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[Harold Hallikainen]

>
> On Fri, April 7, 2006 10:27 pm, Harold Hallikainen said:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, April 7, 2006 9:29 pm, Bret Stern said:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have FC4 running reliably on a nice Dell server
>>>>> behind a good firewall.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to stop my ISP from hosting my site
>>>>> and let my static ip (one of five i have) server
>>>>> host my web site.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems straight forward.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. I need to change my configuration at Internic
>>>>>    to point to my servers.
>>>>
>>>> DNS: Are you going to write your own or have them do it. Some
>>>> registrars
>>>> won't point to a host outside their hosting pool. I pay my ISP a
>>>> couple
>>>> bucks a month extra to secondary my DNS entries. They hit mine 3 times
>>>> a
>>>> day
>>>> and as long as I update the 'serial' in my entries, I'm good to go.
>>>> Search
>>>> for DNS HOWTO, or NAMED HOWTO for help.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. I need to modify my httpd.conf file.
>>>>
>>>> Very true. If Apache is running, just point your browser at localhost
>>>> and
>>>> you're on your way.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there any other suggestions. Recommended
>>>>> setup in httpd.conf??
>>>>
>>>> Wow, that's a book. Please be specific with requests, hopefully one
>>>> per
>>>> email, as you go along and hit the inevitable bumps. Some things
>>>> you'll
>>>> probably end up doing is VirtualHosts and security/login sites, etc.
>>>> This
>>>> isn't rocket science, but it can get hairy with the different versions
>>>> of
>>>> HTTPD.
>>>>
>>>> As long as you're at it, look into fetchmail, or just using your host
>>>> as
>>>> the
>>>> email server, too. That cleans up the MX records at the DNS server. If
>>>> you
>>>> do, take a hard look at bogofilter or spamassassin, plus clamav for
>>>> virus
>>>> protection. You could look at them anyway if you are going to use
>>>> fetchmail,
>>>> which is pretty simple to use. Redundancy is good for spam and virus
>>>> filtering.
>>>>
>>>> HTH more than confuses.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm pretty much doing what you're proposing
>>> (http://www.hallikainen.org).
>>> I started slow and built stuff up over the years.
>>>
>>> I'm running a Linksys BEFSR81 router between the DSL and the LAN. I
>>> have
>>> it forwarding ports for http, ssh, smtp, and ssl to the FC4 machine.
>>> I'm
>>> using sendmail for sending and receiving email (relaying it through my
>>> ISPs smtp server). I'm using Apache for web serving. I'm using dovecot
>>> as
>>> the  IMAP server. I'm using SquirrelMail as my webmail client. These
>>> are
>>> all included with FC4.
>>>
>>> Mostly I go through the config files making small modifications in the
>>> hopes of getting stuff to do what I want. Before modifying a config, I
>>> cp
>>> it to filename.HH.1 where 1 changes with each revision and HH is a flag
>>> so
>>> I can easily find modified configs.
>>>
>>> One of the changes I made in Apache config is to put the document root
>>> at
>>> /home/harold/public_html instead of /var/www or wherever it defaults.
>>> That
>>> makes it easy for me to make changes without becoming root.
>>>
>>> For DNS, I'm using http://www.dns2go.com. I told Networks Solutions to
>>> use
>>> the DNS2go servers for my dns. dns2go is designed to provide dns
>>> services
>>> to people with dynamic IP addresses (both you and I have static). Even
>>> though I have a static IP, I'm running the dns2go script so it knows my
>>> server's IP address. This came in handy a couple years ago when I
>>> moved. I
>>> pulled the server from home and put it in my office for a few weeks. No
>>> one knew the difference. The IP address changed as appropriate. When I
>>> got
>>> DSL in our new home, I moved the server there, plugged it in, and it
>>> was
>>> on line. Real simple!
>>>
>>> So... I suggest just start messing with it. Decide what service you
>>> want
>>> to get working first. Keep banging on it until it works. Ask questions
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> Harold
>>
>>
>> One more thing to try is webmin. I think you can use yum to install it.
>> As
>> root, type yum install webmin. Then go to https://localhost:10000 and
>> login as root. Lots of config stuff available there, including Apache.
>
> Harold, your help is great. But (isn't that always one? I'm the Butt
> here),
> Webmin hammers the config files. Not in a bad way, but if you want the
> commented files, forget it. All the comments are stripped out. Frankly,
> once
> you get familiar with things, that's not bad either. Since I'm a
> command-line geek, I use vi to modify httpd.conf, etc. AND, the worst job
> of
> removing comments I've seen to date is in smb.conf (Samba). Maybe webmin
> doesn't mess with httpd.conf? I do use webmin for a bunch of stuff, like
> running my custom scripts for cleaning up my spamfilter rules. One nice
> thing about webmin is the ssh front end. I've removed it from webmin and
> made it so it doesn't run in the browser, too. Nice tool. Rambling here.
> Time to go to bed.
>
> Karl
>
>

Thanks for the comments! I haven't used webmin much. I've mostly just
looked around. Hopefully I didn't delete all my config file comments. I
have thus far edited config files using pico (which comes with pine).

So... maybe it's best to stick to just editing the files with a text
editor. Generally the comments in the config files are very good and
enough to figure out what's going on.

Harold

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