I would like to set up my own website server to host my own creations. I have a SuSE 9.1 computer... What should i read or do to get started from scratch, I dont have anything done so far. Along with that question, is there a way to set up a domain name for my server without having to "buy" one or pay a fee of any kind? thanks for the input

Visit the following

http://www.apacherocks.org/
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.no-ip.com

You will have to buy the actual domain name, but the rest can all be free.

okies, thanks alot for the info

This probably isn't what you're wanting to do, but if you just want to have the domain work on a local network, you could(assuming you had admin priveleges to all computers that would be accessing your website thru the "domain"), just add a DNS record to a DNS server running on your SuSE box, preferably like www.mysite.local, and set all computers to use your SuSE box as their primary DNS server and the regular DNS server as secondary. Its not a real great solution, but it should work(that's what I'm doing/have done w/ FC2, RHEL4, and SLES OES).

What I want to do is to set up my suse box to host a website. but i dont want to pay for anything...including not paying for the domain name, but by what ive read and been told, thats the only thing i WILL have to pay for, now to find a place to do it for super cheap. like $3.99-$6.99 a year, if you see what im saying.

there are quite a few places where you can register your domain for very cheap. the only other cost that I hink you have to incure, unless your connection to the internet is free, is the internet connection.

That said, running Suse as a webserver should not be a problem whatsoever. You have the ability to install apache as part of the install, you can also install Mysql, perl, java, other jarkarta items like tomcat and jetspeed as well.

Although, I would rather use Suse SLES, due to my own predjudices, I think Suse 9.2 pro should work just fine.

great, thanks for teh info