Chapter 2. Configuring the Apache2 Web Server

In this chapter, our goal will be to configure Apache2. Apache2 is Koha's web server—it serves Koha pages to users when they access the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) or the staff client. At the end of the chapter we will be able to launch Koha's OPAC and the staff client interfaces using a web browser. However, the interfaces won't work until we execute Koha's web installer, a topic for Chapter 4.

We cover this chapter in three stages—first an orientation, next the preparatory steps, and finally a demonstration of the configuration. Again, we demonstrate the steps on two Linux distributions—Debian and openSuSE.

Understanding Apache2 configuration

In this section we try and understand what Apache2 ...

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