Greetings,

       Hello everyone, I have just installed the RH Lnx 9. Could anyone please give me a hand and tell me the follows:

1. Where to set up default web page for the apache and where the page lies. I have searched through /var/www/html but found nothing for the default page but it shows when I start the apache for localhost.

2. How can I enable port 80 for http transactions (besides local host request)

3. Why web browsing is enabled even though I did not enable port 80 for localhost



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Newbie

/etc/httpd/

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Thanks !


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Newbie

If you have apache 2 installed this advice won't help much (sorry)

1. you need to find your apache config file. I'm a debain user so mine lives at /etc/apache/httpd.conf open that file with your text editor and search for a line called DocumentRoot - that'll be your default directory. In there, change the index.html file to what you want as your default (home) page.

2. Look through the config for the BindAddress. Change 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) to *

3. Browsing? Or Serving? I'm assuming the latter. It will be because apache is set to start when your machine boots. To change this from the commandline (I'm sure redhat has a nice GUI for this, google may help on this):

- become root by typing 'su' and giving your root password
- Find your runlevel (by typing runlevel at the shell prompt). It's most likely to be 5, from what I remember of redhat.
- There should be a directory called /etc/rc5.d (where your runlevel is 5, subsititute it for 4 if that's your runlevel).
- cd into that directory (cd /etc/rc5.d ) and find the symlink that starts apache (apache may be called apache or httpd, you can find them by using 'ls -l | grep httpd' or 'ls -l | grep apache').
- Stop apache by typing '/etc/rc5.d/Sxxhttpd stop' (where xx is one or two digits).
- Move the symlink to your home directory by typing 'mv Sxxhttpd ~' (where xx is one or two digits).

This will disable apache you can re-enable it by moving that file back into the /etc/rc5.d directory and typing /etc/rc5.d/Sxxhttpd

HTH
Charlie



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Many thanks Charlie! I will try it on my machine. Thanks very much for all.



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Newbie

Greetings,

    Hi all! I have checked with my httpd config file and found the currently enabled port is 80 only but found no preceding binding address like localhost or others.

    If I want to enable internet browsing but keeping the risk of being attacked to the lowerst, how should I make changes to the file? Could somebody throw me some lights ?


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Newbie