Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual page 143

11.2.4 Setting Up an HTTP Installation
Source Manually
Creating an HTTP installation source is very similar to creating an NFS installation
source. HTTP installation sources can be announced over the network using OpenSLP
as well.
1 Create a directory holding the installation sources as described in
"Setting Up an NFS Installation Source Manually"
2 Configure the HTTP server to distribute the contents of your installation directory:
2a Install the Web server Apache.
2b Enter the root directory of the HTTP server (/srv/www/htdocs) and
create a subdirectory that will hold the installation sources:
mkdir instsource
Replace instsource with the product name.
2c Create a symbolic link from the location of the installation sources to the
root directory of the Web server (/srv/www/htdocs):
ln -s /path_instsource /srv/www/htdocs/instsource
2d Modify the configuration file of the HTTP server (/etc/apache2/
default-server.conf) to make it follow symbolic links. Replace the
following line:
Options None
with
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
2e Reload the HTTP server configuration using rcapache2 reload.
3 Announce the installation source via OpenSLP, if this is supported by your net-
work setup:
Section 11.2.2,
(page 128).
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