How to find the file which says, “It works!”

Question

If I type "localhost" into a web browser address bar I get a page with the following information:

It works!

This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

I know that this is a file somewhere on my computer. How can I find this file?

probably better to find out what webserver is running and look in the corresponding directories. If you are desperate though I guess you could do grep -r It\ works /* but it might take a while
Haha. I like how you suggested that brute force method as a last resort.
There is a chance that "there is no spoon" (the message could be generated dynamically by a printf in the server).

Zanchey · Answer 1 · 2012-01-19 03:19:14Z

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On Debian (and its derivatives, like Ubuntu), you can find this file in /var/www/index.html.

answered Jan 19 at 3:19

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