Topic: Setup a web server

[Eli]

How do I set sme server up to host a website so it can be looked at from the web?

Thanx

[guestHH]

Simply read the manual. That's the least you can do right?

[Eli]

Where, I didn't see anywhere in the documation about how to set up a web server.

[Dan Brown]

There's nothing to "set up"; it is a web server out of the box.

[mike mattos]

read the manual section about virtual domains

point your web browser at the ip address of your SME computer

voila!

mike

[Michael Smith]

You can also set up an ibay to hold a website, so you're not just restricted to one set of HTML files.

[Eli]

I set up both a virtual domain and i-bay, but how can I see the website over the net?
I can't even access it on my computer.
The documentation doesn't help much.

Thanks

[Marc]

RTFM or hire somebody to do it for you. You can't expect people on this board to do it all for you when you can't do basic stuff dude.

[Michael Smith]

The secret is in the ibay properties.  You have to set the "Public access via web or anonymous FTP" property to reflect the access you wish to grant.  Then, internally, you can see your site via http://{servername}/{ibayname}

Similarly externally, if you've enabled external access.

And yes, the documentation DOES "help much", if you take the time to read carefully and understand fully.

[Eli]

Where do I get a global IP from?

[RayG]

You can get the external IP from the SME server manager web page in the "Review Confgiguration" section or from the console. There are numerous other utilities and methods to get this information also.

How is your SME server connected to the internet ?

[Eli]

What do you mean how is connected?

[Eli]

I have done all I need to so that I can host a website from my server but I don't know where to get the local ip and global ip. without these I can't get it on the web, right?
I'm setting this all up for the www, that's right too, yeah?

Sorry I'm a bit of a noob with all this but I want to learn.

[Guck Puppy]

Eli wrote:
>
> What do you mean how is connected?

choose :
1. with a modem, over a telephone line
2. using DSL / a cable modem
3. using a leased line / T1 / wireless connection
4. a university Local area network (ethernet connection)

G

[Eli]

I'm using ADSL