From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 12: 1:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.simrad.no (mail.simrad.no [193.69.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8BF37B41D; Mon, 6 May 2002 12:01:29 -0700 (PDT) From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Subject: Re: personal server To: dv8@ctcweb.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Build M12_02042002 Pre-release 1 February 04, 2002 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:02:07 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on S_INET01/S_EXT(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 06.05.2002 21:02:11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 05/06/2002 11:13:25 AM: > I'm just wondering if you can help me with a problem. > I would like to set up my own server from my own business. I don't know > how to do this and my ISP is not willing to tell me. (I wonder why). > Perhaps you know the steps to take other than a domain name and > configuring a server. I do not want to rent memory from another computer > outside my own building. > > Thank you > Dennis > valence_enterprises@hotmail.com You don't specify what kind of 'server' you want to set up, but you do mention you contacted your isp, so I am assuming you are interested in a web server. If so, apache is in the freebsd ports, which means installation is easy. Configuring will depend on your needs, and you would do good to buy a book on apache, of which there are many to choose from. You will also want to set up a machine to use as a firewall between your web server and the internet. Alternatives would be a router/firewall device or installing the firewall on the web server. Probably the best route is a machine dedicated to firewall and a second machine dedicated to web serving. This type of set up is quite common amoung *nix'ers and hobbiests. Check out apache.org at http://httpd.apache.org/ as well as http://www.freebsd.org/. Hope this helps, -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services Simrad, Inc www.simradusa.com chip.wiegand@simrad.com "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 (They why do I have 9? Somebody help me!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message