[Bait]

Ok some of you may remember when I was trying to set up a windows box to be used as a Web server well I have ditched that idea and now we are going to try it on a Linux box . Now I have the Linux box setup and it has all the packages installed for a Server (I am using Red Hat 9 yes I know fedora is better we just dont have it)
So My question is
Now that I have the box setup with Linux on it how do I configure it to start handling
FTP and HTTP and DNS also I have port fowarding enabled on my router so everything should come directly to this machine.

Ok anyway thanks for your time and all help
as always is appreciated have a good day

[Bait]

ok maybe I should have gone into more detail

Ok I have it set up as a server what I want to know is once I hook it up and send all traffic to it is it automatically just accept FTP transfers and everything else that a Server is supposed to? Could someone explain in LAYMENS terms to me how to setup Linux as a server in a step by step form cause I have read LinuxHelp chat and other rooms and no one can explain it to me I have also read alot of documentation on this subject but yet learned nothing I am just not understanding

[dago]

Check this link
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/ISP-Setup-RedHat-HOWTO.html

There's a PDF version too
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...dHat-HOWTO.pdf

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by Bait

(I am using Red Hat 9 yes I know fedora is better we just dont have it)

Who says Fedora is Better than RH9?

If you installed Apache during the install, your document root for your webserver should be /var/www/html. Throw an index.html file in there and access your servers ip address from a web browser on another machine.

You can see if apache is acutally running by doing a ps -ax at a shell prompt.

I personally do not use FTP. I would ditch it and have everyone use SSH. SSH is much more secure than FTP. See if you have sshd running when you do your ps -ax.