how to create a portal?
 

hi, i got a DSL connection and i would like to offer my spare pc as a web server for some pages. i would like to have a main page, as a portal, and then host another 5 pages. the problem is that i do not know the procedure. could someone point me somewhere so i could start?

you probably want to set-up a LAMP server: linux, apache, mysql, php and maybe perl...

http://httpd.apache.org/

http://www.mysql.com/

http://www.php.net/

http://www.perl.com/


the websites link to good documentation sources...

you'll also probably be interested in the services these folks offer, so that you can assign a domain name to your home ip address:

http://www.no-ip.com

http://www.dyndns.org

http://www.ods.org


here are some content management systems that are based on php and mysql:

http://www.xoops.org

http://www.mamboserver.com

http://www.postnuke.com