You should take a look at this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-the-apache-web-server-on-an-ubuntu-or-debian-vps
The Apache web server is the most popular way to serve web content on the internet. The Apache provides a modular and scalable server that can satisfy the needs of large and small sites alike. In this guide, we will go over the main configuration files and some of the options you have when deploying your server.
seems like a good question and a useless answer.
I cuurently have a standard LAMP set up but can seem to ftp to the public_html folder and so cant put anything on my site. Very frustrating. I guess the solution is simple but the answer here is not helpful.