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Apache is a popular web server application you can install on the Raspberry Pi to allow it to serve web pages.

Install Apache

  1. Follow the commands

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    sudo apt update 
  2. Install the apache2 package with this command

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    sudo apt install apache2 -y
  3. Test the Web Server

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    #By default, Apache puts a test HTML file in the web folder
    
    Type http://localhost/ on your browser or type the Pi IP addresss itself
     http://192.168.1.10 (whatever the Pi's IP address is) in the browser
  4. Browse to the default web page either on the Pi or from another computer on the network and you should see the following

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    This means you have Apache working!

  5. Once you have done that, let's go to the root folder

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    # /var/www/html -> web root 
    #here we will see the index.html that is being displaced on our browser 
    #we need to give read, write and executable permissions to this root folder to 
    perform further steps
    
    sudo chmod  a+rwx /var/www/html

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