I am in Kampala, Uganda and trying to setup a web server at our organisation. We want to be able to host our websites which are made using CMS - Joomla. We are using suse 10.1 and already have a mail system based on postfix running on it. Joomla requires LAMP. I read an online tutorial - HowTo: Configure a Linux Apache Web Server on openSUSE 10.x and 11.x (including SSI and CGI)(http://opensuse.swerdna.org/suseapache.html), the problem is it doesnt cover the MySQL and PHP. Can you help me direct me in the right direction.
We have a global IP address and a registered domain name. A web hosting company used to host our site now we want to host it ourselves are there any additional things/stuff we need to do to host the site - like submission of IP address to DNS servers. How is all that done?
> I am in Kampala, Uganda and trying to setup a web server at our
> organisation. We want to be able to host our websites which are made
> using CMS - Joomla. We are using suse 10.1 and already have a mail
> system based on postfix running on it. Joomla requires LAMP. I read an
> online tutorial - HowTo: Configure a Linux Apache Web Server on openSUSE
> 10.x and 11.x (including SSI and
> CGI)(http://opensuse.swerdna.org/suseapache.html), the problem is it
> doesnt cover the MySQL and PHP. Can you help me direct me in the right
> direction.
You have to install those packages (mysql and php).
The problem you are facing is that your opensuse version (10.1) is outdated
and not maintained anymore so you will have problems to find the required
packages for your distribution release.
You can go to MySQL and PHP sites and download and compile both program
yourself. But better than doing this, think about upgrading your opensuse
installation to the newest 11.1. Even more, if you are thinking in
providing online services, working with an old operating system is no a
good idea as security flaws can easily arise and patches are difficult to
apply.
Just my 2 cents
> We have a global IP address and a registered domain name. A web hosting
> company used to host our site now we want to host it ourselves are there
> any additional things/stuff we need to do to host the site - like
> submission of IP address to DNS servers. How is all that done?
As per IP address. You can go with 2 options:
Buy static IP address from you ISP provider
Use dynamic IP address and setup any service like “noip” to handle the
redirection (personally I will not recommend this, but if there is no other
option, it should be fine).
As per DNS, you can use an external service (there are also free services
but paid ones are very good and reliable) to handle your domain name zone
so you can configure the records and point them to your router.
