I'm running Slack 10.0

I'm interested in running a web/ftp server.

What would I need to do in order for htis to work?

It's a full install.

If you ask like that you aren't ready to run a server.

In order to run a web server you must make sure Apache is running. Open up a terminal, or hit CTRL-ALT-F1 (CTRL-ALT-F7 will take you back into X Windows), and do

ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd

That will show the permissions of the executable that will serve your web page. If it shows something like

-rw-r--r-- 1 root ....

Then Apache is not running. To fix this, change into root user (su) and do

chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd

Then when you do ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd you will get something like

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root ....

For you the next step will be simply to restart your computer. If you don't want to restart you can do

/etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart

And that will start Apache. I don't know if you've worked with apache before, but on Slack 10 the web pages are placed in /var/www/htdocs. To make sure it's working type into the address bar of a browser the IP of the machine you have installed Slack onto. It will show an Apache web page if you are sucessful. From here, you can throw anything you want into /var/www/htdocs and serve them. Getting your page onto the net somehow is another story, but there are a few cool ways, like checking out www.dyndns.org, or creating some scripts to constantly update any free web service you have an account with your server's IP. Then those free services (www.t35.com for one) will actually direct to your home server, and you won't have the stupid bandwidth caps or storage limits. If you get far into this, I can give you a set of scripts to do this for you.

yeah, like chinaman said, maybe you're not ready to setup a server. but if you want to look into it, check out this tutorial for web servers: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/212/1/ and this one for ftp: http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/lin...ftp-server.htm

Thanks, that worked. I'm quite familiar with dyndns. Apache is running. However how would I set something up for perhaps shell users using hte public_html with an addy like mydomain.com/~shelluser?

Usually that's set up with the default install of the WWW server. If not, check out the UserDir configuration option and add the appropriate setting to your httpd.conf. Something like:

UserDir public_html

and it you'll want to add a new set of directory rules for public_html directories, i.e.:

<Directory /h*/*/public_html>
// stuff
</Directory>

consult the Apache documentation for more details. If you're going to run a public WWW server, please take time to understand how to secure it so it can't be easily broken in to. Of late, Apache seems pretty safe out of the box (at least I find myself not tweaking much past the initial install), but it's good to know the concepts and such. The Apache Web site has good info. See also sites like securityfocus.com.

if you know spanish check out this very detailed guide: http://libertonia.escomposlinux.org/.../14/3425/90951 .