On 12/9/05, Chad Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy. Was thinking about hosting a web site at home on an old 400 P2 > pentium I have laying around the house. Figured it would be a good way to > futher my newbian knowedge of linux since I am primarly a > Windows/AS400/Cisco guy. Would probably load up some sort of lean distro > and run apache. Few questions though. > > 1. What is good software used to host a photos that you can browse easily.
I wrote my own perl script some years ago to create thumbnails from large original photos and it kicks out a html page as well. An example out the output from this script is: http://tbcorp.homeip.net/brown.net/pr/index.html If you want the script I'll e-mail it to you or put it on my website somewhere where you can right click and download. > 2. Good software for bloggs (doubt I will do blogging but figured I may as > well ask) I've used drupal for about two years now. The only reason I selected this software was I wanted a blog and I sat next to Mark Turner who already had one and after about a two second "over the cube wall" talk I had drupal downloaded. I hear good things about MovableType as well. > 3. Is a 400 P2 128 megs of ram good enough for a lightly traveled web > site. Will not run a GUI to conserve resources. Is this enough horse power > to MySQL/PHP. I might though togather a VERY basic dynamic web site just to > tinker and learn PHP(if I can find time). Yup. You'll have fun with PHP/Mysql. Truly good stuff there. I am now trying to wrap AJAX around PHP and Mysql for some geeky goodness. > 4. Any issues with doing such a thing with Road Runner. I haven't had any. RR has been great. > 5. What dynamic DNS service to you all use or is buying a static IP address > cheaper? dyndns.org is what I use for my beach and home network. My dyndns client runs on my M0n0wall firewall though. > 6. What distro of linux would you use for a project of this nature? Debian. Get the Sarge network install CD. For a beginner I would stick with Debian (or maybe Ubuntu.. but for a server I'd still go with Debian). If you were to install a base system from network install and you wanted to add something, like PHP, it is as simple as the following commands: su - (to get to root) apt-get install php No RPMs, no dependency issues to stress about.. it's all good (and simple). Greg > > Any opinions would be much appreciated. > > Thains! > > Chad > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
