I am new to this site, and web hosting in general. I hope this is the right forum to post in. I was trying to figure out how to configure a server so that I can host websites off of it. Right now I have a server that is accessible only on my college's network (address is something like \\140.247.182.60). It is password protected. I also have a website and domain name. I just need to be able to make my website accessible to browsers when stored on my server. I would appreciate any help.
RonPK
10:01 am on Oct 9, 2006 (gmt 0)
Hello nbutala, welcome to WebmasterWorld.
I just need to be able to make my website accessible to browsers when stored on my server.
I don't understand that part.
In general, two things need to be done in order to set up a website with a domain name:
in DNS, make the domain yourdomain.tld point to your IP. Some registrars provide an interface to let you do that. Others don't; you'll have to ask them kindly...
on your server, install web server software, for example Apache. Configure the software so that it will handle requests for yourdomain.tld.
