Web Hosting

[cmoughan]

Hey Guys (and gals?),
I currently have a website being hosted by a regular hosting compnay. I want to do the hosting myself. I installed Fedora on a PC, the website is up. ( I can surf it localdomain). What is my next step. I have a static IP I can use. How do I get the www to look to my IP for my website?



Thanks!!

Chris

[TomWilliams]

Same reason I ever picked up the linux discs and installed them too!

Have you worked any with apache server?

This is how you will serve content, I suggest starting with http://httpd.apache.org or with any HOWTOs you find on apache, that's how I learned. For the getting the internet to forward requests specifically to you... that I'm still learning, but I'll see if I can confuse you further.

Option: Go with a hosting company that does IP forwarding (or something like it). Essentially somebody goes to www.yourdomain.com and hit's the host's IP server, who then redirects the request to your IP address.

Option: DNS. Setting up the box or another box as a DNS server and then setting it up as an authoratative nameserver. This is where it gets deep, and since I am still learning just how deep it is, I can say that it appears to be the most inexpensive (yet worrysome, and difficult) way to accomplish getting your domain available to the world.

[LinuxFreak]

Dear cmoughan,
Hello,

Setup your DNS Server or use third pary DNS server Refer to below Links.

http://www.linuxpakistan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=726
http://www.dyndns.org

Best Regards.