Operation Manual

The Web server starts immediately.

Save your changes with Finish.

The system is congured to automatically start Apache in runlevels 3 and 5 during

boot.

For more information about the runlevels in openSUSE and a description of the YaST

runlevel editor, refer to Section 17.2.3, “Conguring System Services (Runlevel) with

YaST” (page 244).

To manually start Apache using the shell, run rcapache2 start.

Procedure 30.3

Checking if Apache is Running

If you do not receive error messages when starting Apache, this usually indicates that

the Web server is running. To test this:

Start a browser and open http://localhost/.

If Apache is up and running, you get a test page stating “It works!”.

If you do not see this page, refer to Section 30.8, “Troubleshooting” (page 530).

Now that the Web server is running, you can add your own documents, adjust the con-

guration according to your needs, or add functionality by installing modules.

30.2 Conguring Apache

openSUSE offers two conguration options:

• Conguring Apache Manually (page 497)

• Conguring Apache with YaST (page 502)

Manual conguration offers a higher level of detail, but lacks the convenience of the

YaST GUI.

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