Here is my goal. I wish to host a couple of websites on my server. 

I'm using SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional which has Apache2

How do I go about setting up my two websites I wish to host from my server. 
 I need a step by step guide through this. The location of my htdocs folder 
is in /srv/www/htdocs. Now I am not sure if this helps you out or not, becau
se other boards, users are telling me to look for htdocs in /etc/www/htdocs 
- which doesn't exist on my end.

Now, when I try to type in 127.0.0.1 in my browser its saying it cannot conn
ect - what is causing this problem? It was working before because I actually
 saw the apache page appear. Not sure exactly what had happened, and I am un
clear on what to look for in correcting this.

Where should I enter my IP addresses for these two websites. The external IP
 address and the internal IP address?

I am using  YAST for the configuration, but if someone knows another way whi
ch may be easier, by all means let me know.

Thanks again.

If you need any more information, please ask. I'm desperate to get this serv
er up and running.

Also, I'm looking to setup an email server on the same box - what would I ne
ed in order to complete this. I want each website I'm hosting, have their em
ail addresses.

Lisa

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Lisa <Lisa.12d6oy@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote:
> Now, when I try to type in 127.0.0.1 in my browser its saying it cannot
> connect - what is causing this problem?

Apache isn't started or you have a firewall that is blocking port 80.
Check which one is true.

> Where should I enter my IP addresses for these two websites.

You don't. You need a DNS that will resolve the domain name(s) into your
public IP address, then you configure VirtualHosts in the apache
configuration.
See the documentation of Apache for VirtualHosts.

> Also, I'm looking to setup an email server on the same box - what would
> I need in order to complete this.

Read the mail-administrator-howto on www.tldp.org

Davide

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