The Web server starts immediately.
4
Save your changes with Finish.
The system is congured to automatically start Apache in runlevels 3 and 5 during
boot.
For more information about the runlevels in openSUSE and a description of the YaST
runlevel editor, refer to Section 17.2.3, “Conguring System Services (Runlevel) with
YaST” (page 244).
To manually start Apache using the shell, run rcapache2 start.
Procedure 30.3
Checking if Apache is Running
If you do not receive error messages when starting Apache, this usually indicates that
the Web server is running. To test this:
1
Start a browser and open http://localhost/.
If Apache is up and running, you get a test page stating “It works!”.
2
If you do not see this page, refer to Section 30.8, “Troubleshooting” (page 530).
Now that the Web server is running, you can add your own documents, adjust the con-
guration according to your needs, or add functionality by installing modules.
30.2 Conguring Apache
openSUSE offers two conguration options:
• Conguring Apache Manually (page 497)
• Conguring Apache with YaST (page 502)
Manual conguration offers a higher level of detail, but lacks the convenience of the
YaST GUI.
The Apache HTTP Server 493
