Hello Beth,
First of all, no, the hostname will not affect the computer's ability to
be a web server. If you want to host websites from this computer,
you'll likely be using the Apache web server -- there is a package in
CentOS for apache, and more information on it can be found on Apache's
website: http://httpd.apache.org/
I'm not sure what you meant that you had to "load" the html
document
"from cd directly" -- if you could explain, it would help me answer
your
question.
No, you do not need to set up an ftp server on this computer to transfer
files to it -- although it is a common method. There are other
applications, like scp that allow you to transfer files, with enhanced
security -- although an ftp server may better meet your needs.
Yes, the fact that this computer is NATed is important. If you expect
to access the mail/web/ftp servers hosted on this machine from outside
of the NAT network, you will need to forward the needed ports through
your firewall/router (that handles the NAT).
-Chris
Beth Curotto wrote:> I have just set up a box - HOSTNAME mail.abni.com
>
> It has Qmail setup.
>
> I also want this box to serve as the host for our website - abni.com
>
> Can someone point me in the direction of where to go next.
>
> I am unsure if HOSTNAME will be a problem as a web server.
>
> Currently I have loaded a html doc in - /var/www/html, but I had to load
> from cd directly on this machine.
>
> Is is neccessary to setup ftp to be able to upload html from remote system?
>
> Don't know if this is important at this point - but this system is
NAT'd
> to an internal ip.
>
> Heck of a 1st Linux project, huh. That's for all the advice.
>
> Beth