LinuX Help

drag0n

Hi, I was wondering if any would please help me out with hosting my site on Red Hat Linux. If someone has the time please help me walk through everything. I know this sounds newbish, but i really dunt wanna pay for all those set up fees for hosts, so I really want to host on my own comp, so please ANYONE can help me?

greg252

You sure you wanna get into that?
I pay about $15 per month, and knowing what I know about hosting, it is well worth it.
Keep in mind, hosting companies are secure, do daily backups, have power conditioners, UPS, climate control and when something breaks- they fix it quickly.

Not to mention, you have to have a great connection to the net to be able to handle all of the traffic that you will get. I hear that Comcast limits bandwidth, plus, no static IP... Even the business class service guarantees IP for 6 months (last time I checked).

If you still want to move ahead. Write back and I can at least get you started.

Best of Luck.
Greg

drag0n

What hosts do you use? And if it isnt too much trouble, maybe you can still walk me through everything, since I really wanted the excitement of hosting my own domain =). Thanks for responding to my post. =)

greg252

I use webhostit.com. Tell Brandy that "Greg From MidloSearch Sent Ya'".

I have yet to have a problem that wasn't my fault.

As for setting up the server...
Install the OS with the RPM's that you want- Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and such. I'm not sure what ships with RH8, but you may want to d/l newer versions and re-build with options.
Am I over your head yet? (please let me know).

Edit the apache config file to enable PHP and test using Localhost as URL.

Once you get that working, let me know.

drag0n

i got Apache working
idont know about PHP yet, but I installed php and mysql
also BIND and PostFIX and ProFTPD

greg252

Found this:
"
ls -l /etc/httpd/modules/php
This should return
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1411541 Sep 3 05:26 /etc/httpd/modules/libphp4.so
libphp4.so is the compiled php module for Apache. So the module is there, but Apache can't see it. Now you just need to tell Apache

Where it is, and
How to recognize php files.
You do that by adding two lines to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (you'll have to be root)

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

Place this right after the last
LoadModule line in the file. This tells Apache, of course, to load Php.

Then, add this line:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

This tells Apache to hand files that end in .php to the Php interpreter.

Then, stick your files (say, myfile.php) in /var/www/html, and load them up at localhost/myfile.php.
"
Not responsible for info, just something I found.
Also, edit httpd.conf, find the line with index pages and add index.php.

NEXT?!?