: It is not that hard but you will have to get your hands dirty :) It sounds like your Apache is currently only running the one site, which makes things a little easier. Get Apache to start.

@Shelley277

It is not that hard but you will have to get your hands dirty :) It sounds like your Apache is currently only running the one site, which makes things a little easier.


Get Apache to start. In general, you enable as a service and it starts every time your computer starts. The exact command to do this depends on your operating system but most modern ones offer a 'Control Panel' or 'Configuration Settings'. Look for Services and either Apache or HTTPD under that.
The next is to figure out where your htdocs points to. That is controlled by a configuration file somewhere on your system, usually under /etc or /etc/apache2. The config is often directly in httpd.conf or default-server.conf.


For example on my system, file /etc/apache2/default-server.conf has a line that says:

DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs"


If you copy the contents of public_html directory to that folder, then your website should be accessible. Make sure it is at least world-readable so that Apache can read it. You can reach it using 127.0.0.1 or the name of your local machine.

There are tons of configuration reasons why the above may fail, so you consider this a starting point and do ask follow up questions as needed.

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