From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 21:43:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F370D16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from web1.hostrack.com (unknown [63.105.72.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34E543D2D for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:43:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stevei@black-star.net) Received: (qmail 23245 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2004 05:44:38 -0000 Received: from adslbt49.cofs.net (HELO altair) (66.77.169.49) by web1.hostrack.com with SMTP; 9 Mar 2004 05:44:38 -0000 Message-ID: <020a01c40599$8d1cda30$1a01a8c0@blackstar.net> From: "Steve Ireland" To: References: <200403090309.i2939lS19698@pop-6.dnv.wideopenwest.com> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 00:44:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Subject: Re: web server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 05:43:30 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blain M Gatterdam" To: Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 22:09 Subject: web server > Hello, > > > > Is it possible to turn my pc into a web server? I would like to > make it so that certain people can remotely access my computer and edit the > web-page (s). is this possible or can I do something like it? If so, im a > newbie so I would need step by step information on how to achieve this. I am > running an AMD athlon xp 2500+ on an asus a7n8x motherboard with 256mb of > ddr ram and a geforce4 graphics accelerator, with a 80gig western digital > partitioned to 20 gigs for my FreeBSD.. Thank you! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, Certainly you can do that! Although, if you're doing it over the Internet from a non-business connection, it would depend on your ISP's AUP/TOS ;-). You don't mention which server you're thinking of running. Apache is the most common and is very easy to learn. Check out http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ for the tried and true 1.3.x branch or http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ for the "new technology" branch. Whichever server you decide to use, think, "Security, security, security." You wouldn't want to discover that the Visigoths left a turd in your punchbowl when you weren't looking. Regards, Steve