“Configuring an Apache HTTP Server with a Red Hat distro would
have been a painful task several releases ago. But with the release
of Red Hat 8, getting Apache to play nice is a piece of cake.“The Apache HTTP Server has been graciously updated to version
2.0, and the package has been renamed httpd. You can use the HTTP
Configuration Tool to simplify setup. If you’ve used the tool in
earlier versions of Red Hat Linux, you should feel right at home in
using the latest version. Your Red Hat manuals can fill you in on
the details of migrating from earlier versions.“Previously, you had to contend with the srm.conf and the
access.conf configuration files, but now you have to work only with
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to set up and maintain your system. Just
ignore srm.conf and access.conf and leave them empty unless you
have some particular reason for using them…”
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