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Setting up *unix box

  • 17-09-2004 9:11am
    #1
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    I'm a relative newbie to *unix and I wanted to setup a small intranet here in the office so we could post project progress reports/useful sites etc., now I could build this in php in a matter of hours but I'm not sure how I would go about setting up a *unix box to host it on so it would act like an intranet.

    I know I would have to install apache, but how would I get it to recognise http://intranet/ or something to that effect? Also is it easy to set up a mail-server on such a box relatively easily?

    I was thinking about installing Fedora Project as I've heard good things about it. Any help from the *unix Gurus out there would be helpful

    Colm


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  • #2
    tomk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭tomk


    Sonds like a networking question really - you want something to resolve http://intranet to your web server's ip address, and that something is DNS. This is generally provided by bind, although there are other DNS apps out there - djbdns, tinydns, etc.

    If it's a small network, you could also do without DNS and simply put the required information in each PC's hosts file, or if you have a DHCP server, you could use its hosts file and run dnsmasq on it.


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