Configuring HTTPD Server and setting up Python Interpreter and running Python Code on Docker Container

Let’s understand few concepts related to this task

Why we use Docker?

Docker is a container management service. The whole idea of Docker is for developers to easily develop applications, ship them into containers which can then be deployed anywhere within few seconds.

• This technology was created by Solomon Hykes,March 2013.
• You can deploy Docker containers anywhere, on any physical and virtual machines and even on the cloud.

Since Docker containers are pretty lightweight, they are very easily scalable.

What is the use of Apache server? How it works?

• The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
• The Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”) was launched in 1995 and it has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
• While there’s a lot of complexity underpinning how a web server functions, the basic job of all web servers is to accept requests from clients (e.g. a visitor’s web browser) and then send the response to that request (e.g. the components of the page that a visitor wants to see).
• Virtual hosting is one such feature that allows a single Apache Web Server to serve a number of different websites.

Let’s move towards our practical part:

Step 1: Start and run docker container

Command - docker run -it --name containername imagename

Step 2: Install httpd on container

Command- yum install httpd -y

Step 3: Install net-tools

Command- yum install net-tools -y

Step 4: Start httpd server

Command- /usr/sbin/httpd or httpd

Step 5: Check in which port httpd is running

Command- netstat -tnlp

Step 6: Create one html file.

Step 7: Check the ip of container

Step 8: Check whether the webpage is configured or not.

URL- https://C_IP/html_file_name

Hence, our httpd server is configured.

Now, Let's set up python interpreter on Docker

Step 1: Install python

Command- yum install python3 -y

Step 2: Type Command python3 for live interpreter.

Step 3: Creating and running python file

Command for running - python3 filename

Hence, Python Interpreter has also been set on docker.

Thanks for reading!!