Starting Your Web Server

You are now ready to start and then test drive your Web server.

Test Drive Your Web Server

SU to root

Change directory to your ServerRoot [/usr/local/etc/httpd]

type: ./httpd to start the server

If there are any errors you will see the message echoed to the screen when you start httpd

Telnet to the localhost port 80 [telnet localhost 80]

type: GET / [ENTER]

Watch the stream of data

Check your process log to determine that httpd is running

ps -aux | egrep httpd

You are ready to configure your server to start httpd when it boots

Add the following to the end of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local

# Start Up the NCSA httpd

if [ -f /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd ]; then

        /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd

        echo "Loading httpd "

fi

When the computer boots Linux will look for the file /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd, and if it is found it will be run. If the file is not found the step will be skipped and the computer will continue to boot, allowing the administrator to correct the problem.

To KILL and RESTART the server daemon process do the following:

Open up a unix shell

Type: kill -1 'cat pidfile'

Where pidfile is the setting of PidFile you selected for your server

Example:

kill -1 'cat /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/httpd.pid

To KILL the server daemon process and not restart it

Open up a unix shell

Type kill 'cat pidfile'

Try to avoid the kill -9 'cat pidfile' because only the parent will be killed not the children processes

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