RaceNerd.com - New Linux Box Up and Running

If your reading this, I finally got my Linux box running. If you had been following my trials and tribulations over the past year or so you would have seen that I had originally wanted to get a Linux test server running, but had problems so I gave up and installed Apache, PHP, and MySql on a Windows 2000 box. The problem was that I couldn't get the namevirtualhost to work on Apache. Well, I finally found the problem and it was damned simple.

The default configuration file in apache doesn't include a location for the srver to start from, like index.html, so it just displays the default server test page all the time. That is what had frustrated me, and I didn't have time to figure it out. It was stupid simple and I smack myself for not finding it sooner. Since finding that, I have the new server up and running and have to say that it's much faster and doesn't crash like the 2000 box did.

Now that I have this working I'll be adding more features here in the near future. I'll be upgrading the site to Nuke 7.0 and also setting up POP and SMTP services through this box. I would also like to get a simple DNS running, but I'm going to have to do some reading on that.

I'm also going to be starting another site for the family to post their photos on. Mom has a lot of historical family photos that we feel need to be shared. We will get the put oup on the site so that everyone can have their own prints and pass the heritage down to their kids. No sense in us being the only part of the family to have everything.