Configuring Apache2 web server

Now that we have our configuration plan in place, let us get started with Apache2 configuration. We will edit the OPAC and staff client virtual hosts in Koha's Apache2 configuration file. We will also configure Apache2 to listen on the staff client port—8080 and we will enable its Rewrite module. To make all this work we will point Apache2 to Koha's Apache2 configuration file using a symbolic link.

Creating a symbolic link to koha-httpd.conf

  1. First we create a symbolic link in Apache2's virtual host's folder pointing to Koha's Apache2 file. A symbolic link is just a pointer to the actual Koha file.
  2. We can copy the koha-httpd.conf file into the virtual host's folder, but it is better to create a symbolic link as this ...

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