I am setting up the school website and we need to run it off our own server...which is running Windows 2000 Pro edition...how do I set up a name server, etc...to get it to work?...really need help fast..
I want to host my website..NEED HELP!!!!
- Thread starter EnragedPC
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do already have a domain? if not, get one.
then you need dns hosting (assuming you have to get a domain), zoneedit is a good place for that.
setup apache or IIS on you win2k box
forward the appropriate ports
presto!
then you need dns hosting (assuming you have to get a domain), zoneedit is a good place for that.
setup apache or IIS on you win2k box
forward the appropriate ports
presto!
you'd probably be better off using your registar's name servers... it sounds like DNS etc are going to be more than you want to deal with.
for example:
let's say you go to register.com and register "poo.com" (there's a winner
)
let's say the server you want to put it on is a win2k server with a public IP address. not 192.168.1.whatever... a *PUBLIC* IP address... one that's "touching" the internet (like 63.115.130.105 or whatever).
you'd tell register.com "my server for poo.com will be located at 63.115.130.105" and they would make an entry in their DNS records, and go about telling the whole world "poo.com = 63.115.130.105". this usually takes a day or so, as the information propigates around the world.
next you DL apache (microsoft's IIS = teh bad!) from apache.org and install it on your server. once installed, it sets up an "htdocs" folder somewhere on your server. whatever you put in that folder is "your website". if you made a "test" folder in that folder, then the url pointing to that folder would be "http://poo.com/test" and so on and so on....
from that point, it's up to you to actually build the page....
good luck.
for example:
let's say you go to register.com and register "poo.com" (there's a winner
let's say the server you want to put it on is a win2k server with a public IP address. not 192.168.1.whatever... a *PUBLIC* IP address... one that's "touching" the internet (like 63.115.130.105 or whatever).
you'd tell register.com "my server for poo.com will be located at 63.115.130.105" and they would make an entry in their DNS records, and go about telling the whole world "poo.com = 63.115.130.105". this usually takes a day or so, as the information propigates around the world.
next you DL apache (microsoft's IIS = teh bad!) from apache.org and install it on your server. once installed, it sets up an "htdocs" folder somewhere on your server. whatever you put in that folder is "your website". if you made a "test" folder in that folder, then the url pointing to that folder would be "http://poo.com/test" and so on and so on....
from that point, it's up to you to actually build the page....
good luck.
i just have my wepage as name.no-ip.org
ort...
but i still dont know how to set up invision and such all the tweaking for mysql stuff is just confuses me..
onza
ort...but i still dont know how to set up invision and such all the tweaking for mysql stuff is just confuses me..
onza
Why don't you admit that you're in over your head and tell them to hire someone who knows what he's doing?
Don't even know what invision is.
But I'll relate my experience.
When I design a new web site, I host everything locally. Whtever it's on a linux server or W2k. I always use W2k Dns as my primary DNS resolution when I'm designing locally.
Let's say I'm gonna do a website called www.mikeysmokespole.com
To set everything up I do the following:
In w2k dns, I create a new zone. THe zone is called mikeysmokespole.com. The zone is not an active directory zone. It's the radio button below the active directory one. Note the zone is not called www.mikeysmokespole.com.
After the new zone is created....(accept defaults afterwards), I make a new "A Entry" or host entry in that zone. I give it the name www nad let w2k append the domain name (mikeysmokespole.com) FOr the IP address, I enter the IP Address of the Web server.
Now, taking out configuring IIS for multiple web sites (using host headers)....once you have it configured in the way I've specified above....
This is all local resolution. But it shows you how to set it up. To verify it works, assuming you're on your w2k server, make sure that the dns resolution is set to the same ip address as your w2k server in the networking tab. Assuming it is, and that DNS and IIS are running, you can now go into your browser and type www.mikeysmokespole.com
Note: When you browse to IIS this way, it views it as outside access.....and unless you have a file in the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ named index.html or index.htm...you wont' be able to see anything (access privileges). I usually add a simple file called test.htm to my webroot and browse to www.mikeysmokespole.com/test.htm.
nce you get this working, then you can move to getting a public DNS set up right. All you would have to do to change it to a public access is
1. Configure your routing to allow port 80 in
2. Enter the IP Address of your server into your public DNS.
3. Wait for a zone update (sometimes you have to.....sometimes you don't.....largely depends on yoru registrar)
4. Change the networking configuration on your server to point to a public name server....if you have the name server of your registrar you can change it to this. If you use your ISP's DNS server here, then you'll HAVE to wait for a zone update before it will resolve your new IP Address.
If you want to host more then one domain on your IIS Server, it gets trickier.....but it's still relatively simple.....although not as simple as Apache IMO.
Regarding Mysql......if youre running it on the 2k server, and all access is from the 2k server, you can just put three entries in the mysql tables (mysql admin database) in the tables db, host, and user, and you'll be up and running there.......
my .02. Hope it helps.....and doesn't spread confusion
But I'll relate my experience.
When I design a new web site, I host everything locally. Whtever it's on a linux server or W2k. I always use W2k Dns as my primary DNS resolution when I'm designing locally.
Let's say I'm gonna do a website called www.mikeysmokespole.com
To set everything up I do the following:
In w2k dns, I create a new zone. THe zone is called mikeysmokespole.com. The zone is not an active directory zone. It's the radio button below the active directory one. Note the zone is not called www.mikeysmokespole.com.
After the new zone is created....(accept defaults afterwards), I make a new "A Entry" or host entry in that zone. I give it the name www nad let w2k append the domain name (mikeysmokespole.com) FOr the IP address, I enter the IP Address of the Web server.
Now, taking out configuring IIS for multiple web sites (using host headers)....once you have it configured in the way I've specified above....
This is all local resolution. But it shows you how to set it up. To verify it works, assuming you're on your w2k server, make sure that the dns resolution is set to the same ip address as your w2k server in the networking tab. Assuming it is, and that DNS and IIS are running, you can now go into your browser and type www.mikeysmokespole.com
Note: When you browse to IIS this way, it views it as outside access.....and unless you have a file in the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ named index.html or index.htm...you wont' be able to see anything (access privileges). I usually add a simple file called test.htm to my webroot and browse to www.mikeysmokespole.com/test.htm.
nce you get this working, then you can move to getting a public DNS set up right. All you would have to do to change it to a public access is
1. Configure your routing to allow port 80 in
2. Enter the IP Address of your server into your public DNS.
3. Wait for a zone update (sometimes you have to.....sometimes you don't.....largely depends on yoru registrar)
4. Change the networking configuration on your server to point to a public name server....if you have the name server of your registrar you can change it to this. If you use your ISP's DNS server here, then you'll HAVE to wait for a zone update before it will resolve your new IP Address.
If you want to host more then one domain on your IIS Server, it gets trickier.....but it's still relatively simple.....although not as simple as Apache IMO.
Regarding Mysql......if youre running it on the 2k server, and all access is from the 2k server, you can just put three entries in the mysql tables (mysql admin database) in the tables db, host, and user, and you'll be up and running there.......
my .02. Hope it helps.....and doesn't spread confusion
Aside from notfred's suggestion, why not go to someone like pair.com and pay them $18 a month to do the hosting for you? Your W2K box is probably just going to get infected as soon as you put it on the internet.
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