Objective
The objective is to configure network Redhat package repository accessible via HTTP protocol. This guide uses Apache webserver as a means to provide HTTP access to the local package repository.
Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo)
- Software: – Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
Requirements
Privileged access to your RHEL server system will be required.
Difficulty
EASY
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudo
command - $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Instructions
Install Apache
First, step is to install and start httpd
daemon.
# yum install httpd
Enable httpd
daemon to start after reboot:
# systemctl enable httpd Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vsftpd.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service.
Disable the default Apache welcome page configuration on Redhat Linux server:
# mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.backup
Start httpd
daemon:
# systemctl start httpd
httpd
daemon should now be running:
# systemctl status httpd ● httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-04-11 06:28:57 AEST; 20s ago Docs: man:httpd(8) man:apachectl(8) Main PID: 12283 (httpd) Status: "Total requests: 0; Current requests/sec: 0; Current traffic: 0 B/sec" CGroup: /system.slice/httpd.service ├─12283 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ├─12289 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ├─12290 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ├─12291 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ├─12292 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND └─12293 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
Configure Firewall
If you have firewall enabled, add a new rule to allow inbound firewall connections to FTP service:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http # firewall-cmd --reload
Include Packages
What remains is to copy Redhat package repository from ISO image or DVD drive to /var/www/http/
directory. Mount your CDROM:
# mount /dev/cdrom /media
or RHEL iso image:
# mount -ro loop rhel-server-7.3-x86_64-dvd.iso /media
and copy all source files using cp
:
# cp -a /media/* /var/www/http/
If SELinux is enabled on your system set appropriate SELinux context recursively for entire directory:
# chcon -R -t public_content_t /var/www/http/
Your FTP server should now be accessible from any remote system via http://SERVER-IP/