There may come a time when you will want to run your own web server. In my career as a software engineer I have been often asked to run the department lab. The easiest way to keep my users informed as to what is going on is to put the notes and files on my own local website that I control. This may sound hard but it really isn't.
This assumes you have a Linux system available to try this out on. If not, you can still get a lot out of this section. This also assumes that httpd is not already installed. These steps were performed on my laptop running Fedora 18.
The following are the steps to install your own Apache httpd server on Fedora:
First install httpd:
yum install httpd
Now change to the configuration directory:
cd /etc/httpd/conf
Make a backup copy of the file:
cp httpd.conf /tmp/httpd.conf.orig
. You may want to choose a more suitable backup directory.Edit the file with a text editor:
vi httpd.conf
This file contains almost...