Tutorial: Setup Your Own Free Self-Hosted Web Server - Page 4

humph · #46 21st August 2008, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Night Fire

What i found out was that its because your in the same network. Try it from outside your network and see if it works. I call my friend and had him try and it showed the apache site. Good Luck

Hey,

I seemed to have that same trouble. So an email to Dyndns confirmed my website was runnning ok. There was a write up about this problem in the support area, see link below
http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/loo...nnections.html
But for some crazy reason this didn't work for me. After some hours of trial and error I used 127.0.0.1
and it worked for me. The browser seemed to have go out of my network and back into the server. I tested it by ticking"work off-line" and it didn't work. Once ticked to work on-line, up came my website.

I hope this is right, and it helps some one else out there.

Also, much appreciated SendDerek for your excellent walk through. I have searched long and wide for this very thing with no avail, till I came across yours.

Humph.

Night Fire · #47 21st August 2008, 04:01 PM

In my case, it was just my router that was causing my issue. I had an old Belkin G. When I found out that some older routers had this Issue I replaced my old one and now have no issues

Thanks for posting info for others..

savage · #48 21st August 2008, 05:08 PM

I've had the same issue, it's because the routers don't forward port 21 on the LAN interface back to the LAN.

The way I worked around it was to run my own LAN DNS server, pointing the domain to the local LAN IPs, anyone on the Internet uses the no-ip DNS servers, and gets my Internet IP, everybody's happy

The only downside is if you have multiple sub-domains, keeping the external and internal DNS sync'd, but personally I use a pretty standard external setup (www. ftp. webmail. etc. etc.), internal gets a bit dodgy, but you can also setup sub-domains only accessible from the internal network doing this.

If you only have a few PCs on your LAN, and don't want your own DNS server, you can always use the hosts file.

runssh · #49 27th August 2008, 05:11 PM

I'm receiving 403 error messages even after linking music directory in appropriate folder. Any reason why that is the case?

ln -s ~/music /var/www/html/music

This /music folder is for a regular user and I've had to perform the symbolic link command as root. I'm not sure if that matters or not. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

UPDATE:

No longer seeing the 403 error message after further modification of the symbolic link, however, I'm not able to see the mp3 files in the /var/www/html/music directory when I load the site on Mozilla.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2008-08-27 11:07 Music -> /home/renato/Music/

Any thoughts?

TIA

krieglock · #50 28th August 2008, 03:04 AM

Okay, well i needed an apache file server so, anyways.

I cannot forward port to my linux machine because i cannot use the Router IP or broadcasting IP blablahblah

Hence this one:

192.168.1.100
192.168.1.255

I tried changing connections to the ports but no luck, i yay close to finalizing the server, just need to open this port.

Also i tried Enabling DMZ Host IP Adress: 192.168.1.100/192.168.1.255

But no luck, any idea on how to change the local computer ip?

Thanks

linuxnuke · #51 19th September 2008, 12:19 PM

Well,
Am I late for the party?
But what do I need to do if I have already had fixed IP with my ISP and my domain name registered?
Thanks in advance.

fed_core9 · #52 23rd October 2008, 03:02 PM

thanks i am now using a server with Fedora and it is nice.

neogranas · #53 17th November 2008, 08:00 PM

Any chance you could write a tutorial for a basic setup of Postfix or Sendmail? I've been working for a few weeks but I always keep tweaking as I go and never undo so I eventually just hose anything I tried, making me have to uninstall it and restart the process.

Edited for:

And possibly instructions for headless servers like mine? I don't have any GUI installed, I do everything through command line.

robert.forster · #54 17th November 2008, 08:13 PM

there are how-to's for postfix.
One has Postfix, Dovecot, spammassassin, clamav, amavisd all rolled in one

neogranas · #55 17th November 2008, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robert.forster

there are how-to's for postfix.
One has Postfix, Dovecot, spammassassin, clamav, amavisd all rolled in one

I have not seen that in the Guides and How-To's forum, could you link it please?

robert.forster · #56 17th November 2008, 08:46 PM

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...hlight=postfix

neogranas · #57 17th November 2008, 09:04 PM

Thank you, though it should be noted that tutorial is rather out of date, it's saying that it was done under Fedora Core 3.

robert.forster · #58 17th November 2008, 09:07 PM

Right....I take most notes with a grain of salt...

Well here is a good time to make a contribution LOL
As I get useful information I post what I have...

trentscott4 · #59 23rd November 2008, 07:58 AM

Great guide! Thanks for the help.

vginov · #60 4th January 2009, 10:35 AM

Dear SendDerek ,

Thanks a lot for your good guidelines for a web server. I need a small help on LDAP. I do not know anything about it. If you know or have some idea please share with us. I installed moodle and i want to configure the login from LDAP. Your guide may be a great help for me. I am using fedora 10 with Thanks in advanced.