Testing Apache Webserver running on a guest Fedora Linux OS
Thursday, 20 September 2007
TUTORIAL: Testing Apache Webserver running on a guest Fedora Linux OS

This tutorial shows the steps for testing if Apache is running.

 
STEPS
  1. Create a Fedora Linux virtual machine (guest) on Windows XP(host) with Vmware.
  2. Install Fedora Linux. This is now the guest OS.
  3. Start Linux, than log in as a regular user. Start a shell to input commands
  4. Change to root (su - root)
  5. Start Apache by typing at the command prompt: service httpd start. Test if service is running by typing: telnet localhost 80 (see image 1 below). GNOME or KSE  GUI tools can also be used to configure Apache.

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  6. Find the IP address of this server by typing: ifconfig (this is equivalent to typing at the commnad prompt in Windows: ipconfig  - see image 2 with the black background below) Note that this is a different IP address than that generated by Windows in the host machine.

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  7. By default Apache is set to listen to all available IP addresses (GNOME or KSE GUI tools can be used to verity this)
  8.  Start FTP service by typing in: /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
  9. Create an index.html test page and upload to /var/www/html (see image 3 below).

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  10. Open a brower on host Windows XP and type in the URL found in step 6. The test page should appear (see image 1)