Setting Up a Website

Before You Begin

This guide assumes you have already correctly configured OpenHTTPd and set up [TLS. This guide assumes you have already correctly configured OpenHTTPd and set up [TLS.

Finding the Document Root

To set up a website, put files in your document root. You'll want to check /etc/httpd.conf. Here is a sample server block:

server "example.com" {
    listen on * tls port 443
    tls {
        certificate "/etc/ssl/example.com.fullchain.pem"
        key "/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key"
    }
    location "/pub/*" {
        directory auto index
    }
    location "/.well-known/acme-challenge/*" {
        root "/acme"
        request strip 2
    }
}

In this example, the only document root in the configuration is for ACME verification, not for your website. Since the document root is not specified, OpenHTTPd defaults to /htdocs. Since OpenHTTPd runs in a chroot by default, this means your files should go in /var/www/htdocs/.

Creating a Webpage

Create your own webpage by editing /var/www/htdocs/index.html.

Save this page, then load https://example.com/index.html in your web browser to view.

NOTE: Make sure to replace example.com with your actual hostname.

As practice, you can try setting up the following web sites:

|| border=1 width=100%25 class="sortable simpletable"

||# Name ||# Type ||

|| pmwiki || wiki ||

|| Dokuwiki || wiki ||

|| CVSWeb || CVS Code Hosting ||

|| Cgit || Git code hosting ||

|| Gotweb || Got code hosting ||

|| Paster || Pastebin ||

|| Squirrelmail || Webmail ||

|| Wordpress || Blog ||