Installing And Configuring The Apache Http Server - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

Appendix A. Example of Setting Up Apache HTTP Server
1. On one cluster node, use the interactive parted utility to create a partition to use for the
document root directory. Note that it is possible to create multiple document root directories on
different disk partitions.
2. Use the mkfs command to create an ext3 file system on the partition you created in the previous
step. Specify the drive letter and the partition number. For example:
# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sde3
3. Mount the file system that contains the document root directory. For example:
# mount /dev/sde3 /var/www/html
Do not add this mount information to the /etc/fstab file because only the cluster software can
mount and unmount file systems used in a service.
4. Copy all the required files to the document root directory.
5. If you have CGI files or other files that must be in different directories or in separate partitions,
repeat these steps, as needed.
A.3. Installing and Configuring the Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server must be installed and configured on all nodes in the assigned failover
domain, if used, or in the cluster. The basic server configuration must be the same on all nodes on
which it runs for the service to fail over correctly. The following example shows a basic Apache HTTP
Server installation that includes no third-party modules or performance tuning.
On all node in the cluster (or nodes in the failover domain, if used), install the httpd RPM package.
For example:
rpm -Uvh httpd-<version>.<arch>.rpm
To configure the Apache HTTP Server as a cluster service, perform the following tasks:
1. Edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf configuration file and customize the file according to
your configuration. For example:
• Specify the directory that contains the HTML files. Also specify this mount point when adding the
service to the cluster configuration. It is only required to change this field if the mount point for
the web site's content differs from the default setting of /var/www/html/. For example:
DocumentRoot "/mnt/httpdservice/html"
• Specify a unique IP address to which the service will listen for requests. For example:
Listen 192.168.1.100:80
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