Installing Apache

#apt-get install apache2

#apt-get install apache2-doc

Now we'll do a quick check to verify Apache is running.

#/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Starting web server: Apache2httpd (pid 11205) already running

Now, try browsing with you IP Address/Localhost/LoopBackAdd

The default Apache files are stored in /var/www/

So, if you get an error, check this location for any files. If there are no files, move some html files and check again.

For Accessing Directories other than from /var/www, create a Virtual Directory.

Virtual Directories in Apache lets you browse websites with a http://localhost/sitename.

If the physical path for /sitename is located at a different location.

Solution:

Add the Following Lines to httpd.conf or conf.d/apache2.conf file(which are located in apache directory) and do the changes as per your requirement

Alias /sitename "/sites/sitename"

<Directory "/sites/sitename ">

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

    AllowOverride All

    Order allow, deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>