[solved] home webserver

[MarkGrieveson]

Hello.  Just wanted to get back to all the wonderful people at Vector Linux to say that I have finally gotten a website together.  It runs from Vector using lighttpd, along with wordpress (php and mysql).  The site is http://www.paralegalmark.com  It's still a work in progress.  Anyway, thanks again to everyone here.

[The Headacher]

Bookmarking this, as I intend to build me a home webserver as well. I never heard of lighttpd, good to know it's out there, since I'll probably be using my old P3 laptop for that purpose, so lighter is better.

I built a web server on a virtual machine some time ago, using the httpd, php and mysql packages from slackware. Worked good enough for my testing purposes. You need to open everything up manually, by default everything is closed. Feels safe, not sure if it really is though.

Ps. I can't reach your website right now.

[sledgehammer]

The site is http://www.paralegalmark.com

Mark,

I tried it at 7:35 PST this morning and it did not connect.  Just said "connecting," but went no further. 

I am most interested in this.

John

[MarkGrieveson]

Nuts!  The firewall must be blocking it.  I set up the internet connection via pppoe-setup, and with this set up a default firewall (called "standalone").  I'll disable this one, and try to get some safety by setting up a modified firewall with vasm.  ....
Okay, that's done.  So, if anyone can now check the site http://www.paralegalmark.com I'd appreciate it. 

[retired1af]

Works fine now.

[MarkGrieveson]

Thanks for letting me know! 

[sledgehammer]

I agree.  Works great!  I would love to figure out how to do this myself.  Perhaps someday, when time permits.

John