Configuring a Simple Web Server

• Creating a Web Server using default configuration.
• yum install -y httpd httpd-manual
• systemctl enable httpd
• systemctl start httpd
• firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http --add-service=https
• firewall-cmd --reload
• cd /var/www/html
• vim index.html
• Welcome to simple web server
• to test install elinks
• yum -y install elinks
• elinks http://localhost
• Creating a Web Server using  different DocumentRoot.
• yum install -y httpd httpd-manual
• systemctl enable httpd
• systemctl start httpd
• firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http --add-service=https
• firewall-cmd --reload
• mkdir /web
• vim /web/index.html
• Welcome to simple web server
• vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
• Change value of DocumentRoot.
• DocumentRoot "/web"
• Change value of Directory.
• <Directory "/web">
• Change the selinux security label of DocumentRoot /web.
• semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/web(/.*)?"
• restorecon -R -v /web

[root@server1 ~]# ls -Zd /web

drwxrwxr-x+ root root unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 /web

• restart httpd
• systemctl restart httpd
• test
• elinks http://localhost