in reply to where sould i place the html files

Open your httpd.conf file in your favourite editor and look for DocumentRoot.

On 95% of the systems out there, DocumentRoot will point to some directory called 'htdocs' somewhere on your system. At one point, some linux distros went with 'html' instead. But httpd.conf never lies.

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