Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:02:07 -0700 From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com To: dv8@ctcweb.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: personal server Message-ID: <OF19F20502.04D55600-ON88256BB1.00676C2E-88256BB1.00689CFC@simrad.no>
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owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 05/06/2002 11:13:25 AM: > I'm just wondering if you can help me with a problem. > I would like to set up my own server from my own business. I don't know > how to do this and my ISP is not willing to tell me. (I wonder why). > Perhaps you know the steps to take other than a domain name and > configuring a server. I do not want to rent memory from another computer > outside my own building. > > Thank you > Dennis > valence_enterprises@hotmail.com You don't specify what kind of 'server' you want to set up, but you do mention you contacted your isp, so I am assuming you are interested in a web server. If so, apache is in the freebsd ports, which means installation is easy. Configuring will depend on your needs, and you would do good to buy a book on apache, of which there are many to choose from. You will also want to set up a machine to use as a firewall between your web server and the internet. Alternatives would be a router/firewall device or installing the firewall on the web server. Probably the best route is a machine dedicated to firewall and a second machine dedicated to web serving. This type of set up is quite common amoung *nix'ers and hobbiests. Check out apache.org at http://httpd.apache.org/ as well as http://www.freebsd.org/. Hope this helps, -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services Simrad, Inc www.simradusa.com chip.wiegand@simrad.com "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 (They why do I have 9? Somebody help me!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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