hello,
i just downloaded and installed apache 2, can someone tell me how to use it to set up a web server in step by step. Thanks.-Greg

with apache 1

#> httpd

starts the web server. The 'files' are located in

/var/www/htdocs/

what i did is erase everything in that directory, and then i put in my own 'index.html' and such is my 'website'

http://67.171.188.37/

Thanks,
So, which ip address should i tell people to use when accessing my machine? Thanks. -Greg

hey I tried #httpd and it said command not found, but if this helps. after install I typed locate httpd and this is what I found. Maybe this will help you help me.
Thanks again!-Greg

/usr/share/man/man8/httpd.8.bz2
/usr/share/doc/qt-3.2.3/doc/html/httpd-example.html
/usr/share/doc/apache2-manual-2.0.48/programs/httpd.xml.meta
/usr/share/doc/apache2-manual-2.0.48/programs/httpd.html
/usr/share/doc/apache2-manual-2.0.48/programs/httpd.xml
/usr/share/ADVX/advx-migrate-httpd-perl.conf
/usr/share/ADVX/compat/httpd-perl.conf
/usr/share/ADVX/compat/httpd.conf
/usr/share/ADVX/advx-migrate-commonhttpd.conf
/usr/share/ADVX/advx-migrate-httpd.conf
/usr/lib/apache2/httpd.exp
/var/log/httpd
/var/lock/subsys/httpd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K08httpd
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K08httpd
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K08httpd
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S92httpd
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S92httpd
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S92httpd
/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K08httpd
/etc/httpd
/etc/httpd/2.0
/etc/httpd/2.0/extramodules
/etc/httpd/2.0/conf
/etc/httpd/2.0/logs
/etc/httpd/2.0/lib
/etc/httpd/2.0/modules
/etc/httpd/conf
/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/VirtualHomePages.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/DynamicVhosts.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/apache-mime.types
/etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd2-perl.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/magic
/etc/httpd/conf/magic.default
/etc/httpd/conf.d
/etc/httpd/conf.d/56_mod_disk_cache.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/55_mod_cache.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/30_mod_proxy.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/40_mod_ssl.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/00_manual.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/41_mod_ssl.default-vhost.conf
/etc/httpd/logs

how about

cd /etc/ && ./httpd start

not an apache expert but maybe this will worl?

What distro are you using?

my httpd is in /var/lib/apache/sbin

Slackware 10

I think you can help yourself, Greg:

man httpd;man httpd.conf

Then go here http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
And learn how to ask questions

/etc/init.d/httpd start

Thanks for all the help. your right DertyolBA$HTARD, i should have spent some time on the google and whatnot searching for help. Thanks for pointing that out. Good site for question asking tips. -Greg

No problem, have you resolved your issue or have you been able to formulate a question?

Dirt ol bashtard...no I haven't worked it out yet. I am on a remote computer as we speak so when I get home I will work on it. Thanks. -Greg

Your ip address needs to be routable. If you are behind a nat router that's connected to the internet you need for it to forward ports 80 and 443 to your machine. If you have the address supplied by your isp you will use that. If your machine has this address you can get it from ifconfig. If the router has the ip address you can get it from the router.

[david@RedHatLinux david]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:192.168.1.241 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:52135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43310 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:37145630 (35.4 Mb) TX bytes:6118881 (5.8 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4141069 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4141069 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:269560724 (257.0 Mb) TX bytes:269560724 (257.0 Mb)

lo:2 Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.2 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:535 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:32100 (31.3 Kb)


For testing you can use this address on the httpd server...

127.0.0.1

So what's my ip? the inet address, the broadcast, or the mask? I use the eth0 as far as i know. -Greg

inet addr = ip addr

lo = loopback

eth0 is the first nic on your box.

Okay,
So istarted the httpd as far as I know. My ip address is 64.4.118.166
So what now? I created a symbolic link from my /home/greg/ directory to /var/www/catalog so I could access my files.
So what am I supposed to type in to find it on the web and how come I can't get it typing the ip address? -Greg
What' the deal with the ports? I can't figure it out,

Ports provide a way for one host to hold many sessions on the same box, apache should be listening on port 80 for requests.

As far as connecting to your IP do you have DSL or Cable, and is the computer behind a router on your network?