Operation Manual

TIP: Conguring an FTP Server with YaST
If you prefer using YaST over manually conguring the FTP installation server,
refer to Chapter 21, Setting up an FTP server with YaST (page 403) for more in-
formation on how to use the YaST FTP server module.
2.2.4 Setting Up an HTTP Repository
Manually
Creating an HTTP repository is very similar to creating an NFS repository. An HTTP
repository can be announced over the network using OpenSLP as well.
1
Create a directory holding the installation sources as described in Section 2.2.2,
“Setting Up an NFS Repository Manually” (page 48).
2
Congure the HTTP server to distribute the contents of your installation directory:
2a
Install the Web server Apache as described in Section 20.1.2, “Installa-
tion” (page 360).
2b
Enter the root directory of the HTTP server (/srv/www/htdocs) and
create the subdirectory that will hold the installation sources:
mkdir repository
Replace repository with the product name.
2c
Create a symbolic link from the location of the installation sources to the root
directory of the Web server (/srv/www/htdocs):
ln -s /path_to_repository /srv/www/htdocs/repository
2d
Modify the conguration le of the HTTP server (/etc/apache2/
default-server.conf) to make it follow symbolic links. Replace the
following line:
Options None
with
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
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