5.1
Table Of Contents
- vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- Table of Contents
- 1. About vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- 2. Overview of vFabric Web Server
- 3. Installing vFabric Web Server
- Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers
- Available Distribution Packages
- RHEL: Install vFabric Web Server from the VMware RPM Repository
- Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP
- Windows: Install vFabric Web Server from a ZIP File
- Activate a local vFabric Web Server License
- Description of the vFabric Web Server Installation
- Upgrading vFabric Web Server
- 4. Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances
- 5. Configuring vFabric Web Server Instances
- 6. Security Information
- 7. Additional Documentation
Creating and Using vFabric Web
Server Instances
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Unix: Start and Stop vFabric Web Server Instances
You start, stop, or restart a vFabric Web Server instance on Unix with the httpdctl shell script in the bin directory of the
instance.
Warning: You always use the start script in the bin of the instance directory, such as /opt/vwmare/vfabric-web-
server/myserver/bin. Do not use the start script in the httpd-2.2/bin sub-directory of the main installation directory.
Prerequisites
• Complete the appropriate procedure in Create vFabric Web Server Instances.
Procedure
1. Log in to your Unix computer as the root user.
2. Start a terminal window and change to the bin sub-directory of your vFabric Web Server instance's root directory. For
example, if you created an instance called myserver that lives in the installation directory /opt/vmware/vfabric-
web-server:
prompt# cd /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server/myserver/bin
3. Start the instance using the ./httpdctl start command:
prompt# ./httpdctl start
You should see a message as follows:
Starting Apache:
Server started OK
4. To test that the vFabric Web Server instance actually started, navigate to the http://host:port URL in your browser,
where host refers to the host computer (you can use localhost if your browser is on the same computer) and port
refers to the HTTP listen port number you provided when you created the instance. The default value is 80
For example, if you are using the default ports on your local computer, you can use this URL:
http://localhost:80
If the instance started successfully, you should see the Welcome page.
5. To stop the instance immediately, even if there are current connections in use:
prompt# cd /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server/myserver/bin
prompt$ ./httpdctl stop
To stop the instance gracefully:
prompt$ ./httpdctl gracefulstop
6. To restart a currently running instance:
prompt$ ./httpdctl restart
What to do next
• Complete the procedure in Serve a Sample HTML File from your vFabric Web Server Instance.
• Configure your instance as described in Configuring vFabric Web Server.