Help: Novice - Hardware Advice!

Hello friends and fellows Today, I wanna have some hardware advice: I wanna build A super duper FreeBSD Web Server Box with apache2, mysql5, php, etc. But I am just unsure about what kind of hardware I should buy since I am not having a big budget but do have a reasonable There gonna be ma

Compiling Kernel for Computer with 2 CPUs

Hi I have a Companq Professional AP400 with two Pentium III processors. I want to install FreeBSD on my computer and use it as Web Server. To make real use of Two Processors, I want to Recompile Kernel but I don't see any option to compile the kernel in the file as there used to be in old versio

Newbie File system

Hi Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e507630

Overwite problem

Hej I have installed ProFTP on my computer. And have following settings in the proftpd.conf file. But I am unable to overwrite on a file? What is the wrong? # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. AllowOverwrite on AllowAll

Help: Virtual Hosts and Email

Hi Guys I am trying to host couple of virtual hosts on my FreeBSD box... 1. How can I make Virtual Hosts, I mean what would be best structure and strategy? 2. What is the basic procedure in few lines? 3. How can I setup Email Server for example Qpopper? and is it better than Sendmail or what?

Help: Mounting USB Mass Storage

Hi Guys I have few questions? 1. How can I mount a Mass Storage USB drive on my FreeBSD Box? 2. Which I could also be able to plug to a Windows machine? 3. Which type of formating I should do, i.e. NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16? 4. How can I make it automatic mounted on a reboot? Thanks for your help

PHP not working

Hello, I have installed Apache HTTP Server 2.20 and PHP 5. But when I want to open index.php file in the browser instead of getting the Output Html page, I get SAVE "index.php" file popup. What is the wrong, I have added these lines in httpd.conf AddType application/x- httpd-php . php AddType ap

Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH

Hi I have created a user "admin" and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT "su", change to the root login? How can I do that? To Install a Web Server, which distribution I should install, User or other? thanks vj ___ fre

Help! FreeBSD Webserver with two NICs

Hello Gurus I think you might help me I want to run a webserver which will be having a good traffic. At present, I have a 100/10 Mbps internet connection (fiber-optics) but with this connection I cannot get Fixed IP for the webserver. To get the Fixed-IP, I am getting a 24/1 Mbps inter