Apache HTTP Server Installation

Install Apache:

yum install httpd

And additional modules:

yum install httpd mod_ssl mod_proxy_html
yum install mod_wsgi

Firewall configuration

Allow requests on port 80 through the firewall:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

Apache start and stop

To start and stop Apache, run:

systemctl start httpd
systemctl stop httpd

To automatically start Apache at boot, run:

systemctl enable httpd

Log Rotation

httpd log rotation should be already configured. Check it, and if it isn’t, then configure it:

Edit the configuration file for logrotate to rotate Apache log files /etc/logrotate.d/httpd as follows:

/var/log/httpd/*log {
    daily
    maxsize 100M
    rotate 14
    create 644 root root
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    compress
    delaycompress
    postrotate
        /bin/systemctl reload httpd.service > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
}

And add the following line to the crontab:

crontab -e

0 * * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/httpd