Creating a Static Website and Getting Working Directory Path
A Static website is a simple content website that runs without a server, just processing the contents added on the website, generally created using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
For quickly deploying we will just add a simple index.html HTML file and configure it in the virtual host configuration.
We will change the default index.html page of the apache webserver to add
Open the terminal change directory to /var/www/html/
remove the index.html and create a new index.html file.
Remove the existing index.html
$ cd /var/www/html
$ rm -r index.html
Create a new index.html and edit it
$ nano index.html
Or
$ touch index.html
Start VIM
$ vi index.html
Content of index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World!My First Site Deployed On Apache2.4 Webserver</p>
</body>
</html>
Configuring virtualhost
Open the directory /etc/apache2/
**Open the website configurations inside /etc/apache2/sites-available, if setup custom website - /sites-available/my-site.conf
Or open the default configuration under
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
and update the ServerName to whatever domain you want or for testing it locally change it to localhost
change the Root Directory of the contents
here our root directory where our contents are stored is /var/www/html/
Update it to
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
Final Configuration will look like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Testing and deploying a static website
After adding configurations to VirualHost, check the configurations for any warning or error using this command.
sudo apachectl configtest
Reload and Restart the server
# Reload
$ sudo service apache2 reload
# Restart
$ sudo service apache2 restart
**Test the live server with updated content using Curl in terminal or opening the localhost in your local system.
$ curl localhost:80
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