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Installing and configuring Apache
The best way to become familiar with any technology is to dive right in. We'll begin 
this chapter by installing Apache. But first, what exactly is Apache? For those that 
aren't already aware, Apache is a popular application that is typically run on Linux 
and Unix servers to serve web pages to users. It runs in the background, and serves 
HTML pages to those that request a URL that exists on your server.

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Serving Web Content
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Installing Apache is very easy; it's simply a matter of installing the 
apache2
 package:
sudo apt install apache2 
By default, Ubuntu will immediately start and enable the 
apache2
 daemon as soon as 
its package is installed. You can confirm this yourself with the following command:
systemctl status apache2 
In fact, at this point, you already have (for all intents and purposes) a fully functional 
web server. If you were to open a web browser and enter the IP address of the server 
you just installed Apache on, you should see Apache's sample web page:
Figure 14.1: The default sample web page provided by Apache
There you go, you have officially served web content. All you needed to do was 
install the 
apache2
 package, and your server was transformed into a web server. 
Chapter over, time to move on.

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