Installing httpd

The best way to install it is to use your distributions package manager and then install

Redhat based distributions will use yum

Debian based will use aptitude

Slackware will use slapt

SUSE uses smart or zypper

if you use neither then you can download the source or the prepackaged binary rpm deb or tgz.

once the package installed you will want to edit the httpd.conf file to point to your websites location. the default is /var/www/html

then you will want to start the service.

Redhat

su to root

su -

then

chconfig httpd on

then

service httpd start

Debian

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

now to auto start it at boot

update-rc.d apache2 defaults

Slackware

vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd

then create your start up script httpd then make it executable

chmod 750 /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd

start httpd

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

now make it auto start on boot. then as long as your default run level is 3

ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/httpd

if you default run level is something other then 3 just change rc3.d to match your if it 5 then change rc3.d to rc5.d

SUSE

There should be a start up script in /etc/init.d/boot.local make a symbolic link to that in /etc/rc.d/boot.local if its not already there

ln -s /etc/init.d/boot.local/apachectl /etc/rc.d/boot.local/apachectl

Then start it by typing

/etc/init.d/boot.local/apachectl start