Install Apache (httpd)
# yum -y install httpd
Enable the apache service so it starts when CentOS boots.
# systemctl enable httpd.service
Create the directory structure – I am going to configure this for virtual hosts from the get-go since that is the most common.
# mkdir -p /var/www/sample.com/public_html # mkdir -p /var/www/sample2.com/public_html
Change permission so a regular user can modify the files:
# chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/sample.com/public_html # chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/sample2.com/public_html
Modify permissions so that it has full read access:
# chmod -R 755 /var/www/
Add a quick demo page for each site:
# vi /var/www/sample.com/public_html/index.html # cp /var/www/sample.com/public_html/index.html /var/www/sample2.com/public_html
Create two directories firsts sites-available which will hold all the virtual files, and then a sites-enabled to hold all of the symbolic links.
# mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-available # mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-enabled
Now to tell Apache to look for the sites-enabled by editing the httpd.conf
# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Scroll to the end of the file (page down) and at the very end of the file add the following:
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
Create the virtual hosts file.
# vi /etc/httpd/sites-available/sample.com.conf
Inside of the file fill it out appropriately:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.sample.com ServerAlias sample.com DocumentRoot /var/www/sample.com/public_html ErrorLog /var/www/sample.com/error.log CustomLog /var/www/sample.com/requests.log combined </VirtualHost>
Copy the file to the other domains.
# cp /etc/httpd/sites-available/sample.com.conf /etc/httpd/sites-available/sample2.com.conf
Modify the sample2.com.conf file to reflect the second domain.
# vi /etc/httpd/sites-available/sample2.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.sample2.com ServerAlias sample2.com DocumentRoot /var/www/sample2.com/public_html ErrorLog /var/www/sample2.com/error.log CustomLog /var/www/sample2.com/requests.log combined </VirtualHost>
Create symbolic links for the virtual hosts:
# ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/sample.com.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/sample.com.conf # ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/sample2.com.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/sample2.com.conf
Since it’s a test on a local machine I modified my hosts file in order to test the site out:
# vi /etc/hosts
10.0.0.15 sample.com 10.0.0.15 sample2.com
After this restart apache:
# systemctl restart httpd.service
Of course it failed. I added the firewall rules.
# firewall-cmd --add-service=http # firewall-cmd --state # firewall-cmd --list-all # firewall-cmd --list-interfaces # firewall-cmd --get-service # firewall-cmd --query-service service_name # firewall-cmd --add-port=8080/tcp # systemctl restart firewalld
Still errored out ran apache config.
# apachectl configtest
There was a problem with copying the sample2.com.conf file, I typoed it. Changed the name, still failed.
Added exception to selinux:
# chcon --reference /var/log/httpd/error_log /var/www/sample.com/error.log # chcon --reference /var/log/httpd/error_log /var/www/sample2.com/error.log # chcon --reference /var/log/httpd/access_log /var/www/sample.com/request.log # chcon --reference /var/log/httpd/access_log /var/www/sample2.com/request.log
Once again restart httpd.service
# systemctl restart httpd.service
This time it loaded up without any errors. I opened up Firefox and went to sample.com and voila it worked.
Always and I mean always triple-check selinux!
John Learns Linux...again 