[wplug] Finding the web server (was: installfest)

[John]

I would say it has something to do that it changed on apache's website as
well.

- John

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Bob
Schmertz
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:47 PM
To: John
Cc: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] Finding the web server (was: installfest)


On Wed, 7 May 2003, John wrote:

>Actually,
>
>No, she wants httpd, not apache, since in 8.0 they changed the package 
>name to httpd.
>

Stupid, I had a Red Hat 8 box right in front of me, but I checked thru an
ssh session into an older version.

>[root at gateway root]# rpm -qa | grep http redhat-config-httpd-1.0.1-13
>libghttp-1.0.9-5
>httpd-2.0.40-8
>httpd-manual-2.0.40-8

Ugh, why'd they go and do that?  Sounds like the one-size-fits-all 
mentality has even taken hold w.r.t. package names.  Not to mention the 
inconsistency from version to version.

BTW, anyone here running a web server on Linux *other* than Apache?

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of 
>Bob Schmertz
>Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:25 PM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: RE: [wplug] installfest
>
>
>On Wed, 7 May 2003, John wrote:
>
>>Amy,
>>
>>More than likely I'll show up at the installfest and can help you if
>>you want.  I can probably work it out for you right now as well though.  
>>Run this command rpm -qa | grep httpd and see if anything comes back.
>
>What you want is
>
>	rpm -qa | grep apache
>
>... the Apache Web server comes in a package called apache.
>
>The rpm command is Red Hat's comprehensive package management tool,
>which, among other things, can tell you what is installed (it also 
>installs, updates, and "erases" packages, and does still more things; 
>man rpm for the gory details).
>
>>
>>Things to check to see if it was installed:
>>
>>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
>>/var/www/html
>>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
>This will also work, of course...
>
>

-- 
Cheers,
Bob Schmertz

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