Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5 Administration Unleashed

Chapter 15. Creating a Web Server with the Apache HTTP Server

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Apache HTTP Server and SELinux
• Allowing Connections
• Configuring the Server
• Logging Connections
• Starting and Stopping the Server

When you view a web page over the Internet, the code to create that page must be retrieved from a server somewhere on the Internet. The server that sends your web browser the code to display a web page is called a web server. There are countless web servers all over the Internet serving countless websites to people all over the world.

A web server can also be set up on an internal network so that it is only accessible by the computers inside the private network. If this internal network is inside a company or corporation, it is often called ...