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Installing a web server under Debian is as simple as installing apache:

# wajig install apache

You will now have a default web page at http://localhost/. The actual page being displayed there comes from /var/www/index.html. You can begin creating your own web site from there.

For a secure web server, using SSL to encrypt all communications from a browser to the server (recognised with the https: prefix), there are at least two options in Debian. One is to use apache with the libapache-mod-ssl module and the other is to install the apache-ssl which installs a separate apache server to listen to port 443 (instead of 80). There are advantages either way but using apache-ssl is straightforward and cleanly keeps the two servers separate (configuration files are in /etc/apache and /etc/apache-ssl and log files in /var/log/apache and /var/log/apache-ssl respectively).

Subsections

• User Web Pages
• Bad Behaviour on Missing /
• Password Protect Web Files
• Renew SSL Certificate
• Compressed HTML
• Web Log Summaries
• Server Side Includes
• Identifying the Web Server