hi all, I want to host my home page from my computer. Any guidance as to how this can be achieved is very much welcome. I want to know where to put my index.html and how to access the web page from the net. I think something like setting up the web server is involved. What do I need to type in the browser to get to my home page after it is hosted? I am on SuSE 9.1 Pro. Thanks for any help Chaitanya. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
I want to host my home page from my computer.
Chaitanya, There's lots of homework you need to do to answer that one. First off, you need to set up some sort of web server. If you are going to set up just HTML and maybe some CGI then this can be as simple as going to http://www.apache.org and downloading the latest and most stable version of apache, untaring it, building it, installing it, configuring it, starting it up and putting your pages in the appropriate places. Where, you ask, do I put my index.html? That depends on how the web server is configured. Look in the configuration files for where the document root directory is. For apache the configuration file of interest is located in (APACHE_ISNTALLDIR)/conf/httpd.conf and the variable of interest is HTDOCS. If you've never configured a web server before then you probably should read the documentation on that web server before you start. There are other issues here: Do you want to host this for your own "entertainment" or do you want others to see the site? If you want others to see the site then you have more issues to deal with. One of those is getting a stable recognized IP address with the host name registered somewhere. One solution for that is to get set up with one of the DHCP registration sites such that when you get an IP from your ISP (such as DSL or cable) you can tell the registry "Here I am!" and there then exists a mapping to a predictable name and your dynamic address. Check out http://www.dyndns.org/services/dns/dyndns for example. There's lots to what you are trying to do and some googleing for information may help and occasionally you may have to break down and buy a book to help you further. - -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter L. Berghold Peter@Berghold.Net "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it." AIM: redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg ICQ: 11455958 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCc0LEUM9/01RIhaARAotaAJ9+6n/+cTDYJlpngry+ljC7w7JyAgCeO/tR 0qudQFn3Lfjt2JIiIGJObF4= =eF5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 04:33 -0400, Peter L. Berghold wrote:
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Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
I want to host my home page from my computer.
Chaitanya,
There's lots of homework you need to do to answer that one.
First off, you need to set up some sort of web server. If you are going to set up just HTML and maybe some CGI then this can be as simple as going to http://www.apache.org and downloading the latest and most stable version of apache, untaring it, building it, installing it, configuring it, starting it up and putting your pages in the appropriate places.
What's wrong with the ones on the install CD/DVD? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Hi! Am Samstag, 30. April 2005 10:08 schrieb Chaitanya Krishna A:
I want to know where to put my index.html and how to access the web page from the net. I think something like setting up the web server is involved.
To get first results, open Yast > Network > http-server Although 9.1 does not have the http-server-wizard 9.3 has, it should be pretty straight forward to install and set up apache2. The files to host go into /srv/www/htdocs by default. This dir is not available for users by default, you will have to put them in there as root. You can manually start apache2 by opening a console and su, then type rcapache2 start.
What do I need to type in the browser to get to my home page after it is hosted?
Simply type localhost, if you want others to access your site, you have to make sure that you open the port for the http-server in yast > system > firewall. Sven
Thanks guys. Took me a long way. I could set up access to my page. Regards, Chaitanya. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Saturday 30 April 2005 11:08, Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
I want to host my home page from my computer.
All the information you need is there: http://jnana.wikinerds.org/index.php/How_to_setup_a_web_server -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org
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