Walt wrote:
> 1) What kind of server hardware am I looking at having to buy for
> this project? (I would NOT expect more than 100 simultaneous
> users or, as I said above, to exceed my 512k)
Dancer said: "that tells me he needs a 486-66 or better, possibly
up to a state-of-the-art Pentium depending on how many zillion databases
they want to run on the box."
If you're just serving text or low-graphic webpages, no databases or
other facilities on the box, just grab someone's Windows machine they
no longer use because it's 'not good enough for anything serious' and
convert it to linux.
> 2) What is involved in making a 'secure' website? (Please note: I
> am _nearly_ a complete newbie to linux, and I only have a
> somewhat-greater-than-working-knowledge of HTML.)
As Vinnie said: apache, check out .htaccess. I *think* that's
clear-text passwords, I'm not sure. There's almost certainly something
in the apache documentation for more security - or maybe someone here
knows something. :)
> I'm a pretty quick learner and I'm studying O'Reilly's
> Programming Perl and I know Java.
No need to reinvent the wheel. Password-protected sites are a much-required
feature, and Apache has it covered.
Jenn V.
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