web server

[Harold Hallikainen]

>
> On Fri, April 7, 2006 9:29 pm, Bret Stern said:
>>
>> I have FC4 running reliably on a nice Dell server
>> behind a good firewall.
>>
>> I would like to stop my ISP from hosting my site
>> and let my static ip (one of five i have) server
>> host my web site.
>>
>> It seems straight forward.
>>
>> 1. I need to change my configuration at Internic
>>    to point to my servers.
>
> DNS: Are you going to write your own or have them do it. Some registrars
> won't point to a host outside their hosting pool. I pay my ISP a couple
> bucks a month extra to secondary my DNS entries. They hit mine 3 times a
> day
> and as long as I update the 'serial' in my entries, I'm good to go. Search
> for DNS HOWTO, or NAMED HOWTO for help.
>
>>
>> 2. I need to modify my httpd.conf file.
>
> Very true. If Apache is running, just point your browser at localhost and
> you're on your way.
>
>>
>> Are there any other suggestions. Recommended
>> setup in httpd.conf??
>
> Wow, that's a book. Please be specific with requests, hopefully one per
> email, as you go along and hit the inevitable bumps. Some things you'll
> probably end up doing is VirtualHosts and security/login sites, etc. This
> isn't rocket science, but it can get hairy with the different versions of
> HTTPD.
>
> As long as you're at it, look into fetchmail, or just using your host as
> the
> email server, too. That cleans up the MX records at the DNS server. If you
> do, take a hard look at bogofilter or spamassassin, plus clamav for virus
> protection. You could look at them anyway if you are going to use
> fetchmail,
> which is pretty simple to use. Redundancy is good for spam and virus
> filtering.
>
> HTH more than confuses.
>
> Karl
>


I'm pretty much doing what you're proposing (http://www.hallikainen.org).
I started slow and built stuff up over the years.

I'm running a Linksys BEFSR81 router between the DSL and the LAN. I have
it forwarding ports for http, ssh, smtp, and ssl to the FC4 machine. I'm
using sendmail for sending and receiving email (relaying it through my
ISPs smtp server). I'm using Apache for web serving. I'm using dovecot as
the  IMAP server. I'm using SquirrelMail as my webmail client. These are
all included with FC4.

Mostly I go through the config files making small modifications in the
hopes of getting stuff to do what I want. Before modifying a config, I cp
it to filename.HH.1 where 1 changes with each revision and HH is a flag so
I can easily find modified configs.

One of the changes I made in Apache config is to put the document root at
/home/harold/public_html instead of /var/www or wherever it defaults. That
makes it easy for me to make changes without becoming root.

For DNS, I'm using http://www.dns2go.com. I told Networks Solutions to use
the DNS2go servers for my dns. dns2go is designed to provide dns services
to people with dynamic IP addresses (both you and I have static). Even
though I have a static IP, I'm running the dns2go script so it knows my
server's IP address. This came in handy a couple years ago when I moved. I
pulled the server from home and put it in my office for a few weeks. No
one knew the difference. The IP address changed as appropriate. When I got
DSL in our new home, I moved the server there, plugged it in, and it was
on line. Real simple!

So... I suggest just start messing with it. Decide what service you want
to get working first. Keep banging on it until it works. Ask questions
here.

Good luck!

Harold

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