Finding Apache

[blaxsmith]

All,

I have just started to learn PHP reading 'Beginning PHP4' and I am stuck on one thing. I am running Apache 1.3.20-16 on RH Linux 7.2.

There is a command to find where the location Apache stores its web site files. The command,

rpm -ql apache | grep /htdocs$

returns me to a command prompt, with no indication of where the files are stored. Using the command,

rpm -q apache

I know that Apache is installed on my system. Is there another command that I can type in to find the /htdocs folder, or are they stored somewhere else on my system? Or, is Apache not completely installed on my system?

Similarly, if I enter a command line entry to find the program 'apachectl',

rpm -ql apache | grep apachectl$

I also am not returned with a path to that program.

Using the command,

rpm -ql apache | grep /httpd.conf$

does return the path to where this file is stored.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



Some of these you have to set up yourself. The default content directory is defined by the DocumentRoot directive in the httpd.conf control file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf on redhat). The default for redhat is :



DocumentRoot "/var/

http://www/html"

I guess the problem you're having is with a book or other material that refers to certain default paths. Redhat packages apache in its own way and you may well find a few differences. For example, apachectl is a script used to stop / start the server, etc. Redhat does not include this because it has functionally similar sysv init scripts. For example :



/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status



With redhat apache the 'apache' rpm is a fairly complete server but you might want other add-on rpms like :



mod_perl

mod_php

mod_php3

apache_devel



If you don't like the way redhat have done it, you can always download the apache.org binaries and use those :

http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/linux/

. Or, better, download the source and compile / install yourself -->

http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/

.



Hope this helps