Now Virtual IP have been added, and it‘s port 80 have been released, so we can start to do some needed configure. 

 

Firstly, copy the httpd.conf file as httpd2.conf. For Apache based server, 1 Apache server instance need 1 httpd.conf file.

 

And what we need to be configured includes:

 

Now, if we start a new IHS instance with this configure file, then it will be a different instance.

Actually what we need to create is only:

 

DocumentRoot "C:/WEB_SITE/myaddress2.com"   and 

TransferLog "|bin/rotatelogs.exe C:/WEB_LOG/myaddress2.com/access.%Y%m%d.log 86400 +480"

 

And for testing purpose, we put an index.html file into the document root folder:

 

 

After that, we‘d better add the domain of the IP into the hosts file so that we can access our website via both IP and domain name, we can define any domain name for our IP because it‘s a Internal IP.

 

File location: Windows: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts       Linux: /etc/hosts

 

Go to the IHS home\bin folder, we will use the apache.exe to start the instance with the new httpd2.conf file.

 

Use this command to verify if the syntax of the config file is fine: apache.exe -t -f C:\IBM\HTTPServer\conf\httpd2.conf

 

 

In order to start the service, there are some difference between Linux and Windows:

 

This command will works: apache.exe -k start -f C:\IBM\HTTPServer\conf\httpd2.conf

 

We need to add the new service into the Windows service manager, and then start it via the Windows service UI:

 

Firstly, add the service:

C:\IBM\HTTPServer\bin>apache.exe -k install -n "ihs-myaddress2.com" -f C:\IBM\HTTPServer\conf\httpd.conf

 

 

Succeed! Then open services.msc, can see it have been added successfully.

 

Right click, and click start.

 

OK, the service have been started.

 

How to test? 

 

Yeah, we are configuring a website infrastructure, of course the best way is test via browser. 

 

Our web page have been displayed successfully. And you can continue to put more web pages into the document root folder.

 

 

 

Now, start to write your own website via maybe html and JS, if want to release it to Internet, may need some port forward configure in your home router device, and that will be another toy what can be play with.

 

Enjoy it!