Hi, i am thinking about turning my old pc into a server again with my 250gb hdd, the thing is, i would prefrebly like to be able to install the linux os just for a server (so text based) and keep all my data on the NTFS partition it is on now. I would like to Host my Photos on them, so if i want to show someone them, all i have to do is give a URL, i would also like to have the ability to let others create account and use my server as photo hosting, and maybe another account thing for file hosting, but both of those seperate. I would also like to have Email Hosting, so other people can have an E-Mail address on my server that they use, also i want to be able to have one aswell so all my mail gets sent to my server, i would also like it if the emails would be able to work on MSN Messenger.
Well thats quite a specification... You're not thinking about hosting this yourself are you? You're bandwidth won't handle it, and setting up all that won't be easy. You'll need to first get familiar with Linux by the command line, then set up the Apache web server, and the appropriate photo hosting software. Then the email server with something like Exim, don't know about the MSN thing though. You can't really expect people to use your email server/photo hosting with a home internet connection. Think about getting proper web hosting with www.ashosted.co.uk or E-Main Hosting | Home Page instead.
Meh, only for me then, so i dont need to mess around uploading photos for other people to see, i can just send then the link. How will i install the photo hosting and email software? Why will i need to use an apache web server, does this eman i gotta do coding? What about the harddrive too? i cant transfer all my files to another harddrive as i dont have enough space, so looks like i am going to have to mount my harddrive on the server as NTFS, but how exatly do i go about doing this too?
You can't have an internet mail server unless you have a static IP and a domain name. Apache web server is the server software which provides web pages, most of the websites on the internet run apache. You won't need to do coding, but it won't be easy to just set it up and run it. You can keep your files ok, you just need to mount them to a directory, although they will be read only. Code: mkdir /mnt/windows mount /dev/hdax /mnt/windows Where hdax is the drive and partition of your windows drive.
meh it was all set up with somthing before, got by static IP, dunno how tho. So i cant add files to the hard drive?
Actually you can an smtp and po3 server with a dynamic ip address, have a look here. You can sign up for their free service and use their free domain as your domain name. With pop3 there's no problem at all with dynamic ip, but with smtp, there are some like, other pop3 servers such as AOL and OneandOne will recognize your email as a spam so they will automatically block your email. Its because your smtp servers ip is changing every now and then(dynamic :x: ).
they cant block it if it aint going to aol's email, and been sent to my server, so i actually have my email hosted on my server.
