[plug] #2 Website - Linux newbie

[Paul Dean]

Hya Wayne,

Developing Web skills, I assume you mean surfing and email.
If so then setting up your machine with a workstation install will allow
you use email and browsers and dialup to connect to the web. Couple this
with a standard internet account, like $24.95 per month style, will be
fine.

Web hosting is slightly different, you can run this from your machine by
doing a workstation install and once setup then installing Apache as
your web server. you then can use vi or emacs or some text editor to
write your web pages, put them in the httpd(apache) home dir(for RedHat
/var/www) and you can view it via your web browser. You will need some 
sort of internet account whether dialup or perm, this will depend on your level
of Web Presence, for people you want to see your web site.

Other services can be installed to enhance your web site depending how
involved you wish to become.

Hope this helps.


On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, wayne wrote:

> Q.
> I need to develop Web skills and would like to host a very modest
> Website.  What are the minimum (services) I need to get?  From where?  And
> cost?  (eg I need a static IP address - from Telstra? An ISP dial-in
> account? etc.)  In other words what are the necessary steps to the process
> before the configuration becomes important?
> 
> Any recommendations on Supplier (techniques and cost) & Linux configuration
> welcome.
> 
> Maybe we could have a comment from each who has done this successfully?
> 
> Any comments gratefully accepted.
> 
> Regards to all,
> wayne
> 
> 

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