newbie Webmin

[LunarEagle]

I have fedora core 4 linux installed and webmin. I want to serve my webpages so people on a LAN can access them by going to "http://name.net/" How do I do it? I have started apache and BIND DNS Server.

[originel]

I'm not very familiar with how fedora deals with hosts, but you need to make sure your machine has it's hostname set. Also make sure that your httpd.conf file is set correctly. There is a line in there that allows you to set the hostname...it's usually commented out by default and it tries to get its hostname from the main system. Configure however you please...I usually set the hostname in the httpd.conf file.

[VHockey86]

If you are accessing it via the lan, you wont need the .net extension, you can just have "http://mybox"

Just curious, what are you using a DNS server for? Is this serving as part of a domain as well?

[LunarEagle]

Actualy I swiched to Suse 9.3 Fedora was giving me problems.

Do I only need Apache server and not a DNS server to do this? I am new at this so my questions may sound low on intellect

[VHockey86]

If all you want to do is serve web pages, then apache is all you need.

I just installed Suse 9.3 a couple days ago and haven't gotten around to setting up apache, but from the looks of it there is a wizard in the YaST2 control panel thing under network services.

[LunarEagle]

Ok, thanks. I will probably check that out this week sometime.

[LunarEagle]

I am looking in Yast and I dont see anything that says Apache wizard or Apache sever o anything. Which one is it?

[VHockey86]

Should be "HTTP Server" under Network Services

[LunarEagle]

I do not see that one. I see: DHCP Server, DNS Server, DNS and Host Name, Host names, Kerberos Client, LDAP Client, Mail Transfer Agent, NFS Client, NFS Server, NIS Client, NIS Server, NTP Client, Network Services (xinetd), Proxy, Remote Administration, Routing, TFTP Server.

[VHockey86]

hmm, strange, Have you installed apache?