Re: webserver in linux at home ?
- From: "Nietzsche" <sc00b123@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Oct 2006 17:20:52 -0700
surf wrote:
I previously investigated running a webserver at home with light
traffic. If my site started getting too many hits, I'd host it
someplace else, using a cable modem through RCN can I get away with
that ?
Anyway, previous research led me to believe if I was hosting a site on
a windows box, there where too many security issues. I'm a programmer
and not heavily admin oriented. I recently started getting into linux
having some free time. I recently installed knoppix 5.01 on a 10 gig
hard drive, old desktop w/256 meg ram, and vector linux on a 15 gig
older desktop w/126 meg ram. So I am having fun with linux so far. Is
the security issue less of a problem on linux ? If this looked doable
for a guy like me, I might invest in a bigger desktop and install
ubuntu or something. Can I run a website behind a router ? What if I
had a proxy server, would that make all this more secure and more
easily managable ?
thanks
It's way easy, assuming you have a fixed IP. I'm not familiar with
Ubuntu but most distros come with apache. You just fire it up and put
your index.html in somewhere like /var/www/html.
Put yourself behind a firewall (you'll need NAT if you're running the
server inside) and only allow traffic to and for http.
If you really want to be safe, get the latest (patched) version from
http://httpd.apache.org, read the install doc that comes with. Unless
you specifiy otherwise everything usually goes in /usr/local/apache.
The config doc is called httpd.conf
This might help:
http://osvoip.net/apache.html
.
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