The are some items you need to change in the default configuration to allow other parts of this documentation to work witouth to many problems and to keep your server a bit more secure.

You need to change the configuration file of Apache. Please edit the file ‘httpd.conf‘ in the directory ‘/etc/httpd/‘. Find the following line:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

and change it into:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var

This will allow you to have php based index pages to appear without any problems. Next change the following lines:

User nobody
Group #-1

and change them into:

User www
Group www

This will run the Apache process (httpd) as a normal user on your system, the www or _www user hasn’t got many rights but enough to run a web-server. This makes the system more secure.

The next change is to allow the use of ‘.htaccess‘ files in your directories and virtual sites. Find the lines:

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

Edit the line below from:

AllowOverride None

and change it into:

AllowOverride All

Next step: Configuring virtual hosts in Apache