Re: [SLE] Hosting my webpage

From: Peter L. Berghold (Peter_at_berghold.net)
Date: 04/30/05

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To: Chaitanya Krishna A <icymist82@yahoo.com>

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    Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
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    > I want to host my home page from my computer.
    >
    >

    Chaitanya,

    There's lots of homework you need to do to answer that one.

    First off, you need to set up some sort of web server. If you are going
    to set up just HTML and maybe some CGI then this can be as simple as
    going to http://www.apache.org and downloading the latest and most
    stable version of apache, untaring it, building it, installing it,
    configuring it, starting it up and putting your pages in the appropriate
    places.

    Where, you ask, do I put my index.html? That depends on how the web
    server is configured. Look in the configuration files for where the
    document root directory is.

    For apache the configuration file of interest is located in
    (APACHE_ISNTALLDIR)/conf/httpd.conf and the variable of interest is HTDOCS.

    If you've never configured a web server before then you probably should
    read the documentation on that web server before you start.

    There are other issues here: Do you want to host this for your own
    "entertainment" or do you want others to see the site? If you want
    others to see the site then you have more issues to deal with. One of
    those is getting a stable recognized IP address with the host name
    registered somewhere.

    One solution for that is to get set up with one of the DHCP registration
    sites such that when you get an IP from your ISP (such as DSL or cable)
    you can tell the registry "Here I am!" and there then exists a mapping
    to a predictable name and your dynamic address. Check out
    http://www.dyndns.org/services/dns/dyndns for example.

    There's lots to what you are trying to do and some googleing for
    information may help and occasionally you may have to break down and buy
    a book to help you further.

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