Raspberry Pi Apache Web Server Installation

Introduction

This page describes how I setup the web server Apache, specifically Apache2, along with PHP and MariaDB.

Note I use MariaDB in preference to the original MySQL database.

hostname -I
sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc apache2-utils
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-pear -y
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client php-mysql
sudo service apache2 restart

Apache is run via the binary apache2
To start / stop Apache use:

/etc/init.d/apache2
or
apache2ctl

but not /usr/bin/apache2 directly as it will not work on Raspbian Linux as it is Debian based.

sudo apache2ctl stop   

sudo apache2ctl start

sudo apache2ctl restart

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Important Files Location

Put your website into:

/var/www/html/

It will be necessary to rename the default Apache index.html file via

mv index.html oldindex.html

You can then copy your website into /var/www/html/

• Apache 2 Configuration files

          /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
          apache2.conf is the main Apache configuration file.
          This file is used by Debian instead of the more common httpd.conf

If you have PHP installed then you probably want Apache to serve index.php as the default page instead of index.html

To do this :

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

and put index.php before index.html so that it looks like :

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

Note that some Apache configurations put DirectoryIndex in either httpd.conf or apache2.conf

Debian, on which Raspbian is based, uses apache2.conf and dir.conf for some of the configurations.

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Further Help

INSTALL APACHE, PHP 7.0 AND MYSQL/MARIADB ON A RASPBERRY PI (LAMP) WITH PHPMYADMIN

How to install a web server on the Raspberry Pi (Apache + PHP + MySQL)

How to setup a Raspberry Pi web server with Raspbian Stretch Lite, Nginx, MariaDB and PHP as the LEMP stack

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