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okay, first the intro.. i used linux as a desktop user for a couple of years.. however i'm still a noob... big time i'm realizing now.
my goal is to setup an intranet webpage at work
i currently have my own website for my hobby.
that's hosted offsite so all the server side is taken care of.
my office has a DNS server already setup, so that's done.
the server at the office is a capable machine. we want to run Fedora Core 5 . it seems to be the standard. it doesn't matter how many times we wipe the drive either.
how do i verify that apache ( or a recommended web server is installed/up/running? i'm also having a huge n00b moment trying to find out the IP address of my linux box @ home where i'm practicing this all from this weekend.
the software i want to run is SMF
so i also need SQL ( preferably with a GUI because i'm a terminal n00b )
and PHP ( again, GUI if necessary to configure ) .
where again are the file stored for the webserver?
also need : FTP and appropriate tutorial for somebody clueless to linux .
Try running "/sbin/ifconfig" as a normal user, or become root and run "ifconfig". /sbin usually isn't in the $PATH for normal users. Most likely you'll need to be root to run service.
You can check out if the default web server is installed using
rpm -qa httpd
If you don't get a result , you will have to install apache.
similarly for ftp , check out rpm -qa vsftpd
The config file for apache is
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
in redhat/fedora installations.
For GUI tools for everything I suggest you install webmin and go ahead with the modules in it.
okay, i have vsftpd, apache and webmin installed with all of the correct modules. works good. i can login for the other computer and browse the "website" that i'm trying to host on this server. however, i need ftp access to work from outside of the local box. when i'm in terminal and type ftp > o localhost > etc... i can login from there. when i try to login to ftp from anothe computer it says login incorrect. i have local logins enabled... the domain is still setup as localhost.localdomain. do i just need to login as admin or admin@ ????
also, any recommendations on how to install MySql?
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