Setting up a simple Web Server

[Derek Broughton]

Chanchao wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 11:16 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> 
>> I wold like to install a simple Web Server on my Ubuntu 6.06.
>>  
>> I wold like to make a few pictures available to my family overseas.
> 
> In that case I actually strongly suggest you just use an online
> gallery / photoblog site. .  MUCH easier.  To run your own web server
> you will need to have your PC always on, and have it accessible on a
> fixed IP on the Internet, which opens a whole can of security worms.

You certainly don't need a fixed IP - there are plenty of dynamic DNS
services - and if all that's open is port 80, you don't even have much
problem with security, but I agree that it makes more sense to use one of
the online sites.
-- 
derek