HOWTO: Install Apache

You must be logged in as root in order to install programs from the ports collection.

cd /usr/ports/apache13
make install && clean

Here is how to start and test the apache web server. Once you have determined that apache is up and running, you can replace the default content with your own web pages.

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start

Note: Apache will automatically start each time the system is rebooted.

You should now be able to connect to your apache web server with your browser on the local computer or a remote computer on the same network. If you have netscape, lynx or some other browser on the machine apache is installed on, you can test it with one of these urls.

http://localhost
http://127.0.0.1
http://{your ip address}

From a remote machine you could use:
http://{your apache hosts ip address}

Once you have used your web browser to test that the server is up and running, you should see apache's Congratulations splash screen displayed.

Once you've authored some html web content, you should place it in the /usr/local/www/data/ directory, restart apache and test it with your browser.

example:
cp /usr/home/jason/index.html /usr/local/www/data/
killall -hup httpd

You can also start and stop apache with the start and stop command from the rc.d script:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh stop
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start

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