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14.2.4 Setting Up an HTTP Installation
Source Manually
Creating an HTTP installation source is very similar to creating an NFS installation
source. HTTP installation sources can be announced over the network using OpenSLP
as well.
1 Create a directory holding the installation sources as described in Section 14.2.2,
“Setting Up an NFS Installation Source Manually” (page 200).
2 Configure the HTTP server to distribute the contents of your installation directory:
2a Install the Web server Apache as described in Section “Installation” (Chap-
ter 27, The Apache HTTP Server, ↑Administration Guide).
2b
Enter the root directory of the HTTP server (
/srv/www/htdocs
) and
create a subdirectory that will hold the installation sources:
mkdir instsource
Replace
instsource
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_instsource /srv/www/htdocs/ instsource
2d
Modify the configuration file 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
2e
Reload the HTTP server configuration using
rcapache2 reload
.
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