How to install Apache web server in Fedora 14? Can yum be used for installing?

[Tim]

Varuna Seneviratna wrote:

> I started the service But I had to log on as root.

Um, not really.  Well, that rather depends on what *you* mean by
"logging on."  

You only need to do "su -" (in the command line of your normal login) to
be allowed to start the webserver, then a "service httpd start" command,
and then you can go back to being yourself, once it's started.

  [tim at gonzales ~]$ su -
  Password: 
  [root at gonzales ~]# service httpd start
  Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
  [root at gonzales ~]# exit
  logout

If you start it up from one of the configuration GUIs, it'll ask you to
enter the root password, just to use that GUI.  Again, you only need to
be logged in as yourself.

If you plan to do a lot of web development work, you might configure the
service to it always starts itself each time you boot up.

> 1 How to Do web Development, I am not able to(not allowed) save any
> .html or any other file in the directory /var/www/html Do I have to
> logged in as root to Do web Development?

No, you don't.  However, you're going to have to change some things,
first.  

While still the root user, you change the ownership of /var/www/html to
yourself.  

While still the root user, you can reconfigure the webserver to use a
different directory, one that is owned by yourself (such as a
sub-directory placed inside /var/www/html.

> 2 Am I safe from outside intrusion when running the Web Server bound to port 80

No.  Whether you're safe, or not, depends on other factors.  Is there a
firewall on your ISP or your modem router, between the outside world and
your computer?  Are you running a firewall on your computer?  Those are
the things that will stop outsiders from reaching it.

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