In message <snip by moderator>, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I too would like to allow access from the Internet to my web >server, at some time in the future, but I really don't have a clue as >to how to go about it.
I don't know about that, I wouldn't want to do it for security reasons. I allow users across an intranet to access the pages - this is just as though they were reaching a site on the web, except that all the data is kept in-house. For security! >Do I need to sign up to one of those dynamic ip web sites. I don't >have a domain name and to be honest, I don't think I really need one >until I am more proficient at secure PHP coding. I would expect that you could allow users on to your machine, if you had a fixed IP address for your internet connection. Certainly around here, that is quite difficult to get. But as I said, it's not something that I would get into. >I have another machine which I could set up with linux, but it only >has about 256 megs of ram and an 80 gig HD. Is this sufficient for >older version of linux and are older versions of linux as secure as >modern ones? Sounds like a lot of trouble, when you could get a domain name for less than $10, and sometimes free ad-supported hosting - do Godaddy have PHP and MySQL on their free packages? - or paid hosting at less than $5 per month. On my server, I can set up domains without a domain name (useful if the domain is already working on another host, prior to being moved). >I also read somewhere that it is good practice to have the db on a >different computer, both because of security and also because if the >db becomes too big, it's much faster. Again, is this correct? When I worked for lots of banks, we had the databases on the same servers, for security. Less "boundaries" to protect, and no raw data was being passed between servers. That was a few years ago. -- Pete Clark Sunny Andalucia http://hotcosta.com/Andalucia.Spain