[H-GEN] Installing a website!

[Ewan Edwards]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:47 am, Russell Mathews wrote:

> and to make it 
> accessible from the web as well as ensuring that I am not hacked.

This is a big topic, well beyond my expertise.  I'll let others far 
more expert than myself address this.

> my webserver.   I probably have already installed the directories
> where I should place my Index.html and other website files, but do
> not know its name or how to access it.

On recent versions of RH and on FC2 the default web server directory 
is /var/www/html/

>
> I tried to access my site by http://<IPaddress
> <http://%3cipaddress/>> but was met with a dialogue Login box from
> my DLink Modem/Router.   So, I think I have at least two problems.

The simplest solution will be to configure your modem/router to 
forward requests on port 80 to port 80 on your webserver (the FC4 
box).  To test, configure your web browser to use your ISP's proxy 
server then point the browser to http://<yourfixedip>/