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Hi
I am wanting to setup a test server for my website and in time use a home server to run my website (its cheaper)...
As i am a newbe to linux i dont know which software i will have install to do this.
and where i could find a step by step howto on setting up an home server..
I did http://localhost so i know i have no software install to do this..
a "home server" could be a million different things... you need to be a lot more specific. if you want a web server, then install and run apache after reading up on its documentation.
So what you're wanting to do is setup a personal, at-home-server, to host your website.
Look into installing Apache webserver http://www.apache.org/
Its really quite easy and supports a ton of options and configurations.
And then just forward what ever ports you want from your router to the LAN IPaddress of your server-box. Then you could goto somewhere like no-ip.org, or godaddy.com and register for a domain name so people dont have to remember the IP that your ISP assigns you.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by GUIPenguin; 05-20-2006 at 02:34 PM.
As much as I dislike Gentoo as a distrobution, it does have some pretty impressive documentation and a showoff community that tends to submit detailed docs That HOWTO covers more than what you want to do but by following the relevant sections you should be able to get a server up, most of the commands (except for the portage & rc-update-related ones) will work on any distro. Or you could just use Gentoo and be done with it, it's not that bad.
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That HOWTO covers more than what you want to do but by following the relevant sections you should be able to get a server up, most of the commands (except for the portage & rc-update-related ones) will work on any distro. Or you could just use Gentoo and be done with it, it's not that bad.
