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

[stowellian.livejournal.com]

let me know what you find. I'd read your ISP contract carefully and see if you are allowed to host outgoing bandwidth over the connection. I'm interested in doing the same thing, though I have even less knowledge than you do.

To think that in 1993, I fancied myself a techno-geek because I taught myself some basic HTML.