Hello every body.. I am a freshmen in linux and i do not know muvh about it... I installed linux as i wanted to host my own website at my home and not buy any hosting services .. I have registered my self a domain and have high speed cable at home ... I am using linux suse 10.0 OSS and need help to configure it... every thing http dns and everything else needed to run a personnel website... Thanks Taral

well first of all you probably have a dynamic IP address which will make it difficult to host a website. You could either pay your providor extra or use no-ip to make it static. Then you also need to get software to make a web server. The most common software is apache. That should be enough tostart with. You can other protocals like ftp and smtp and pop3 later

thanks for replying... but i do have a static ip... but all i what i dont get is to how to configure my DNS HTTP and FTP server in suse .. i have installed everything ... PHP MYSQL... etc but dont know how to get started with and Suse is difficult to deal with....

This might be considered kinda off-topic --

>not buy any hosting services

http://pages.google.com

You say that you have everything installed.
MySql should require few configuration changes. Just create the databases you'll need.
Apache configuration for httpd is fairly straight-forward if you're running just one site. Have you looked at the docs and tutorials on apache.org?

Setting up FTP is a different story. Can you tell us what kind of FTP server you have? VsFtp? ProFtp? Something else?

There are some docs on how to set up a LAMP machine (Linux Apache MySql Php/Perl/Python). Just google for them or search on this forum.

As for configuring DNS. You'll need to create some files that define your DNS "zones". You'll probably need just one zone for starters. Your ISP's DNS will have an entry that contains what IP address your nameserver has. The machine that has this IP should have it's own DNS server running.
In your DNS config, you'll need:
-"A" records for all your hosts;
-"CNAME" recors for hostname aliases;
-"MX" records for mail servers;
-etc
Check out:
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch4/
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/li...me-server.html
or just Google to find some DNS config examples...

NO offense but sir i have read articles on this forum which help you out to setup webhosting and clearly stating that get all things for free and than make money from them.... Mine is a legimate question as using linux i can host my personnal website at home rather than paying some one.... I m really sorry if u found it off-topic...

Hey tim i have looked up docs and franky speaking dont get any idea about what it is talking... i know that it might sound a bit weird for you ... but i really don tget any thing... when i try to open my page it shows connection refused do u know how can i resolve this?

Given the level of knowledge that you have displayed so far, I would recommend that you NOT host your own web server.

A box that is connected to the internet will come under unceasing attack, and hardening and securing the box is very much a non-trivial job, requiring constant vigilance and an ability to quickly respond when evidence of an exploit occurs.

This requires a substantial knowledge of Linux, Apache, all other servers that will be available, and all configuration issues. It is not a trivial problem and it does take time to learn.

Should you deploy an insecure box, the most likely scenario is that it will be taken over by a hacker who will use it for his own purposes; kiddie porn, phishing, spamming, or whatever.

You might deploy a server on your own lan and use it as a learning tool until you are absolutely confident that you know everthing there is to know about it before taking it onto the internet.

Myself, I pay for site hosting. I have a number of sites of my own, I have my own ASP service, with my own servers deployed at a server farm, and I do development work for ISPs. But in spite of that, I let others host my websites.

Why? Because I can buy hosting for much less than it would cost me to maintain my own web server.

taral, jiml8 has a point there. Hosting a web site on the internet isn't as straightforward as it looks.
As for the connection refused message, I recommend checking if traffic on port 80 (http) is blocked by a firewall and if there is an Apache httpd daemon listening on port 80 of the network interface you're connecting to.

What is the URL you were using? Does it contain a hostname or an IP address? Or does it use the localhost (127.0.0.1) interface, ie for testing?

127.0.0.1 works fine but the error is when i try to open my ip address or try to forward my domain to my ip address i get the message that the connection is refused...

So you can visit your website via the 127.0.0.1 (localhost) interface, but not your other IP address.
Then httpd is simply listening to port 80 on the localhost interface, instead of to port 80 on the network
interface with your other IP.
The "localhost" interface is different for each machine and can thus only be accessed on the machine itself.

so is their any solution to it?

If you want to access the webpage via your hostname or IP, instead of hostname "localhost" or IP "127.0.0.1",
then you need to configure httpd to do so.

In httpd.conf, change the "Listen" directive as indicated in the file comments.

If you have virtual hosts, they can bind (listen) to specific IP addresses too, so you'll need to change their definitions as well.

check out some articles on

BIND

the free dns nameserver that should have came with your linux distro

this is one site with bind documentation
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/
at the bottom of the page look at BIND 9.3 Admin Reference Manual

i know there are others, several books, and googleing will provide other documentation

making dns work is an incredbly complex task, and will require alot of reading, unfortunatly

good luck from me
james

thanks.... i will the documentation....