You are going to need a web server if you want to create website locally, one of the best web server is apache, in this tutorial i will show you how to install apache web server on xubuntu 16.04.
Step by step how to install apache web server on xubuntu 16.04
- open command line and type this command
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo service apache2 status
You can start, stop and restart apache web server using the following command:
sudo service apache2 stop
sudo service apache2 start
sudo service apache2 restart