Hosting Your Website

Installation

• Open your ssh tool (putty) on your PC & login to your dedicated server account (Ex. IP: 10.0.0.1 | user: webserver | Password: W3B$3rv3r2020@ | Port: 22)

• Make sure everything is up to date by typing sudo apt-get update or Sudo yum update

• Install Apache by typing sudo apt-get install apache2

• Verify Apache installation, open your browser and navigate to (Ex. http://10.0.0.1 , your server IP) if successful you should see the Apache 2 page

Configure Your Firewall

• Start by viewing the available app profiles on UFW: sudo ufw show app list

• You should see a list similar to this one:

Available applications:

• • • Apache

    • Apache Full

    • Apache Secure

    • OpenSSH

• Run this command to allow normal traffic on port 80: sudo ufw allow 'Apache' to check the status run sudo ufw status

Apache Commands

Stop Apache: sudo systemctl stop apache2.service

Start Apache: sudo systemctl start apache2.service

Restart Apache: sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

Reload Apache: sudo systemctl reload apache2.service