[Installation] After choosing to install a web server during the installation process, what happends?

[galluzHalevi]

I'v just installed a Debian server on an old machine that was just there. In the installation process, I chose to install web-server.
Which web server is it? Apache? how do I config it? I can't find info and I'm new to the server realm so I don't know where to look.

[dilberts_left_nut]

Yes, apache2.
Config is in /etc/apache2

DOCUMENTATION
The full documentation is available in the apache2-doc package or at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ . Information about Debian specific
changes and configuration can be found in
/usr/share/doc/apache2/README.Debian.gz .

[Gerowen]

As has been stated; it's apache2. The default location of web directories is /var/www and your apache config is in /etc/apache2 . You also have auxiliary commands to modify apache's config:

- a2enmod - Enables the specified module
- a2dismod - Disables the specified module
- a2ensite - Enables the specified site. The name you can use here corresponds to the filename, minus extension, for a site you have configured in /etc/sites-available . So for example, if you have a config for a site at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.conf, you would "enable" the site with "a2ensite default", either as root or with sudo.
- a2dissite - Disables the specified site, see previous bullet for details.

If you make changes to the configuration, enable/disable sites or modules, etc., you'll want to do a systemctl reload apache2 to basically restart the service with all the new changes in place.

As far as configuring it, you can learn a lot by just reading the config file for the default site, perhaps the manual for apache itself (man apache2), and checking out the Wiki. For example, I found this wiki page about apache hardening here:

https://wiki.debian.org/Apache/Hardening

[flamur]

I found this thread and would like to ask if I need to install the webserver during debian install if I am going to only run openlightspeed wordpress server from home?

(using this: https://openlitespeed.org/kb/1-click-install/)