7.10 as intranet server?

[Frequent Modulation]

At installation, which packages would i need to install? LAMP? Samba? I have no idea but I do hope you do.

Thanks!!

[Sef]

What operating systems are the other computers running?

[Frequent Modulation]

Morning Sef. The other operating systems are windows XP Pro and windows 2000 Pro. At some point in the next 6 months, Vista will get thrown into the mix as well.

[Joeb454]

Intranet Server - meaning displaying some sort of web page on the network only?

I'm pretty sure apache could handle this, because you could connect to it using the PC name.

E.g. say you called the server "Batman" you could connect to it over the network with http://Batman

I'm not 100% sure, I've never done much intranet stuff before, but it could work

[Frequent Modulation]

Intranet Server - meaning displaying some sort of web page on the network only?

I'm pretty sure apache could handle this, because you could connect to it using the PC name.

E.g. say you called the server "Batman" you could connect to it over the network with http://Batman

I'm not 100% sure, I've never done much intranet stuff before, but it could work

Yes, I would want to use it for displaying web pages over the lan.

[Frequent Modulation]

Would the LAMP package be the only added install? Sounds great if thats all it is.

[Joeb454]

Should be

You'll need to put the files in /var/www/

By default apache will load index.html Also you'll need to be root to edit files in that dir. So usually I make a directory in home, by doing the following on the server:

mkdir ~/www/
sudo ln -s /var/www/ ~/www/

This allows me to put the files in /home/<user>/www/ without being root

[Frequent Modulation]

Should be

You'll need to put the files in /var/www/

By default apache will load index.html Also you'll need to be root to edit files in that dir. So usually I make a directory in home, by doing the following on the server:

mkdir ~/www/
sudo ln -s /var/www/ ~/www/

This allows me to put the files in /home/<user>/www/ without being root

Will apache automatically serve from the new directory or will i need to change a file to point to the new directory?

[mlentink]

Sounds like LAMP is all you need, although with all those windows boxes you might want to look at samba too.

Yeah, you normally would have to edit the apache config files. They are extensively documented, as you would expect with the most frequently used http-server, but there are also gui's out there. I personally use Webmin, which does most of what I need (which, admittedly, isn't much...)

[Joeb454]

Apache will serve from /var/www/

BUT

The 2nd command links that folder to ~/www/ meaning that anything you put in /home/<yourUserName>/www/ will actually be in /var/www/

It's a little easier to manage then