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Domain and Server Name

If Apache was installed before a domain name was registered, or the name of the domain or server has been changed, we need to make some adjustments. These changes can be made in Apache HTTP server by editing the httpd.doc file. find the 'servername' entry in the file and change it to the appropriate value.

Creating a simple website to test Apache

While this Beginners Guide will not deal with creating or editing web sites or HTML files for use with Apache, we are going to cover how to create a basic (very basic) HTML file to serve as your 'home page' for testing Apache. All we are going to do is fire up a word processor, type a few lines, then save the resulting document as an HTML file, something most word processors can do easily. While the resulting file will not do (obviously) for creating complex websites, it does just fine as a tester to make sure everything is working fine with the web server.

Open Word or another fairly recent word processing program (WordPerfect, OpenOffice, and even Notepad will do just fine). Create a new document and type "Apache home page test" or something similar in the document. Now go to the 'file' menu and select 'save as.'

In the save as window, select the 'file type' dropdown box. Change it to 'web page' (for Microsoft Word users) or 'HTML document' (for users of OpenOffice). Save the file as 'index.html' in the following location: 'c:\program files\apache group\apache2\htdocs'. This will ensure that it is the first HTML document that the Apache server attempts to open when a web page is requested. You will have to move or delete the other files in the 'htdocs' directory first though. They are the files for the default 'welcome' page and can be safely removed.

This index.html file is a very simple webpage, which means that anyone who attempts to access the website you've just configured in Apache will be greeted by it.

Now that you know how to host a basic website with Apache, you can dig deeper into the documentation yourself.

Apache is available on Linux platforms as well as Windows (and indeed it originated there), so learning the basics of the program in Windows will serve well if you ever decide to experiment with alternative operating systems since the interface is essentially the same.

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Contents of Article: PCSTATS
 Pg 1.  Beginners Guides: Website Hosting With Apache
 Pg 2.  Can anyone host a website?
 Pg 3.  A Networks' Default Gateway
 Pg 4.  Acquiring a DNS Domain Name (URL) for a Website
 Pg 5.  Configuring firewalls for website hosting
 Pg 6.  Creating a Virtual Server
 Pg 7.  Part 2: Installing and using Apache Web server
 Pg 8.  Apache Status and Services
 Pg 9.  Basic Apache configuration
 Pg 10.  — Domain and Server Name

 
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