Creating an Apache web server

Now that you have a working Linux distribution on a server computer it's time to initialize a web server framework. The Apache 2 is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol web server program. It is highly optimizable and modular. This article will help you through the installation process of Apache 2.2 on Debian 7 and Apache 2.4 on Fedora 20. The default layout and command usage in those distributions are slightly different. In the first place I will show some general configuration options, then I'll continue with the distribution specific installation process. Note that some dissimilarities come from the different distributions, but some of them are simply because version version differences. You can check the main differences between Apache 2.2 and 2.4 here.

A map server partitioning scheme

When you have a server machine and plan to run a dedicated Linux server, you should make some partitioning considerations first. For a mapserver you won't have to make a very detailed partitioning scheme, but you may consider to build some partitions for the basic functions of your Linux server. If you have to deal with RAID disks or GPT partitioning then I assume you already know how to structure your server. The following thoughts will be about a normal sized mapserver.