I wrote my own HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and I just want to host the website somewhere. I chose digital Ocean, thus Joomla, however I've found Joomla is constructed around templates. I want to use my own code.
How do I do this?
Joomla is a content management system/framework. If you just want to host static HTML you can just spin up a droplet using the default Ubuntu image, ssh into it and run:
apt-get update
apt-get install apache2
This will install the apache web server. You can then drop your content into /var/www/html using an SFTP client like Filezilla. Once your content is in that folder it will be accessible via a web browser.
(Alternately you can use the LAMP image when creating your droplet which already has apache installed but also includes PHP and the MySQL database server)
I've installed apache2 and transferred the files through Filezilla to /var/www, but now I'm getting a 404 not found - not even the apache "it works" page.
I have an index.html file in /var/www so I don't understand why it's not working.
The default web root in Ubuntu versions 14.04 and newer is /var/www/html instead of /var/www/