LAMP: /var/www/html/index.html missing

Question

I have a problem: I've just installed LAMP, and at some point I realized that /var/www/html/index.html is missing.

How can I get it back? If this file is the same for all machines, can anyone tell me where I can download it?

Answer 1

index.html or index.php is the starting file of your web page.. (example.com usually is the same as example.com/index.php or .html) If you don't have none of these files create one and start inserting your lines of html (...)

Answer 2

First find the package to reinstall...

lxd: net12-david-favor-zesty # dpkg -S $(which apache2)
apache2-bin: /usr/sbin/apache2

Now force reinstall the package.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall apache2-bin

And this might be overkill. Likely this will also do the trick...

sudo dpkg-reconfigure apache2

Or you can just...

mkdir -p /var/www/html
echo "Default Page" > /var/www/html/index.html

To have a simple default page.