Take Back the Darknet (Part 5)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 5 - Installing Apache 2.4 HTTP Server

Archive note: This page documents the January 2016 Raspbian Jessie setup. Read the compatibility and security warning in Part 1 before using any of these commands on a current system.

If you are hosting a clearnet website, you will want to make sure ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) are forwarded on your router. One of the wonderful things about the darknet is that it does not require any port forwarding due to the way Tor works.

We’ll use Apache 2.4 as the web server for this build.

Nginx was another option, but this project used Apache, so Apache is what the rest of the series documents.

sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

We will also be using PHP alongside Apache’s basic HTML support.

The php5 and libapache2-mod-php5 package names below belong to the Jessie-era software stack used in 2016. They are retained here as part of that historical setup rather than as current installation instructions.

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 -y

Next up we’ll install Samba.

Advance onward to part 6 or head back to the table of contents on page 1.

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