How to manage web server ?

[hussain]

I want to learn how to manage Web server with using linux os, how to access via remote, and how to host web sites on it, I will appreciate for documents, and if any body can teach me I will appreciate it.
Thanks
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[mrkkhattak]

Assalamualaikum,

Pls refer to http://www.linuxdoc.org & Oreilly's OpenBook Project http://www.oreilly.com/openbook .

You would be able to download a few good docs or whole books for web server adminstration.

[stinger]

Dear Hussain,
My reccomendation to you is to install any good distribution of Linux on ur PC and start trying to get things to work. To run webserver, you need Apache, for remote access, u just need to enable SSH...
I will suggest Mandrake 9.1 if you are a beginner and any other version if you are good

[fawad]

hussain,
One neat tool I find useful for learning configurations I know absolutely nothing about is Webmin. It's a gigantic web based configuration tool for almost all aspects of a Linux based server (httpd, named, postfix, user/groups, packages). You can use it to kickstart the configuration, then go into the manuals of the configs for detailed knowledge.

[jargon]

For remote access use vnc.

For example, on the linux box have sshd running.

Now (with a copy of vncserver) running, ssh into the system
and run vncserver. This will create a session that will allow you to login to the system remotely via a gui.

You could use Realvnc from a win32 box to connect and work on the linux box. Its really awesome.

Another alternative would be, if you are connecting to the linux machine from a win32 box, use cygwin (google::cygwin)
which comes with copy of X11 to connect onto the system. Of course this would be really slow if the system if off the lan.

either way, have ssh as a base to launch vnc. never use telnet.

[aus76pk]

ASA,
The best way u can learn that is from
http://www.apache.org/
http://www.linux.org/
http://www.zecos.com/apacheconf/

Regards
Ausaf

[spawnisalive]

i got that pdf have't read it yet but i intend to.

[mahin]

i got that pdf have't read it yet but i intend to.

Do it in Ramadan and you will get more Sawab Just Kidding

[farhantoqeer]

Think twice about security reasons when you go to make your things done remotely.