Apache on a Pi

Hi there,

I was trying to extent my Domoticz setup and found a php script that acts as an interface between Domoticz and IFTTT.In onder to get an active script it needs a webserver that includes php services. This is where Apache really started.

So the first step is to update apt with :

sudo apt update

The second step is to really install the apache2 server with :

sudo apt install apache2 -y

One can verify the installation by going to the directory that holds the main HTML files that are going to be visable. So :

cd /var/www/html
ls -al

We should be able to see the index file

The next steps are really about the problem that I had and it's about the access to the files in /var

So start by typing the next command :

sudo chown pi: index.html

After that I used :

sudo chown pi /var/www

The page that I used implied that I had access to the directory but I wasn't able to copy the script via the file-manager. ( permission error )

So the trick was to use the following commands ;

sudo -s
gksudo pcmanfm

This opens a different file-manager and that's abble to copy files later.

By default, Apache puts a HTML file in the previous mentioned web folder. This default web page is served at a certain IP number. You can find this IP by using the next command in host mode :

ifconfig

After that I closed and restarted the command prompt and continued with the other php files ;

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php -y

The last thing is to restart the PI with :

sudo reboot

That's it..

Additional information is in these links

:https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/web-server/apache.md

:https://varunver.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/installing-apache-php-libapache2-mod-php/

:https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22068

:https://github.com/DPR7/domoticz-ifttt/wiki/Wiki-with-extra-instructions

I used a PI+B with Jessie as OS.