Re: webserver in linux at home ?

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:47:02 +0100, The Natural Philosopher staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
surf wrote:
I previously investigated running a webserver at home

Your ISP's TOS/AUP probably prohibits "running servers", as other people
have said. Your ISP probably *doesn't care* if you run a low-traffic
websewer, though. The load from an infrequently-accessed Apache is
probably much less than the load from everybody Bittorrenting every
episode of every TV show ever, after all. Just remember that many ISPs
that deliver cable/DSL cap the upstream at a low level, so if you get
/.ed or Farked, you're screwed no matter what.

Can I run a website behind a router ?
better if you do, but you have to make sure that you have a fixed IP
address on your internet connection

Totally not necessary, and probably too expensive. dyndns.org and
similar services exist, after all, and utilities like ddclient exist
that'll update those entries every time your dynamic IP changes.

your router alows you to map incoming port 80 calls to the public
address to your linux [box's] native address.

If it can't do that, it's a pretty poor router.

you have a public dns somewhere that diverts queries about
www.yoursite.com to whatever your fixed public IP adress is.

See the dyndns.org paragraph.

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