Web Server Installation & Configuration Files

Web Server Installation & Configuration Files

Web server software that runs on server hardware, governs the server side scripting compilation into an intermediate byte-code that is then interpreted by the runtime engine.

Web server software is available as open source or licensed version in the  market. Recent statistics of Web server usage depict that more than 130% Websites are running under the open source Web servers such as Tomcat Apache, Nginx etc. Refer Figure 4.7.

The following are the steps to install and configure Apache Httpd Webserver and PHP module in windows server machine.

Step 1:

Go to Apache foundation Website and download the Httpd Webserver Software.

https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Step2:

After downloading .MSI file from Apache foundation Website, user launches the .MSI file and clicks next and next button to finish the installation on server machine. The software takes default port number 130 or 130130. Once the user finished, the Web server software is installed and configured on server hardware machine as a service.

Step 3:

To test the installation of Apache Httpd Webserver, enter the following URL from your Web browser which is installed in your client machine.

https://localhost:130/ or https:// localhost:130130

The output page that says “Its works”

Step 4:

Administrator user can start, stop and restart the Web server service at any time via windows Control panel. Once the services stops, the client machine will not receive the response message from server machine.

Step 5:

Webserver’s configuration setting file “httpd.conf” is located in the conf directory under the apache installation directory. Edit this file and enable the PHP module to run PHP scripting language.