Installing and configuring an HTTP server

- [Instructor] A common use for a server…is to host a web page or web application.…To do this we need to install an http server package.…In this video, I'll show you how to install…and configure the Apache http server on an Ubuntu server.…To start with, we'll need to install the software…from the repositories.…And to do that I'll write apt install apache2.…This will install the software we need,…set up the configuration and folders,…and start up the service.…(keyboard clicking)…Let's take a look at the service.…

Looks like it's running.…On Ubuntu, the configuration for Apache…is broken up over a few files.…Technically, these all act as one file…because the primary file includes or calls the others.…But having them broken up helps readability…and maintainability.…In fact, if we take a look at that file,…there's a little diagram of how the files are included.…Conf files are pieces of the configuration file.…And the ones located in the sites available folder…are the configuration files we created to find the site.…