Help me, Captain Intarweb!

[dr_tectonic]

Okay! I need geek help!

I want to host some web stuff. Nothing fancy, just boring old html pages. (And maybe some pictures for my blog.) I know that I could pay someone a very minimal amount of money to do it, but I really feel like I ought to be able to do it myself for free, because:

I have a lovely linux box sitting in the other room. It has a static IP address and everything. It's running Fedora core (1 or 2) and I'm all but certain it's got apache installed. So how do I make it spew webpages onto the Intarweb? Is it actually as easy as it seems like it ought to be?

I probably also need to get a domain and make my computer respond to web.something.something instead of number.number.number.number the way it does right now. What's the best way to do that, given that I am both stingy and lazy?

There used to be lots of DIY pages, but that was back in the simple days. I no longer even know where to find the relevant info. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

T'anx!

Comments

Hosting

[0nce-and-future.livejournal.com]

OK - If you have Fedora Core you almost CERTAINLY have Apache installed - now where it wants you to PUT your web page is not my gig... but I'm sure there's a helpful man file there jsut awaiting your geekiness to open in vi/emacs/textedor of choice

If you have a static IP - there are free re-direct services like no-ip.com (drtectonic.no-ip.com), or you can pay a registrar for drtectonic.com/net/org/info/biz/etc

Does that help? Or amy I been lam-o and reiterating exactly what you already know.

Re: Hosting

[0nce-and-future.livejournal.com]

and LORD I can't type when I'm tired I jsut noticed.