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Apache web server set up instructions

127.0.0.1 is also known as localhost in domain terms - use localhost all one word in your web browser to access your html Web pages stored in var/www/html.

127.0.0.1 is the loopback address this is your computer useful for testing Web servers for access. Test your computer as a Web server is working - your web pages in var/www/html will be displayed.

Nautilus is name for Gnome file manager in Fedora Linux - important to note from terminal screen do sudo nautilus to have admin priviledges useful to copy html Web page files to var/www/html folder or directory.

Save as txt or dot txt in Linux text editor or emacs for compatibility with Google Drive and enable easy reading in Microsoft OneDrive that is efficient.

Installation of Fedora Linux 37 just uses 5GB after install - this is efficient good use of computing resources and Fedora great on low end hardware.

The terminal in Linux is where users enter commands. Open terminal, do ls -l to view folders in your present working directory then Enter. You might see Documents folder so CD documents this chnanges your present working directory to documents.

Perform ls -l again to view contents or list of files and folders in documents folder. Folders known as directories in Linux.

Scribus powerful open source desktop publishing with PDF export on Fedora Linux.

Right click on text files saved with Gnu Emacs to make executable, basic command echo hello world; read dummy; You need read dummy to see your output on the screen keep display window open.

The UK government increased support for nuclear in the March budget 2023 and BBC News say the government want 25 percent of electricity to come from renewable sustainable nuclear energy by 2050.

Baker Street in London is home to Sherlock Holmes museum. A day at the races Ascot and the grand Cheltenham race course think Lestor Piggott and Willie Carson famous jockeys.

Thunderbird from Mozilla great email app on Fedora Linux connects to Gmail and Microsoft Outlook.

DMZ demilitarised zone is used in firewall terms to place Web servers outwith an internal private network. Dmz for internal private network security.

Active screens think snap window left and right fit multiple windows on screen with Fedora Linux.

The Linux file system is more complex than Windows but files linked to web servers are in var/www/html folder. Apache web server is most popular and used web server software on the Internet. Web pages you create go in var/www/html folder but you need to sudo nautilus at a command prompt to have admin priviledges to place your web pages in the /var/www/html folder for serving web pages to users across the Internet.

From Fedora Linux main screen, click Activities top left then show applications and then Terminal represented by small black screen icon. From Terminal or command prompt screen, type in yum install httpd.

yum install httpd sets up and installs the web server service from Apache.

Type in systemctl start httpd - this starts the web server service.

Type in systemctl enable httpd.service - this enables Apache Web server service to start on computer start up.

Open up port 80 or computer interface number 80 for web traffic for visits by real world users so firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent.

No-ip.com useful for dynamic DNS the domain name system think domain names for computers with IP addresses that change on you like every 24 hours.

Use sudo yum install httpd - sudo important to give superuser or admin priviledges known as elevating status in computer terminology.

Deleting windows partitions and clicking Reclaim space is what enables you to install Fedora Linux on a Windows PC and Fedora Media Writer can allow you to take a Fedora ISO image and put it on a bootable flash drive for setup and installation of Fedora on a laptop or computer.