[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

[Neil Greenwood]

On 24/11/06, Colin Humphrey <c.humphrey_00 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> [snip]
> Basically I want to have an XP computer with an internet connection to
> display web pages that housed on an ubuntu server.  What's the best
> configuration - way to go about it?
>

Depends on exactly what you want. Do you want the Ubuntu server's
pages to be accessible to the internet, or just on the XP machine?

If it's the former, you've got things set up wrong -- XP is not the
most secure operating system, and forwarding requests to the Ubuntu
server means that both will be vunerable to attack from the internet.
Plus you'll need to configure XP's internet connection sharing, and
the firewall and other things that I'm not familiar with.

If it's just internally to the XP machine then that's not too bad a
way of doing things. I think.


If you want the Ubuntu server accessible from the internet, you need
to get a proper router and put the Ubuntu server in the DMZ as David
mentioned earlier.

Hwyl,
Neil.