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</BODY>

</HTML>

3. Restart the Apache HTTP server for the changes to take effect.

4. Verify the custom external URL redirect message by opening a browser and entering the

following website:

http://<YOUR_WEB_SERVER_IP>/non-exist

The following message appears:

The page you request does not exist! External redirects example

Using Per-User Web Directories

Using the UserDir function, each user is allowed to have a personal website in their home directory

on servers that have multiple users. Visiting a URL with its name in the form

http://example.com/~username displays the contents of the home directory of the user.

The following is an example for configuring per-user web directories:

1. Add a user named tester to your server by entering the following commands:

# useradd —m tester

2. Create an HTML file named /home/tester/public_html/index.html that contains

the following lines:

<HTML>

<HEAD>

</HEAD>

This is personal homepage of user tester .

</BODY>

</HTML>

3. Verify that the per-user web directory configuration was successful by opening a browser

and entering the following website:

http://<YOUR_WEB_SERVER_IP>/~tester

The following message appears:

This is personal homepage of user tester.

Integrating LAMP Components

This section describes the commonly used configurations for the LAMP stack components. Before

you integrate Apache HTTP Server with PHP, Python, Perl and MySQL, verify that MySQL is

installed and started using the following procedure:

1. Verify that MySQL is installed by entering the following command:

# rpm -qa |grep -i mysql

2. Start the MySQL database and verify the daemon is started by entering the following

commands:

# /etc/init.d/mysql start

# ps –ef|grep mysqld

Integrating Apache HTTP Server with PHP and MySQL

Use the following procedure to configure PHP and MySQL:

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