How to setup an intranet

[V00D00]

How does one setup an intranet? If I had a web server setup and I wanted to have an intranet within my building, and serve a website off there that would be available to everyone outside the network as well... how would I do that? Would I need a fancy firewall, or an some kind of tricky ACL... or two different webservers... or what??

 

[osage]

you can find most of the answers at this site.

a very wise man gave me that link some years ago when I asked a simmilar question.

 

[V00D00]

nope... nothing on there about intranets.

 

[skyking]

serving pages inside and outside can be done several ways.
making hosts file entries is tedious, but works perfectly.
running a dns server on the inside is another way.

 

[JackMDS]

Assuming that you know how to set an HTTP server, and load it with pages and files.

From inside your Network it just a matter of typing the IP of the server computer.

Or enter into each computer Host File an IP to Name resolution entry.

Example: 192.168.1.200 Intranet

Look at this page it is part of the Host File description.

Windows Host File- What is it and How to Mange it?

From the outside it depends on how people are connected or going to connect to your Network.

If they are connecting through the Internet this might help.

Link to: How to connect through the Internet to Computer/Server?

:sun:

P.S. It also depends on what you mean by Intranet. In today corporate world Intranet evolved into collaboration tool. If such is the case you need Windows Server 2003 with SharePoint server. The connection then is done via the server DNS.

Link to: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/

 

[Micronaut]

Best to use a local DNS server if you can get away with it (any Server 2000 or Server 2003 will do).

Modifying hosts files can be a huge pain.

 

[V00D00]

No, modifying the host files is defineatly an option. It's a small network of only about 30 computers.

But how do I keep access from the internet out if I'm serving both intranet and internet pages off the same web server??

 

[skyking]

you forward port 80 incoming traffic to the server. It will only go to the server. There is no need to use a DMZ and expose the whole thing.

 

[Cha0s]

you need 2 netwrok cards