Installing if You're Not Running GNOME or KDE

The Red Hat Linux Apache/SSL Server packages are provided in RPM format, so you can install the packages using RPM.

Mounting the CD-ROM

To begin the installation process, you must first mount the CD-ROM. Place the Red Hat Linux Apache/SSL Server CD in your CD-ROM drive. As root, type the following command to mount the installation CD:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

On your system, you or the system administrator may allow users (in addition to root) to mount the CD-ROM drive. You'll need to be root in order to use RPM to install the packages, in any case.

The next step is to cd to the directory on the CD that contains the RPMs. Once you're there, use RPM commands to install the packages you want. Complete instructions on how to use RPM are included in the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide and a condensed version of the same instructions is included in the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide.

To install the secureweb package, become root (if you aren't already) and type in the following command:

# rpm -Uvh secureweb-3.0-1.i386.rpm
secureweb                  ############################
#

The secureweb package is installed. You'll need to repeat the previous command with each package you want to install. If you want to install all of the packages, however, you can use the same command, like this:

# rpm -Uvh *.rpm

After the previous command, you should see RPM name each package and show a line of hash marks for each package in the directory.

Please Note: RPM is a powerful and capable package management system. Please check the complete instructions on using RPM included in the Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide, or the shorter RPM "how-to" included in the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide, if you have any questions.

Once you've finished installing packages, the next step is to create your key and obtain a certificate. Your Red Hat Linux Apache/SSL Server needs these files in order to run securely. Please continue to Chapter 3 to create your key and certificate.