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How to make a server

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aggpirate

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Well I dont know much about this but, I want to set up a server at my house. i would like it just to store music, movies etc. And beable to connect throught FTP. Also would I beable to host my website from it? Any answers or links to show me guides are apreciated.
 
All you need is another computer and setup the correct shareing options in Xp. You would be able to host a website from it.

XP makes it pretty easy to share files between computers if that's all you want. Just get a router and then create a music, movie, whatever folder, and then share it. When you go to network places you should see the name of the other computer, when you open that up there should be the shared folders there.
 
Keep in mind that if you have Comcast or Verizon non-business internet, they probably block port 80 which will make it a bit trickier to run the server.

I'd suggest you find a cheap machine, install Linux on it and run vsftpd and apache. Then put it in your router's DMZ.
 
unhappy_mage said:
Keep in mind that if you have Comcast or Verizon non-business internet, they probably block port 80 which will make it a bit trickier to run the server.
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umm ... no.
port 80 is http. if the incoming traffic at port 80 was blocked, then the poster could not goto "hardocp.com". if the outgoing traffic on port 80 was blocked, then the poster would not be able to send info in html forms, such as logging in to the forums board.



your isp *does* have utilities monitoring traffic ibound/outbound traffic, and can easily tell if you are hosting a server for a long period of time. most large isp's have "business" levels of service for people wanting to host their own server, and, consequently, some isp's will even block some common server-specific ports (there ae ways around this, though). calling the isp is the easiest way to find out what they can do.

as for the o.s. choice, don't completely plunge into a pure linux/apache server unless you are comfortable setting linux/apache permissions. try starting smaller as a previous poster noted of running apache on a windows 2000 or 2003 server. IIS in a windows server is always an option as well.
 
PTNL said:
umm ... no.
port 80 is http. if the incoming traffic at port 80 was blocked, then the poster could not goto "hardocp.com". if the outgoing traffic on port 80 was blocked, then the poster would not be able to send info in html forms, such as logging in to the forums board.
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Ummm, yes...you can easily tell if the port 80 traffic coming in is related to requested information sent out. I do this with a simple firewall rule on my linux box. If the traffic coming in is not related to that going out it's dropped. Check out the related, established in iptables config.
 
PTNL said:
umm ... no.
port 80 is http. if the incoming traffic at port 80 was blocked, then the poster could not goto "hardocp.com". if the outgoing traffic on port 80 was blocked, then the poster would not be able to send info in html forms, such as logging in to the forums board.
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lol. um....no. Port 80 is commonly blocked for broadband customers to stop them from running webservers. As are POP and SMTP ports This would have zero (read none) affect on internet sites.
 
PTNL said:
umm ... no.
port 80 is http. if the incoming traffic at port 80 was blocked, then the poster could not goto "hardocp.com". if the outgoing traffic on port 80 was blocked, then the poster would not be able to send info in html forms, such as logging in to the forums board.
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Well, you got one thing right. Port 80 is http.

When you make a tcp connection, it assigns a port other than 80 to your end of the connection. Try it. Start a big file downloading, and then run "netstat -at" (for linux, forget if it's the same in windows) to show the open tcp ports. You'll see something like this (probably a few if you're still browsing):
tcp 0 0 10.3.1.98:32856 192.168.1.1:80 ESTABLISHED
So port 80 on 192.168.1.1 is open, but on 10.3.1.98 port 32856 is open.

The post method has nothing to do with port 80 being open. tcp is bidirectional, you send data upstream all the time over ports other than 80.
 
Alright thanks, I a mstarting to run it on an old machine. I use set ther server up at my dad office so It is a company internet.
 
aggpirate said:
Alright thanks, I a mstarting to run it on an old machine. I use set ther server up at my dad office so It is a company internet.
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I don't know what this means in english but if you're using your fathers company's intranet to host a server thats really not a good idea.
 
He owns the compeny and he said I could. So I dont know what can be wrong with that.
 
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