We may not be ready as a class to pursue the full LAMP installation - I think some of you are.  If you are wanting to do a full LAMP stack, you will not want to mess with the default installation of Apache.  Or, you can install it and configure a website - then when ready to install the LAMP installation, remove Apache and its default folders then reinstall.

Apache is the "killer app" for Linux server.  At its peak over 80% of websites were running on Apache.  I don't know what the numbers are today.  It is still very widely used.  Installation is pretty straightforward.  If becomes a little more complicated if you want to allow other users to access directories or host more than one website.  We will cover some basic HTML so you can modify the default page.  Which is located in the  /var/www/html/
directory.  You of course will need to edit the default webpage.  Typically, index.html   - - you will need to access this using root priveledges .  Open your text editor or file manager as root (sudo) then edit and save the index file over the top of the old one.  You can also rename the original file to index.old

https://linux4one.com/how-to-install-apache-on-linux-mint-19/

 

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