Host a Website?

Optimistic · #1 2nd July 2004, 06:35 PM

So I'm a n00b, please forgive me.

I'm interested in hosting a website on my computer (mostly text based stuff for my students). I have no idea how to do this, well, aside from all the HTML/JAVA/CGI/ programing of course. Is there a tutorial that you could point me to?

I'm running Fedora Core 2 on a pretty decent machine (2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, etc).
I have a fast internet conection--at least fast enough for the low traffic that I expect.

Any advice?

Thank you in advance, you guys and gals are great!

marks_linux · #2 2nd July 2004, 07:18 PM

you need a static IP address to allow people to view pages from your webserver. (most ISPs don't give static IP addresses unless you are a business user) If you don't have this then check out something like http:///www.dyndns.com who offer some free services for giving you a virtual static ip address.

On your machine you wil nedd a web server tunnning such as apache, this may already be installed - just look in services for httpd and if its there start it - otherwise download apache or install from the Fedora disks.

You will also need to change the security on your firewall to allow http access (redhat button > Ssytem Settings > security level)

should get you started!

Mark

ghenry · #3 2nd July 2004, 11:12 PM

Save all your files in /var/www/html and point your browser to 127.0.0.1 and you should see the pages to test.

Let us know what stage you are at so we can help more.

Optimistic · #4 3rd July 2004, 04:11 AM

1. I installed Appache (httpd) from my Fedora disks.
2. I registered a domain name and got the script for the virtual static ip address from dynu.com, but when I tried to run the script I got this error:

./dynubasic: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thank you for all of your help.

ghenry · #5 3rd July 2004, 04:18 AM

Make sure you have this RPM installed:

compat-libstdc++

Code:

apt-get install compat-libstdc++

or

Code:

yum install compat-libstdc++

Optimistic · #6 3rd July 2004, 05:04 AM

Thanks ghenry--I got the libraries and DNYU runs fine so far as I can tell.

I get this error from the DYNU site:
Domain Info:

*** Can't find server name for address 209.98.205.184: Non-existent domain
Server: UnKnown
Address: 209.98.205.184

Is this an Apache thing? I haven't doe anything with it yet.

marks_linux · #7 3rd July 2004, 08:18 AM

Is your firewall set to allow web access?

I can ping the IP address you listed in your previous post.

Optimistic · #8 3rd July 2004, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marks_linux

Is your firewall set to allow web access?

I can ping the IP address you listed in your previous post.

Yep, sure is.
Perhaps the DNYU script isn't doing its job.

ghenry · #9 3rd July 2004, 11:30 AM

is your reverse dns setup?

Code:

host 209.98.205.184

ghenry · #10 3rd July 2004, 11:33 AM

Code:

host 209.98.205.184
Host 184.205.98.209.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

I forgot, I can test that myself. You need to beable to resolve the domain name?

Anyone, it this right?

Isn't this what we are trying to do? I am a bit tired

blammo · #11 3rd July 2004, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Optimistic

Yep, sure is.
Perhaps the DNYU script isn't doing its job.

Good point! Log into your account at DNYU and update your IP address manually. If it works, then the update script your using is hosed.

blammo · #12 3rd July 2004, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghenry

Code:

host 209.98.205.184
Host 184.205.98.209.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

I forgot, I can test that myself. You need to beable to resolve the domain name?

Anyone, it this right?

Isn't this what we are trying to do? I am a bit tired

The registrar's DNS settings have to point to the DNYU name servers, right? Then the script updates to DNYU the current IP address of the computer. I think this is how it works. I'm not tired, but I've had about 9 beers. Is this right?

gdude · #13 16th July 2004, 06:20 AM

I get a similar message when I log into Dynu.com and check my "curretn status":

Domain Info:

*** Can't find server name for address 209.98.205.184:
Non-existent domain
Server: UnKnown
Address: 209.98.205.184

Note that the address is the same as the one as Optimistic gets when he checks his own Dynu account. It looks to me like my Dynu basic clien is working, and Dynu.com has the correct IP for me, so it seems it is updating properly.

Is this a problem on the Dynu side?

Can anyone help me?

Does anyone know what a working account looks like when you check the current status?