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pccarguy91:
I am having some trouble setting up one of my home pc's as either a web or ftp server.  I have:

-an xp pro machine
-a windows 2003 server machine
-03 server is the domain controller, xp machine is joined to domain
-standard dsl service with dejazzd (lancaster, pa)

The xp machine is running ftp services. (firewall configured to allow this) I can reach my ftp server from any pc in the house.

We have 5 pc's in the house all ethernetted to a Linksys befsr41 home router, which in turn connects to our dsl modem.

I used a free trial from nettica.com
web page to provide dns services to my domain.

From the web (at my work) I can ping the free domain name i got from nettica. It shows the ping times out to the ip address i entered for my domain on nettica's site. I dont believe the ping is actually getting to my house.

If anyone has experience setting up a web server with dsl service, please help.

xyle_one:
Well. Did you happen to see the name of the site you just posted at? Just asking...

Anyways. The best thing to do, especially if you are going to be opening up a machine to the world, is install Linux and use apache. Far better than using windows.

Also. Use no-ip.com to handle the dns, they are free. So is dyndns.com

Did you start IIS by the way? and did you forward port 80 to the server?

insomnia:

quote:Originally posted by pccarguy91:

If anyone has experience setting up a web server with dsl service, please help.
--- End quote ---


This will help you:

L*A*M*P

Linux:
http://www.linuxiso.org/

Apache:
http://www.apache.org/

MySQL:
http://www.mysql.com/

PHP/Perl or Python (optional):
http://www.php.net/
http://www.perl.org/
http://www.python.org/


...and it's all free...
 

pccarguy91:
lol....yeah i saw it. I might be the only guy on this site to admit I like both Linux and microsoft. (dont have mucy OSX experience, but im workin on it.) My third pc, redhat 9.0 crapped out, and im still looking for a donor pc to replace it.

I do like apache also, but thats not the issue here. thanks xyle_one for the free dns suggestions, ill check them out.

IIS is started, ( i believe you have to to install ftp services ). Yes, i set up port forwarding in my linksys router to forward all port 21 and 80 requests to the xp machine.

insomnia:  Supposing i did still have my redhat machine with apache on it, what would make it so much easier to have the computer found via dns?

I vageuly remember someone once telling me that you could use one of those free website services, and use perl scripting on your free website to point to your home machine?

Is this credible at all? Ive got vb experience, no perl. More detailed advice regarding the perl suggestion would be appreciated.

thanx guys

xyle_one:
I highly recommend using Linux. Enough fanboy spamming. If you still cannot view your site, then something is wrong. Maybe your ISP blocks port 80. Many do. Change the port that your webserver listens on to 8000, that could fix it. Or it could be a firewall blocking your server from the web. What is the domain name?

I dont like windows. It just doesnt work well for me, and because I have sworn of windows, I really do not know IIS. SO I will not be able to help that much.

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