Build Your First Web Server

have you ever wanted to learn more about how the internet works? have you ever wondered what a 'web server' is and maybe wanted to build your own to share your cool websites with the world? This zine is for you!

as part of my residency with Container Magazine and Control Shift, I built my own little simple web server to host my own websites. It runs on a Raspberry Pi and uses an Apache server.

even though I'd been a software engineer for quite a few years, I didn't know much about what setting up a server on my own might entail.

I've collated the basic steps that I found helpful here because I couldn't find one resource that had everything I needed - it's cobbled together from different sources and I hope to expand on it so that it's not just a step-by-step guide, but also an explainer for people who might not know all the lingo used.

this is still a bit of a work-in-progress as I learn more and have time to add useful things, let me know if you have any feedback!

Available in a regular PDF or one that you can print and fold up.