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Configure Apache

Statamic is capable of being served from many different web servers, most notably, Apache and NGINX. Debian includes a running Apache web server by default, so this document provides instructions for Apache only.

Perform the following steps to configure Apache on Debian to serve your Statamic site:

  1. If you have not already done so, start an SSH session with your GCP VM:

    ssh user@yourVmIp

  2. Change to your webroot directory. The default webroot in Apache is /var/www/html/:

    cd /var/www/html/

  3. Delete the default index page:

    sudo rm -rf index.html

  4. Change to your site directory:

    cd /var/www/html/yourSiteName

  5. Modify permissions, allowing the Apache "www-data" user to properly access and make changes to your website files:

    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data site local statamic assets

  6. Enable the sample "htaccess" file by removing the sample prefix:

    mv sample.htaccess .htaccess

  7. Enable url rewriting:

    sudo a2enmod rewrite

  8. Restart Apache:

    systemctl restart apache2