Server?....

[angeltazman]

hello!.....

good day to u all..... i'm a newbie.....

i have assembled a desktop and then converted it to a server.... i downloaded and installed the programs(apache, mysql, mail server, ftp, phpadmin).....

i'm not sure how things work.....

but, what i plan is to have my own www.mywebsite.com
whats the 1st step to do?..... where do i start?....

i'm kind a lost....

i did some steps on my own, but i'm having some prob.......
i'm able to see my website(www.mywebsite.com), but my mom from the states cannot see my website, unless she types my ip address instead of my website's name...... i dont get it, why is like that?..... :(

please help me.......

[rabidchicken]

If you want to host your own site on this server the first thing you'll have to do is get a static ip address from your ISP or get a service like http://www.dyndns.com/

That website has a ton of info you can read up on to understand how people access websites.

The second step is to register a domain name and have it point to your static ip. Dyndns has a lot of info on that too.

Good luck!

[angeltazman]

If you want to host your own site on this server the first thing you'll have to do is get a static ip address from your ISP or get a service like http://www.dyndns.com/

That website has a ton of info you can read up on to understand how people access websites.

The second step is to register a domain name and have it point to your static ip. Dyndns has a lot of info on that too.

Good luck!

many thanks for ur reply....

i'll give it a try.... ty.... :)

[ati]

Filipino eh?
Hoy pare.
Check this out
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=272080
It helped me a great deal when i first started getting into servers...now you don't even wanna see my power bill ;)

[twoeyes]

port 80 has to be open or you cant host domains

[angeltazman]

Filipino eh?
Hoy pare.
Check this out
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=272080
It helped me a great deal when i first started getting into servers...now you don't even wanna see my power bill ;)


Yup, yup....

thanks for the reply man!....

i did that already, i'm just getting bugs on the softwares i downloaded.... anyways, i'll give it a try again.... i'll try to download other versions.

btw, how do use mercury mail server?.... how do u open the emails u receive?...

sorry for the delay in response, been busy lately..... thank u for ur time?... :)

[ati]

you check your e-mail by using a e-mail progrm such as outlook express.

[angeltazman]

you check your e-mail by using a e-mail progrm such as outlook express.

thanks for ur reply.... :)

aside from using outlook, is there a way to access my mercury/32?... like yahoo or msn type of thing.

i never did like using outlook.... i prefer the web-base type.

thank u for ur time.... hope to hear from u soon... :)

[AMD Phreak]

Have you followed guides for Apache and what not? Those should be good enough to get things up. Have you gotten a test page going yet?


FWIW its good to see another filipino on board!

[angeltazman]

Have you followed guides for Apache and what not? Those should be good enough to get things up. Have you gotten a test page going yet?


FWIW its good to see another filipino on board!


yup, i did everything right.... :)

all is working good, but, i just can't figure out how to view or open my email in web-base approach.... :)

for the mean time, what i do, i just go to www.mail2web.com for me to check my mails.....

thanks for ur time, hope to hear from u soon.

[primuslesler]

i prefer www.no-ip.com
its free and you can have your own sub-domain
my old one was David.servecounterstrike.com
or it could be like blank.myftp.com
blank.noip.com

all it does it let the outside world see your ip address as a string of characters aka your domain or sub-domain :D

[klingens]

You will need an apache install which supports PHP4. Then download and install squirrelmail: www.squirrelmail.org