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I have a apache web server installed on my Ubuntu 11.04 laptop, I have no idea on how to use it. Where can I find information about it? Is there anything I "should" do when I now have installed it.

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If you think you need a GUI for a web server program, you shouldn't be using one. – Wuffers Dec 17 '11 at 20:22
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The standard configuration of Apache should be fine if you want to run a single website without SSL.

As a matter of fact, http://yourip should show It works! by now. Just copy the files you want to serve in the /var/www directory.

For anything selse, you can refer to the official documentation: Apache Tutorials

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To answer you last question:

Apache does not come with a GUI, but you can download ApacheConf form Apache-GUI.com

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I already know that everything works: alvarberglind.se I actually just wanted more information on what I can do right now. – Alvar Dec 17 '11 at 19:32
That is hard to say without knowing what you want to do. There's nothing left to do in Apache, unless you want to set up a second website with a different domain, activate SSL, install PHP, restrict access to certain IPs, compress your traffic... The list goes on and on. – Dennis Dec 17 '11 at 19:53
well, can we start with what I can do in apache? – Alvar Dec 17 '11 at 20:01
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That question is overly broad. I cannot possibly list all available features of Apache here. It would really help to know what you had in mind when you installed Apache in the first place. For the basic features, read the tutorial. If you have problems settings something up, then I can help you. – Dennis Dec 17 '11 at 20:07
Alvar, you can do just about anything you can see on the internet! Seriously, you can do from a simple and static site, up to a more complicated and dynamic site. As Dennis pointed out, it's up to your choices what to do from now on.The Apache Tutorial Documentation may better fit the bill: if that's not enough, just Google for something like "Apache tutorial" or "how to use a webserver". I'd suggest also to take a look at the Drupal site. – dag729 Dec 17 '11 at 20:13
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Well, basically you can host a HTML-based website(s) on your local machine (and that's about it). I think there's a small, menu-based GUI but I feel that it's just easier to edit httpd.conf directly.

If you want to develop with PHP (since you really can't do anything dynamic with straight HTML), you'll need to install it (and then restart Apache). To see if PHP is correctly installed, go to your /var/www/ directory and create a file called test.php with this line in it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Then, just to go http://localhost/test.php. If that doesn't resolve, you'll need to follow these instructions to install it.

I hope that's what you're looking for.

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