Installing Apache & MySQL under my home direcctory

[Neeraj_7]

Can i install Apache webserver & MySQL database server under my home directory on Red Hat linux machine. The server already has apache running under root on default port. I want to install it under some other port since i do not have root access and i have to run some CGI scripts.
can someone of u outline the steps involved and also list down the problems if any.
most importantly has anyone of u tried this thing.

[Fred Ruffet]

You can achieve this, not using RPM. Use tarballs you can find on their sites and uncompress to your home.

You won't be able to use a port under 1024 if you're not root. Be carrefull not to use an already used port. Also, be sure there's no FW blocking the port you want.

Regards,

Fred

[Neeraj_7]

i installed apache 1.3 version in my home directory .i installed it under port 8888. everything seems to be working fine. the document root is also set to $HOME_DIR/apache/htdocs. but if i access the page from outside using http://servername:8888 , it gives a Page not found, Cannot find server or DNS Error.

I checked the httpd processes also, they are also running fine.

Can anyone of you point out the problem which is occuring.

[Vid Luther]

the error you're getting is an IE specific error, and since IE gives the same error for everything, try adding a / after the :8888

also, test locally with links or lynx to make sure it's running fine.

[Neeraj_7]

i have tried added a / after 8888 as pointed by you. also i have tested locally with wget , its giving the correct page.

[Steven E. Protter]

If your goal is to install the binaries under /home you have to do a special install and probably need to compile the application.

If you want to run websites under the /home directory thats a very simple thing to do.

Here is some code from my httpd.conf file.

Here is my documentroot directive:

DocumentRoot "/home/webusers/investmenttool/htdocs"




ServerAdmin sprotter@investmenttool.com
DocumentRoot /web/chicago50thward/htdocs
ServerName chicago50thward.org.com:80
ServerAlias www.chicago50thward.org
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/web/chicag50thward/cgi-bin/"
ErrorLog logs/chicago50thward.org.error_log
CustomLog logs/chicago50thward.org.access_log common



Notice the location. Change web to /home/web or /home/www or anything else you want.

There we go.

SEP

[Neeraj_7]

you mean to say that i have to set virtual host.
as said by you i have already installed it under my home directory /home/users/nkumar/apache. I configured it using ./configure --prefix=/home/users/nkumar/apache.

after installation i have changed the port to 8888 and user & group to my user & group in httpd.conf file since there is another apache server running under default port i.e. 80. i have checked the processes , they r running fine.

can you tell me any other thing i have to do.

[Johannes Krackowizer_1]

hi neeraj kumar,

perhaps your dns is broken. try to type http://:8888/ for example:

http://192.168.100.200:8888/

best regards,

johannes

[Neeraj_7]

hi

i have alreday tried http://ipaddress:8888 also , that also gives the same page not found error.

DNS is okay, i have checked with nslookup.

[Vid Luther]

if it's working locally, but not when you try from a different machine.. this is a dns issue. When you ping the domain you want to get to from your test machine, do you get the same ip as the box ? Are you sure there are no port fowarding rules etc ? What happens when you use firefox or opera ?

[Neeraj_7]

hi

yes i have verified that also. when i ping the machine it gives the same ip address as that of machine.i guess DNS is okay.

[Vid Luther]

when you telnet to port 8888 what do you get ?
also check to see port 8888 is allowing inbound connections from outside on the server itself.

[Neeraj_7]

yes , i have checked using netstat that the port 8888 is open and accepting inbound connections.

[Fred Ruffet]

this may not be a DNS problem if you connect to http://IP:8888/

Could you post your http.conf file here ?

Regards,

Fred

[Neeraj_7]

Hi Fred,

i m enclosing my httpd.conf over here. Plz look over & tell me if there is some problem.

[Vid Luther]

this looks like a generic httpd.conf it should be working.. but just for fun, uncomment the Listen line where it has ipaddress:port

and make it the ipaddress:8888 of the box you want it to be..or just say Listen 8888

I've always used that to move my servers, never the Port feature..

[Neeraj_7]

Hi Vid,

U r right, for fun i tried uncommenting that listen line also. That also didn't work. But if though the line is commented, i have checked using netstat that the port 8888 is open for inbound connections because in httpd.conf file , it has been specified as 8888 under port.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Just found a syntax error in my config, the hard way at a private customer site.

Ooops!

ServerName chicago50thward.org.com:80

should read

ServerName chicago50thward.org:80

Smiles.

Happens to saladbrains too.

SEP

[Neeraj_7]

Hello Steven

I am ataching my httpd.conf file over here. Can you plz have a look at it and suggest me if there is any problem. I have tried setting up Virtual host also as seen in file ,(the lines are currently commented), but that also didn't worked.