Yes, Mandrake has some excellent security features that make it quiet easy to do..
I have been using 7.2 on many servers as mail, web and dns servers with never a problem. your hardware is fine, and I have run websites from much slower systems. your method of doing things is rather strange. why use Me as the gateway? The way I would do it, is to make a gateway linux box. put a firewall on it with everything you don't need open closed. Setup NAT (internet sharing) so that all machines can access the web. Then use port forwarding to forward port 80 from the gateway machine, to port 80 of your internal IP web server.. I have done that, we have servers using SSL, scripts, java and other stuff all on different ports and all using port forwarding.. it works great, and its nice and secure.. (doesn't hurt that it makes the network hard to figure out when you are on the outside of it either, (ie a script kiddie.) you can use ipmasqadm or IPTABLES to do your forwarding, I have always used ipmasqadm, but I am about to try it with IPTABLES,,, dunno how I will go yet. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of magnet Sent: Monday, 5 November 2001 1:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I host a website? > On November 4, 2001 11:42 am, magnet wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I am hoping to get ADSL installed here soon, but was wondering how I can > > get my Linux boxs to host a website? > > There are 6 identical machines running Mandrake 8.0, all networked with > > 100mbps ethernet cards. There is also an ethernet connection to the Win ME > > laptop, which currently acts as the gateway. > > Each linux boxs has a 1.2Ghz Athlon, 256MB memory and a 20Gb HDD. > > I'm sure the spec will be ok, but I need some pointers or advice about how > > to set it up so users typing my URL will connect to this machine via the > > internet. I have been told that my ADSL connection will be a dynamically > > assigned IP so what problems/solutions will i encounter? > > As long as you are using dhcp you will not be able to host a website! The > URL you choose must resolve to a static IP address. Check your "Terms and > Conditions", your ADSL provider may not allow you to host a website at all > (them using dhcp is a pretty good hint that they do not...!) > > Richie Thanks Richie for the reply. My isp gives me a little webspace, but not enough for our needs. I could let them host the website domain name with a redirect to here tho? The user would probably not even see the redirect happening unless they have a terrible connection speed. I could use a script at this end to update the redirect script with the IP assigned to me and a mask on the url to still show the user our domain name when they get here.. What I need to know then is whether linux box has enough security features built in to mandrake 8.0 to "run" a website with SSL and cgi scripts if needed? Regards magnet
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