Serve Webpages from User's Home Directory with Apache on CentOS 7 (SElinux Version))
This video demonstrates the configuration of Apache webserver on CentOS 7 for serving webpages from the users home directory. So that every users on your system can have his/her own website and it can be accessed from the browser as http://ip-addr/~username
This video also demonstrates the configuration of SElinux for Apache.
Tested on: CentOS 7
Apache Version: 2.4.6 (x86_64)
Steps and Commands:
1. install apache
sudo yum install httpd -y
2. enable userdir
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf
3. restart apache
sudo systemctl restart httpd
4. make $HOME executable
sudo chmod a+x $HOME
5. create public_html under home
mkdir $HOME/public_html
6. create a dummy html file
vim index.html
7. selinux
sudo chcon -Rt httpd_sys_content_t public_html
8. open port 80 on the firewall
sudo firewall-cmd –add-port=80/tcp –permanent
9. restart firewalld
sudo systemctl restart firewalld
10. find ip address of the server
ip addr show | grep inet
11. test on the browser via http://ip_addr/~username/
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