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The Internet Server Project - Part III - Do It and Test It


Go Forth and Build It

Remember, these are planning guides, not how-tos. If you've done the planning and assembled everything you should be ready to go. Your next step is to put it all together, connect it, install it and figure out+solve along the way.

However, there's an excellent step-by-step Opensuse server building guide I recently found: The Perfect Server - Suse 10.3. After you finish this article, give it a look and bookmark that url for reference during your project.

First Life: Http Me!

If you made it through, you should be able to login locally, on the server console. If your networking is up and running, you should be able to ssh to your server's private IP address from any computer on your local network.

If you can't ssh into the server locally, it may be your Suse firewall config. Run YAST, make sure the ssh service is running and the Suse Firewall is not blocking port 22

You'll want ssh: on your Windows box, try PuTTY, which you can get from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/, or the Cygwin tools. Be sure to check off the openssh package in the Cygwin install, get the netutils stuff while your at it (Unix ping, etc.) Mac & Linux should already have an ssh client.

If Apache2 is installed correctly, you should also be able to browse to your server. Again, from the local network, browse to 192.168.1.21 (if you used that IP), you should get the default Apache page.

Http Me From Anywhere on the Internet

Final task for this section: login to your router and access the port mapping configuration. Map port 80 to your server's private IP address, e.g., 192.168.1.21 (also port 80). If you're hazy on port forwarding, time for some valuable education. One place to start is with the Wikipedia pages:
-  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_forward
-  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_address_translation If you succeed, you should be able to browse to your static IP address. (No DNS yet, so it's all numbers.) Let's say your static IP is 1.2.3.4, you should be able to browse to http://1.2.3.4 (substitute your IP here). Try it from a friend's place or work.

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