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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Web and FTP with Linux

Thanks, Mark. I suspected I would not need an FTP server, but was not
sure, because I would not want anyone writing to or modifying what is in
the server. I looked at the Ubuntu website and see the most recent LTS
version, 16.04.2, is only for a 64 bit machine. So, it appears I will
not be able to use Ubuntu if I do not have a 64 bit machine. I was going
to use a 2004 vintage Pentium 4 tower case machine. It still works, but
since a server will have to be on all the time, I am not sure using this
old machine is a good idea because it is that much closer to the end of
its life. So, I will be getting a new machine, which I think should cost
less than $300. If I do not get a 64 bit one then I would not be able to
use Ubuntu unless I found and an older version of Ubuntu. Probably for
the simple things I want a web server for an older version would work
just as well.
Stan

On 3/5/2017 12:53 PM, darterdrac0@hotmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
> Hi Stan,
>
> The simple answer to a complicated question is yes to everything
> except the need for an FTP Server. A basic web server will do what you
> want - FTP isn't needed for that, only if you want them to be able to
> upload or change files on the server. Set up correctly your web server
> would be just like any other site on the internet. How much security
> there is (access, logins, passwords, etc) would be entirely up to you.
>
> Depending upon how YOU access the web server you may use FTP for that
> to upload/remove/change files, including those for the web server
> itself. FTP allows you to do this remotely, rather than be on the
> server box itself.
>
> If you're planning on running this from your home connection, things
> can get a little complicated (mainly security & external access) so I
> suggest you do some research on it. Additionally, Red Hat 7 is ancient
> (2001?) & not to be confused with the current Red Hat ENTERPRISE Linux
> 7. There are a number of very good free distro's that would meet
> you're needs - CentOS or Ubuntu for example, but there are many more.
> Check them out & have a look for more up to date documentation.
>
> There are plenty of guides on the web to set up your own Linux server
> so check some out. Just make sure they are current, there are so many
> old ones out there too.
>
> Good luck.
> Mark K.
>
>

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[LINUX_Newbies] Re: Web and FTP with Linux

Hi Stan,

The simple answer to a complicated question is yes to everything except the need for an FTP Server. A basic web server will do what you want - FTP isn't needed for that, only if you want them to be able to upload or change files on the server. Set up correctly your web server would be just like any other site on the internet. How much security there is (access, logins, passwords, etc) would be entirely up to you.

Depending upon how YOU access the web server you may use FTP for that to upload/remove/change files, including those for the web server itself. FTP allows you to do this remotely, rather than be on the server box itself.

If you're planning on running this from your home connection, things can get a little complicated (mainly security & external access) so I suggest you do some research on it. Additionally, Red Hat 7 is ancient (2001?) & not to be confused with the current Red Hat ENTERPRISE Linux 7. There are a number of very good free distro's that would meet you're needs - CentOS or Ubuntu for example, but there are many more. Check them out & have a look for more up to date documentation.

There are plenty of guides on the web to set up your own Linux server so check some out. Just make sure they are current, there are so many old ones out there too.

Good luck.
Mark K.

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[LINUX_Newbies] Web and FTP with Linux

I had an IP that gave 100 megabyte free space to customers. I used it
for my web site. I also used it to upload files/images so that I could
point a link to them in an email message instead of attaching them to
the email message. The IP was bought out by another company and it no
longer allows this. I do not trust internet sites for web sites and
files, especially Google, and want to keep things under my control.
Linus has been suggested that it could do what I want.

This post is just some basic questions of whether Linux will do what I
want. The way my web site and files worked before is that I just
uploaded everything for a web site to the 100 M space and anyone with an
internet browser, such as Firefox, could get to my web site by just
entering the url in the search line of their web browser. The url for my
web site was
http://users.commspeed.net/stanlep/homepagens.html
They did not have to give any other information, such as an email
address or password.

If I wanted someone to see a document (like a pdf) or an image, instead
of attaching it to an email message I would just upload it to the 100M
space and give a link to it in the email message such as
http://users.commspeed.net/stanlep/Prominence-small.jpg
They did not have to give any other information, such as an email
address or password.

My questions are:
1. Would my own server based on Linux operate the same way as it did
with my original IP with regard to a web site? In other words, could
they just enter something like http://stan.web/homepagens.html (a made
up url just as an example) in the search line of their browser to view
my website without having to enter any other information like an email
address or password (even if it is nothing more than 'anonymous').?
2. Would my own server using Linux operate the same way as it did with
my original IP with regard to files? In other words, could they just
click on a link, such as http://stan.web/stanlep/Prominence-small.jpg,
in an email message I send them to view an image (or file) without
having to enter any other information such as as an email address or
password (even if it is nothing more than 'anonymous')?
3. I found a used copy of "Red Hat Linux 7" that also has the
installation discs for Linux ver 7. If the answers to the first question
'yes', is chapter 21, "Setting up a Web Server", the chapter to study to
set up my own personal web server for my website as described above?
4. If the answer to the second question is 'yes' is chapter 20, "Setting
up an FTP Server", the chapter to study to be able to share files and
images through email messages as I described above?

Stan

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Friday, February 17, 2017

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: update ubuntus

On 11.01.2017 15:38, highskywhy@yahoo.de wrote:
> good afternoon
> we use now linux during 4 years,
> very good.
> every six months u have to update ubuntus
> but sometimes there is no link for upgrade.
> How can I ask for update 16.04 to 16.10?
> regards
> Sophie
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[LINUX_Newbies] destroyed mouse dsl keyboard during session

On 11.01.2017 15:40, highskywhy@yahoo.de wrote:
> good afternoon
> sometimes there is an accident using Linux
> not often once a month.
> So we lose contact to internet or mouse or gui was destroyed.
> Until today we cannot repair it and we boot new and everything is fine.
> But is it possible to repair without ending the session?
>
> regards
> sophie
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