[thelist] Intranet Help

[Chris Johnston]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:27:16 -0400, Gabriel Vasquez
<enkryption at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Evolters!
> 
> I've been trying to find good information about intranets but I haven't had much
> luck. I
> know what it is, but I really don't know much else. Here's my problem:
> 
> I have 3 computers that have access to 1 shared drive. The share drive is where
> I want to
> put the intranet. I also want the webpage to be database driven and would like
> to run php,
> but I'm not even sure if it is possible.

Are you sure you know what an Intranet is and you are not confusing an
intranet with a network? The fact that you have 3 computers that can
all connect to a shared drive is part of a network and has nothing to
do with an intranet. About the only connection the two have is that
they both rely on a network.

> 
> My question is this: How would I be able to install a server (let's say apache)
> on the share
> drive, and how would I be able to access to get my other computers on the
> network to
> recognize this as http://localhost/ (or any other address if necessary)?

First, you can install the web server, php, mysql, and any other web
technologies on which every computer you like because they do not have
anything to do with a shared drive. In fact, it is definitely better
if you choose just on of the computer to install everything on and
stay clear of the shared drive. The reason is that if you install
something like Apache or MySQL somewhere where everyone has access to
it, eventually someone will mess things up.

In terms of setting these things up, there are plenty of tutorials on
the net that will show how to do it, so I am not going to go into
detail here. If you need help or would like more information, feel
free to email me off list and I will help you out.

All that the computers on your network need to access the web server
is the IP address of the computer that is hosting the web site. This
will probably be something like 192.168.0.x (this is just an example).
Once the web server is installed and running, just go to any other
computer, open a web browser and type in the IP address of the
computer on which the web server is running and you should see your
website (or the default webpage for the server you installed).

Check out Sitepoint for lots of tutorials on how to setup Apache and PHP.

http://www.sitepoint.com


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