Usage: (In the terminal)

command to navigate to a directory:

$ cd ~/Downloads/

Start a http file server on default 8000 port:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Or use a defined port:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8088

To access the file server, go to http://serverip:port in client’s browser.

If you do not already have a GUI on your Raspbian, or you use SSH to connect to your Raspberry, you can use the following command:

  wget -O check_apache.html http://127.0.0.1 

This command will save the HTML code of the page in the file “check_apache.html” in the current directory. So you only have to read the file with the command:

  cat ./check_apache.html

If you see marked at a location in the code “It works! ” is that Apache is working.