Ideas for website (non-profit)
 

I am trying to get some experience of running a linux webserver. I don't have any interest in web design, and i've no intention to try to make money out of it. I would just like to host something simple, that generates some traffic, just for the experience of running the server and dealing with the associated admin.

Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking of something charitable, or along those lines..


Thanks.

Hi,

How about a site about ... you? Index page, some pictures, an "about be", some place for "interesting' downloads (keep that legal ;) ) and how about an embedded strip to your favorite internet radio? This is such an example

...and embeds a shoutcast radio into your page (starts running/playing right away, so provide a separate page for it)

Post the URL here (if/when public) so I can generate at least ONE visit :)

Luck

Thor

I agree with Thor, something about you, maybe a blog.

You can give an insight into your findings and such of being a webmaster for the first time. Maybe any tips/tricks you figure out along the way, to give other people a head start in becoming a webmaster, surely some people would be interested in that. I dunno.... haha just rambling.

Good luck though,
cheers.

A blog, a WordPress site (installing WordPress locally rather than using hosted), a forum - phpBB is free. As for content, either about yourself, things that bug you, funny pictures of your cat. Or, if you want something more worthy, try finding a local "good cause" or charity and offer to do them a website?

I had a personal web site hosted through a third party company for years. This year when the time came to renew, I instead took a backup, restored onto an old Dell system running Fedora that was laying around, and set it all up again, including Sendmail, Apache, FTP, etc.

I think i'm going down the route of a WordPress site; a blog basically, about my adventures in Computing - shell scripts and stuff available to download, hopefully some homerolled rpms if I ever learn to actually roll them; occasional articles on FOSS issues when I get time to write them.. stuff like that.

Thanks for the input! :)

Cool. If you're using Fedora, the install of Wordpress was relatively straight forward. yum install wordpress httpd mysql and create the virtual host for Wordpress (it installs in /usr/share/wordpress), then the web installer will do the rest.

Good luck, and let us know if you have questions along the way.