Hello geeks, In this tutorial I'm guiding you how to host a simple website locally in Apache Web Server in Linux. So, let's get started.
Install Apache
First, let's install Apache from the apt repository in Linux. Enter the following command on your terminal to install the Apache web server:
apt install apache2
After successful installation, here are some commands that may come handy while running Apache web server.
To start Apache 2, run:
sudo service apache2 start
To restart Apache 2, run:
sudo service apache2 restart
To stop Apache 2, run:
sudo service apache2 stop
To gracefully reload Apache 2, run:
sudo service apache2 reload
After starting the Apache Web Server, you may go into any browser and type http://127.0.0.1/ on Address Bar.
The resulting web page looks like:
The web page rendered is the default web page provided by the Apache itself. Now, we'll learn to replace by our website.
Create Website
For maintaining the simplicity, I'm creating a simple web project darkweb with the following file structure.
darkweb/
├── css
│ └── style.css
└── index.html
1 directory, 2 files
Inside index.html :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Website on Dark Web</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is my first web site on Dark Web.</h1>
</body>
</html>
And inside css/style.css:
body{
margin: 0px;
color: red;
background-color: darkslateblue;
}
which results to form a webpage like :
Host Website on Apache Web Server
Going through the default configuration provided by the Apache, we're going to add website we just created to the Apache web server.
Assuming our web project name is darkweb, let's move the project to /var/www/html.
sudo mv darkweb/ /var/www/html
Now, we've hosted our website on Apache Web Server. To access the website from the Apache, first start the Apache Web Server:
sudo service apache2 start
And type http://127.0.0.1/darkweb/ on address bar on your browser. Now, you should see the website we just created on the browser. Here, my project name was darkweb, but the generalized URL for accessing your project is http://127.0.0.1/YOUR_PROJECT_NAME/.
After hosting on Apache, the website looks like:
I hope that now you're able to host website on Apache web server.
In next tutorial of this series, I'll be guiding you through how to install SSL certificate on Apache2 Ubuntu Server.
Till then, keep coding :)
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