Local Website Application Setup on LAN

localSitesSetup.txt

# go to the directory where we will keep the codebase for the local sites
cd /var/www/html

git clone githubRepoUrl

sudo apt-get update -y

#install apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2

#add PPA 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

#install php5.6 first
sudo apt-get install php5.6  -y

#install php5.6 extensions
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mysql php5.6-xml php5.6-curl php5.6-memcached php5.6-memcached php5.6-redis memcached -y

#install node and npm
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs nodejs-legacy npm -y

#check and confirm the node and npm versions are correct as per requirement
npm -v
node -v

#apache2 enable php5.6 module
a2enmod php5.6

#apache2 enable rewrite module required in all the vhost
a2enmod rewrite

#apache2 enable ssl module required for secured (https)
a2enmod ssl

#apache2 enable rewrite module required in vhost containing reverse proxy for nodejs application
a2enmod proxy

sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo a2enmod proxy
sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer
sudo a2enmod proxy_http

# after apache2 modules changes, apache2 needs to be restarted
sudo service apache2 restart

# goto the directory where all your sites configuration are done
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/

# creating virtual hosts as per the sites you want to setup on local
sudo touch site.com.conf

# SSL for yourFirstName.site.com
openssl req -x509  -sha256 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -in /etc/php5/cacert.pem  -keyout site.com.key -out site.com.crt -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

# move SSL Keys to the right folders
mv site.com.key site.com.key /etc/ssl/private

# enable your sites which you have created 
sudo a2ensite site.com

sudo vi /etc/hosts
Press Shift+G (takes you to the last line)
Press Insert keyboard key (lets you edit the file)
Press End Keyboard key (takes you to end of the line)
127.0.0.1 yourFirstName.site.com

# does config-test and gives verbose O/P incase of error
apache2ctl -t

# after apache2 sites configuration changes, it needs be reloaded
sudo service apache2 reload

#copy paste the output of the below
whoami

# To be able to edit files as the owner and at the same time letting www-data user be able to access the files
sudo chown 'copy-paste-here':www-data -R var/www/html/

# permission required for write by www-data group user
chmod 777 /var/www/html/site.com/cacheDir