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Install Apache on Rocky Linux

Category: VPS Setup

Set up Apache—a web server—on a Rocky Linux VPS—install with

dnf install httpd -y

start with

systemctl start httpd

and enable with

systemctl enable httpd

Open ports with

firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent && firewall-cmd --reload

test with

curl http://localhost

—expect Apache’s test page Configure a site in /etc/httpd/conf d/example com conf with

\n ServerName example.com\n DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com\n

restart with

systemctl restart httpd

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