Tutorial: Setup Your Own Free Self-Hosted Web Server

[koperry]

I have been able to get everything up and running with relative ease. I set up a wordpress site that is easily visible from the web but when someone tries to register they never get the email that send them a temp password. Do I need to set something up in sendmail, open port 25 in firewall, port forward 25 in router or all three?

Thanks in advance!

[biggied]

I am also having the problem that my domain is forwarded to my router login - not my webpages.

Could this have anything to do with me running Fedora in VMWare?

[Night Fire]

What i found out was that its because your in the same network. Try it from outside your network and see if it works. I call my friend and had him try and it showed the apache site. Good Luck

[biggied]

For some reason, i was being forwarded to another host - router. I setup everything again and it's working fine.

[tinak]

Wow! Awesome guide! Thank you very much, I did this just for the fun of setting something like this up... you made it to easy

[robert.forster]

your tutorial is fairly easy to follow for it is ALMOST impossible to have a perfect one for there will always be someone that will misinterpret something along the line (is the glass half full or half empty).
OTHERWISE IT IS GREAT..thank you for the contribution to the community.
that is what makes Open Source great!!

One thing that might be a good thing to append to your already gret tutorial:
SOME providers (ISPs) block port 80 and 25. With that in mind dyndns.org and I am sure a few others has what they call webhop the service (which is free with dyndns.org) provides you the ability to change the port for your web from 80 to 8000 or 8080 and not need to explain it to others. Lamens terms:
when you got to your website www.yours.net defaults to www.yours.net:80 without tell it. if your provider blocks port 80, no one will be able to get to your forum or website. So you must change the port to lets say 8000. that means you would have to educate everyone HOW to get to your website hence http://www.yours.net:8000/
using the webhop you dont need to you just put in the appropriate values on their site (need to think a little outside of the box thinking) and your good
just a FYI

[Zero-Override]

i've set up a LOT of webservers before but tried the toturial and must say it works like a charm! it's extremely easy to follow and get into and allows for users to have the basic stuff running so they can mess about with it and start learning more advanced things from there!!

kudo's on the tutorial

[huklBerry]

Thank You. The linux firewall setup step in your tutorial is skipped in every other tutorial and apache help page I found on the web. I know it's a noob thing to miss but still.

[hermouche]

Hy all there,

This is a Great tutorial SenDerek, Thanks.
What might change in your tutorial if i want to use it on an Intranet. I am in an institution where we want to setup a web site just for the local personnel (INTRANET).
The web server will got i guess two NIC'c, one for the LAN and the other for the WAN !!

Thanks

red

[dstaver]

SendDerek thanks for your guide for setting up the ftp server.
I have followed it (tried) but I can't log into my ftp server.
I must have done something so stupid even I can't think of it, so if someone can point me to a guide for debugging ftp servers when something goes wrong, that would help a lot.

I have tried all sorts of options in vsftpd.config to no avail (user_list, no user_list, anonymous, etc).
My local http server works fine and I opened ports on my router and Fedora-8 firewall in like manner for ftp, but no go.

thanks,
Dan

[dstaver]

I should also add I use dyndns for my web server and that works fine. I didn't think I needed to do anything for ftp, so I didn't.
Is that an issue, also?

[marcrblevins]

Do you have port 20 & 21 open for your ftp server with system-config-firewall?
Can you login anonymous with no issues?

[marcrblevins]

Do you have these in your /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file?

# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES

[dstaver]

Yes, I have opened both ports 20 & 21 (using system-config-firewall).
Also, I have the following lines in my vsftpd.config file: (hope this helps)
anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
dual_log_enable=YES
xferlog_file=/var/log/xferlog
xferlog_std_format=YES
idle_session_timeout=600
data_connection_timeout=1200
ftpd_banner=Welcome to ftp service.
listen=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd

userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd/user_list


log_ftp_protocol=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
port_enable=YES
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_promiscuous=NO
pasv_min_port=1024
pasv_max_port=1044
syslog_enable=YES
secure_email_list_enable=YES
hide_ids=YES

[dstaver]

Hello oh patient ones,

After many trials (but not enough) here are further questions:

1) I can access ftp server from web only via the ip address (presently ftp://75.70.244.42), but not via domain name (ftp.tavetech.com) but my web site can be reached via domain name (www.tavetech.com)?
(forwarding via dyndns)

2) Anonymous ftp works (with secure email address list), but I cannot get local users to login at all using option:

local_enable=YES

Any suggestions?

thanks,
Dan