chils69145 wrote: > I am wanting to set up a home webserver on a pIII 500. What would be > the easiest linux distro to use for this and is it very hard to do? > Thanks > > >
I am using OpenBSD, which is not Linux, but is UNIX, and quite similar to Linux. If you have never set up a server before, there are some things you will have to study up on. Serving web pages with Apache is fairly easy, just go to apache.org and read up on how to configure the Apache web server. Setting up sendmail to handle my email was considerably trickier, but I got it up and running after a few days reading various on-line tutorials. Rather than being distro-related, setting up a server is more a matter of how you choose the applications you are going to install. In my opinion, the less you have running, the better, especially when you are new to the task, and not sure what you are doing. I chose OpenBSD over a Linux distro for my servers, because it is a very bare-bones install, and is known for being very secure in its default installation state. Being a newbie server administrator, I wanted the most secure-by-default setup possible, so that my ignorance would not be too great a danger to me. The more I learn (2 servers on-line for about 10 months, now), the more I realise that I made a good decision. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
