Help with Apache server. Adding web pages!

bborisov83 · 10-14-2010, 10:35 PM

Hi i don't know much about Apache or Linux. i rented a server to run CS 1.6 game servers. I had someone install Apache and configure my server to be able to use control panel for my game servers( i am running 4 gservers and have 5 ips = 1 ip is free). When i type my primary ip in the web browser it displays the Apache test page. My question is can i add pages to the Apache without messing up anything with the control panel or my game servers. I am familiar with html. My primary ip is used for 1 of th egame servers but i can change that if necessary. And if possible to add pages how to add a site name, sth like www.myclan.com instead of entering the primary ip to display the content. Any advice? Thanks!

morphix · 10-14-2010, 10:52 PM

First off, to be able to use a domain to access your website/webserver you will need to register a domain and name servers to host the DNS records.

You can then setup DNS records to point to your IP addresses for the web server.

You would then need to setup Apache to use VirtualHosts for each IP, or setup VirtualHosts using 1 IP address with different hostname.

Eg.
www.domain.com - Could point to the main website
game1.domain.com - Could point to game 1 control panel
game2.domain.com - Could point to game 2 control panel

All of these could be running from the 1 IP address, but have 3 different VirtualHosts setup in Apache to point each name to a different root directory.

It depends on how you want to set it all up.

I suggest you take a look at: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/vhosts/

joec@home · 10-14-2010, 10:57 PM

As you described as being new to administration, the shirt answer would be that if you find where the web root is, and only need one single website then you only need to publish the web pages and set the file permissions. If you do not already know where the web pages are on the server then you would search the httpd.conf for the location. The path /var/www/html/ is the most common.

Code:

grep DocumentRoot /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf |grep -v "#"

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

Then just use "ls -la" to identify the correct file ownership. Once you upload the pages then use chmod to change the correct ownership. For example if the owner is "nobody"

Code:

chmod nobody:nobody /var/www/html/filename

bborisov83 · 10-14-2010, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joec@home

As you described as being new to administration, the shirt answer would be that if you find where the web root is, and only need one single website then you only need to publish the web pages and set the file permissions. If you do not already know where the web pages are on the server then you would search the httpd.conf for the location. The path /var/www/html/ is the most common.

Code:

grep DocumentRoot /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf |grep -v "#"

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

Then just use "ls -la" to identify the correct file ownership. Once you upload the pages then use chmod to change the correct ownership. For example if the owner is "nobody"

Code:

chmod nobody:nobody /var/www/html/filename

Yes i need only 1 website but will this iterfire anyhow with the game panel and server i installed associated with that ip?
In var/www/html i have GameControlPanel and phpMyAdmin

morphix · 10-15-2010, 07:43 AM

No, it won't interfere as long as its configured properly.