Help me, Captain Intarweb!
Jan. 4th, 2005 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_tectonicOkay! 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!
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!
Hosting
Date: 2005-01-06 11:38 am (UTC)But if you want to host your own, I'd be happy to help you set up DNS (or with setting up a webserver, for that matter). I'd also be happy to host a secondary DNS server for you (and a store and forward mail exchanger, if you're receiving mail at your domain-to-be).
The O'Reilly DNS/Bind book is a pretty coherent explanation of the DNS system, if you want to understand how the whole thing works and why changes take so long to propagate. But you can get started by modifying a simple zone file.