Webserver question!

[btsdev]

OK starting in september i want to be able to have a webserver running out of my room on my pc which i plan to run 24/7.

First question: Does anyone know of a Very good, free webserver that's powerful and i could download? (my vb one isn't cutting it )

Second question: How about mail servers?

Third: Do most college campuses have outgoing port 80 blocked? I know my home ISP has outgoing 80 blocked.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

1: apache
2: postfix
3: You mean incoming? I don't know about "most," but afaik you should be able to set something up, maybe even get a .your.uni.edu hostname (I've never been to college so I don't know how common that is). I think generally they worry about ftp and filesharing stuff more than webservers.

 

[btsdev]

thanks a lot.

now.

Number 3 revised: Does anyone know if college campus networks let you serve anything? or is there some firewall i won't be able to access/change stuff on?

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: btsdev
thanks a lot.

now.

Number 3 revised: Does anyone know if college campus networks let you serve anything? or is there some firewall i won't be able to access/change stuff on?

Search around for your campus networks acceptable usage policy and you'll probably find an answer. I would imagine its not allowed by the rules by most dorm nets although it may not be blocked.

 

[btsdev]

ok one more question to ask now.

what's a very good free FTP server?

 

[Poontos]

ProFTPD & PureFTPD.

 

[vortix]

Where do you go to school? Most liberal arts colleges probably have everything blocked so you can't run a server that's visible from the outside. If you go to a tech school, there's a chance that they can set you up with your own subdomain or something.

4 years ago I went to a small liberal arts college, and everyone on the network had a public IP address (no firewall whatsoever). It was great - I ran all kinds of servers But they've cracked down now and don't allow anything anymore.

 

[rayon]

Internet Information Services (IIS) is also free and it comes with Windows.

I agree with postfix for mail serving. It's simple to configure and has lots of anti-SPAM features (I love them).

I think you should see a web server as a platform and what should drive your choice is what language/tools you want to use for web app development -- unless all you want is a static content web server.

ASP & ASP.NET --> IIS
PHP, Perl, Python --> Apache, IIS

Can't help with the "campus networks blocking ports" issue, sorry.

Rayon.

 

[btsdev]

thanks again guys, great info

i'm going to berkeley next fall if you have any idea what their policy on the network security is.

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: btsdev
thanks again guys, great info

i'm going to berkeley next fall if you have any idea what their policy on the network security is.

Do you google? (apologies to yahoo)