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Now you're ready to start adding pages to your WWW server. Just move
any HTML files, graphics, etc. you want to appear on your server into
the /home/httpd/html directory. You can create subdirectories in here
as well. Make sure that any files intended for public viewing are set
to be world readable:
chmod a+r (name-of-file)
The file named index.html will be loaded by default if no file name
is specified in the URL; that is,
http://yourhost.com/index.html
is the same as
http://yourhost.com/
So, you should name the main home page of your server as index.html.
You should be all set to go now; to start up the server, just type as root:
httpd
(The next time you boot your system, the server will start automatically.)
Try using a WWW browser to access your server. From X you could use:
arena http://localhost/
If you get your home page, you're all set! If not, you may get some errors. These are common:
index.html file, as indicated above.
chmod a+r /home/httpd/html/index.html
You now have a basic WWW server running. There are several books that can help you do more advanced things like use CGI to process forms, use imagemaps, etc. ``Managing Internet Information Services'' by Liu, Peek, Jones, Buus, and Nye (O'Reilly, 1994) has several chapters on WWW servers, and also covers FTP, Gopher, and other services you may wish to provide.
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