Just something to note: Some cable providers are now blocking ports due
to the rash of virii out there. Check to make sure that your's isn't one
of them.
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Bill wrote:
> Hi all ... in another moment of insanity I have decided to try my
> hand at putting up a smallish web server. I have a p-200 with 192 m
> ram and about 12 g of HD with a fairly fast cable modem hooked to it.
>
> Primarily I want to run http serving dynamic pages via PHP.
> Firewalling is provided by my router. I want SSH / VNC available so I
> can manage the machine in a headless state remotely / securely (more
> or less). I have a cable modem connection so I have to keep my
> traffic load down.
>
> What I am looking for are software / partitioning recommendations ...
> especially from those who may have set up similar systems. The
> principle function of this server is to train me ... the secondary
> function will be to serve up mildly interesting pages to the dull and
> boring urban organic gardeners such as myself while meeting the
> design requirements of an html class requiring HTML, DHTML, CSS and
> some XML
>
> Let me know your thoughts, if you would. I am especially foggy about
> how much (little) I need to install to have remote X capabilities. Or
> if I even need X on the server box at all. The little voices in my
> head tell me I don't.
>
> I will not be creating the pages on this machine but will ftp them
> from my main box just as I would to a commercially hosted account.
>
> TIA,
> Bill
> --
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1545352 1513520 31832 0 152824 1079624
> Swap: 401584 1532 400052
> Total: 1946936 1515052 431884
> Linux a.genesis.com 2.4.14 #3 Fri Nov 9 23:14:31 EST 2001 K7 750MHz
> 7:17pm up 2 days, 20:31, 4 users, load average: 0.54, 0.38, 0.38
>
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