Hosting Site MySelf

[linuxluis]

Hello my linux buddies.

I have a question for you guys. I have 3 magines 2 of them are linux boxes and 1 of them is win98..

The first box i have has 2 network cards, and the other 2 only have one. I would like to setup my linux box to host my site. How do I do this and what do i have to load on my linux box. I know that one of them are has to be a firewall and the other one is a httpd server. So what do I need to read or learn. Just to let you guys know my 2 linux boxs are red hat 7.1

THank you ;-)

tux :D

[Keyser Soze]

It would be preferable to have a separate machine for firewall and one for web serving, you want to limit your firewall machine to security only so that it is less vulnerable. Since you will be hosting a site, expect to get much attention from script kiddies.

[linuxluis]

Thank you for helping me out. Well I was going to use 1 machine for my firewall and my other machine for my http server. But what do i need to know so i could host my site, and do i have to learn ipchains or iptable. I'm new to the linux world.


Thank

tux :)

[posterboy]

It's best to have the firewall up and running. Then put Apache on the second machine, with port 80 open. You will need a domain name properly pointed to your IP address. If you have a static (or nearly static) IP, this can be done at many places, I use granitecanyon.com for this purpose. After that, do the html, and it's on the air.
Ray