From the course: Apache HTTP Server: Installation, Configuration, and Management

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Installing Apache HTTP Server

Installing Apache HTTP Server

- [Instructor] In this video, we will go through the steps to install and configure the Apache HTTP web server on our Linux VM. I know this is something you've been waiting for, so let's get started. The first step is to log in as root. So we will log in through root to a Linux machine from our PuTTY terminal. So let's go ahead and start our PuTTY terminal. And if you notice, we have previously saved our session as linuxweb01, select that, click on Load. Once you click on Load, you notice the host name and the IP address would automatically appear on the field right here. Now simply go ahead and click Open. All right, we have a login screen. Go ahead and enter root, followed by the root password. All right, we're logged in. Let's make this window a little bigger. Okay, so now, before we install Apache HTTP web server, we wanted to make sure our system is up to date. We previously updated our system, but again, depending when you are coming back to it, it is always a good idea to…

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