LAMP Details

Full access to modify this application to suit any development project is possible upon deployment by connecting to the server via console or SSH as the root user.

The web server document root is configured as /var/www/html/

• Insecure browser access is available via http://use.your.ip/.
• Secure access is available by default via https://use.your.ip/.
  • Upon deployment, a self-signed certificate is generated. View our instructions to bypass the HTTPS warning for self-signed SSL/TLS certificates.
  • Certificates signed by trusted commercial Certificate Authorities (CA) can be installed, or a free Let's Encrypt certificate can be generated.
  • We also have step-by-step instructions for wildcard Let's Encrypt SSL/TLS certificates

Verify Web Server Functionality

To quickly verify the Apache web server is responding, connect to the server via console or SSH and run:
# curl --head --insecure https://localhost

"HTTP/1.1 200 OK" should be visible in the output (often the first line returned).

MariaDB (MySQL)

Access the database server as the root user with the credentials saved in /root/.my.cnf:
# mysql -u root

Apache Service Management

To stop Apache:
# systemctl stop apache2.service

To start Apache:
# systemctl start apache2.service

To verify the Apache service status:
# systemctl status apache2.service

To disable Apache starting on server boot:
# systemctl disable apache2.service

To enable Apache starting on server boot:
# systemctl enable apache2.service