Do I need Apache installed on VPS before instaling traccar?

Hi,

I've been trying to get Traccar working for 2 days now. I've followed the guide in the documentation and also a guide on YouTube but no luck.
Traccar installs and the service starts. But I am unable to access toe traccar portal on either port 80 or the default port 8082.

The VPS I'm using has Ubuntu 16.04 and has no GUI just a command line stripped down version on Ubuntu.
My question is, do I need Apache installed first before installing Traccar?

If so, how do I configure Traccar to run on port 80?
I am aware that I need to specify port 80 in traccar.xml but is there anything I need to configure in Apache's configuration file to make it work on Port 80?

maybe firewall ?

check

sudo ufw status verbose

Why do you need Apache?

Thanks for the reply Anton.
I couldn't get the Traccar page to load on either port 80 or port 8082 - So I assumed that you needed Apache for it to work.

I'm not sure where I went wrong during my install, but here are the exact steps I followed:

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get install unzip default-jre mysql-server -y

sudo mysql -u root -p

CREATE USER 'traccar@localhost' IDENTIFIED by 'password';

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'traccar@localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit;

sudo mysql -u root -p

create database traccar;

exit;

wget https://github.com/traccar/traccar/releases/download/v4.0/traccar-linux-4.0.zip

unzip traccar-linux-*.zip

sudo ./traccar.run

nano traccar.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd'>
<properties>

    <entry key="config.default">./conf/default.xml</entry>

    <entry key='web.port'>80</entry>

    <entry key='geocoder.enable'>false</entry>

    <entry key='database.driver'>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</entry>
    <entry key='database.url'>jdbc:mysql://localhost/traccar?allowMultiQueries=$
    <entry key='database.user'>root</entry>
    <entry key='database.password'>password_i_set</entry>

    <entry key='server.timeout'>120</entry>

</properties>

Save the text file as traccar.xml

sudo cp traccar.xml /opt/traccar/conf/

sudo rm -f traccar.run README.txt traccar-linux-*.zip

sudo /opt/traccar/bin/startDaemon.sh

tail -f /opt/traccar/logs/wrapper.log.*

You don't need Apache.

What is in log file ?

    <entry key='database.driver'>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</entry> 
    <entry key='database.url'>jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/traccar?serverTimezone=UTC&amp;useSSL=false&amp;allowMultiQueries=true&amp;autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=yes&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;sessionVariables=sql_mode=''</entry>
    <entry key='database.user'>root</entry> 
    <entry key='database.password'>your_password</entry>

Uninstall this version

sudo /opt/traccar/bin/stopDaemon.sh
sudo /opt/traccar/bin/uninstallDaemon.sh
sudo rm -R /opt/traccar

Install new

wget https://github.com/traccar/traccar/releases/download/v4.5/traccar-linux-64-4.5.zip

unzip traccar-linux-*.zip

sudo ./traccar.run

Edit /opt/traccar/conf/traccar.xml

<entry key='database.driver'>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</entry> 
    <entry key='database.url'>jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/traccar?serverTimezone=UTC&amp;useSSL=false&amp;allowMultiQueries=true&amp;autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=yes&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;sessionVariables=sql_mode=''</entry>
    <entry key='database.user'>root</entry> 
    <entry key='database.password'>your_password</entry>

Run Traccart

sudo systemctl start traccar.service

Clear

sudo rm -f traccar.run README.txt traccar-linux-*.zip

Check log in /opt/traccar/logs

I just have a question, if there is no apache required how to configure ssl certificate in case we need to use https instead of http for the ip or domain name?

If you need SSL, you need Apache or other proxy.