From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 12:36:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20869 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:36:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20776 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA11950; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:32:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:32:37 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Leif Neland cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a personal web server on the net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 17 Jan 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > At 17 Jan 98 06:03:23 Ash Yadav wrote regarding Setting up a personal web > server on the net > > AY> Hi Folks, > AY> I have got free bsd up and running at home for the past 2 weeks. > AY> The next step for me > AY> is to setup a webserver on the net ie. run a webserver from my > AY> home . I would appreciate > > Why would you do such a thing? Are you connected 24h/day? Will your isp call > you, when somebody want to access your site? You can use your webserver to test > stuff, but then have your pages at a server at your isp. > Perhaps you can put your server in their room? :-) There are a number of reasons why one might want to do such a thing. In fact why he want to do it is his own business, but he will in any case learn a good deal about installing and configuring a web server and its logs, which one would not learn from simply serving one's pages at the ISP. Must it really be up 24 hours a day? Someone who now has a dedicated machine serving web pages originally started with a home web server that was up only during the night (U.S. Eastern). I'm not sure the robots indexed it; for those using a search engine, assuming it got indexed, it would be useful to have it say up front that it's only up during specific hours. On the question of the connection--I think the connection sought here is ppp, and of course a fixed IP address would be preferrable to one dynamically assigned. Also on "router or firewall," the idea of a firewall is to keep people out, so it shouldn't be a firewall. It is useful to remember that a machine connected by ppp to the Internet really is "on" the Internet and is vulnerable--all users should have good passwords and so should root. When an IP address is dynamically assigned, how do interested people find the server, assuming it's up and running? I think it would be interesting to determine from the logs how heavy a load a web server can accomodate over a single phone line and therefore how it should be ideally set up. Annelise