Configure yum server for Client machine (Part 3)

Configure yum server for Client machine:

If you want to provide client machine to download & install the packages via yum server, then you will have to enable following services below on your yum server. In this case I am describing both of them, but in real world you can configure both of them or one of them.

      * By Enabling HTTP Services 
       * By Enabling FTP Services

  

Enabling HTTP Services in Yum Server

Step-1: Installing http RPM package

[root@yumsrv ~]# yum install httpd* -y

Step-2:  Configuring the httpd.conf file.

Now go to the main configuration file for enabling http services

[root@yumsrv ~]# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Directives	Discription	Line Number	Orginal File Text	Modified File Text
Listen	Specify the Port Number where apache will listen on	134	80	210.207.201.254:80
ServerAdmin	e-mail address of the server administrator	251	root@localhost	root@210.207.201.254
ServerName	Put the host name(FQDN)of web server	265	www.example.com:80	210.207.201.254:80
DocumentRoot	Specify the html file location of the web server	281	“/var/www/html”	“/var/www/html”
NameVirtualHost	Set web Server IP which will contain the virtual host	972	*:80	210.207.201.254:80

** Also go to the end of the configuration file for configuring Virtual host

     ServerAdmin     root@210.207.210.254

     DocumentRoot    /var/www/html

     ServerName 210.207.201.254

Tips: To edit httpd.conf file set Line number & enter Follow the method.

Esc → set number → Enter → Esc → Shift+: → type line number which you want to edit → Enter → press I for insert mode → then edit → Save & Exit.

Step-3:  Editing hosts file

If DNS is not use for http services then you put the host name and IP address of yum server in to the /etc/hosts file in every client machine otherwise packages will be failed to download & install. The configuration file will look like below,

[root@yumsrv ~]# vi /etc/hosts

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs

# that require network functionality will fail.

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost

210.207.201.254 yumsrv     yumsrv

Step-4:  After configuring http service you have to restart httpd service

[root@yumsrv ~]# service iptables stop

[root@yumsrv ~]# chkconfig iptables off

[root@yumsrv ~]# service network restart

[root@yumsrv ~]# service httpd restart

[root@yumsrv ~]# chkconfig httpd on