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How to install Apache server on OpenSUSE

How to install Apache server on OpenSUSE

How to install Apache server on OpenSUSE

In this article, you will learn how to install Apache server on OpenSUSE server. Apache is a well-known HTTP Server that is free, open source, and runs on Unix-like operating systems like Linux and Windows OS. Since it came out 20 years ago, it has been the most popular web server. Many sites on the Internet use it to run. It is easy to install and set up so that a Linux or Windows server can host one or more websites.

In this article, we'll show you how to use the command line to install, set up, and manage Apache HTTP web server on OpenSUSE server.

Prerequisites​

  • Internet accessible on server

  • Super user or any normal user with SUDO privileges

Install Apache Web Server

Step 1: Check your system release.

cat /etc/os-release

OpenSUSE 15.0

Step 2: Now, update the system software packages to the latest version.

zypper update -y

Step 3: Next, do the following with the zypper package manager to install Apache HTTP server from the default software repositories.

zypper install apache2 -y

Install apache on Opensuse server

Install apache on Opensuse server

Start Apache Server on OpenSUSE​

Step 4: After installing Apache web server, you can start it for the first time and set it to start automatically when the system starts up.

systemctl enable --now apache2

Step 5: You can confirm the status of Apache server by using following command

systemctl status apache2

Start and enable the Apache2 services

Start and enable the Apache2 services

Configure firewalld to Allow Apache Traffic​

Step 6: The firewall that comes with CentOS 7 is set up to block Apache traffic by default. To let web traffic through on Apache, change the system firewall rules to allow HTTP and HTTPS packets to come in.

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service http
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service https
firewall-cmd --reload

add http port in firewalld

Add http port in firewalld

Test Apache HTTP Server on CentOS 7​

Step 7: Now, edit or create you index page to test your installation.

echo "<h1> Greetings from Microhost Cloud </h1> >> /srv/www/htdocs/index.html

If you now go to the following URL, a default Apache page will be shown.

http://server_ip

Successfully installed apache2 on OpenSUSE

Successfully installed apache2 on OpenSUSE

And this is how you have learnt how to install Apache server on OpenSUSE