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?

2 Answers

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

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.

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