# Debian Linux Server - Apache Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 24, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480 "2004-08-24T19:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jw06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jw06](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jw06)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/1 "2004-08-24T19:31:46Z")
Hello, I am wanting to set up webhosting on my server, but I am a little unsure of the things I may need for this job. I have apache, php, mysql, postgre and all that good stuff already installed. In order to run multiple sites off of a computer, is there a way to do it without a certain port? I think there is, but another thing I was thinking is… in doing it another way can i eliminate this showing up as the address: [www.mysite.com:8080](http://www.mysite.com:8080) instead of this: [www.theothersite.com](http://www.theothersite.com) without the 8080. Do I need DNS Setup? If I have confused any one I’m sorry and jjust let me know. I will try and word my question differently. Thanks a lot! ---
**Author:** ![aknatn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@aknatn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aknatn)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/2 "2004-08-24T19:47:26Z")
I have been hosting my own site for years, and have been throught the ringer. I still don’t have DNS set up. I use Dynamic DNS from [no-ip.com](http://www.no-ip.com) , you can setup all kinds of options there. There is an amswer for every DNS problem and you can use your own domain or one of theres. I use the pay for service because I wanted the offline features, but all of their usefull services are free. You can handle your port 80 ridirect there and have the option of hiding the address, (so you don’t see the ip or port). You can also get some advice from [http://www.portforward.com/](http://www.portforward.com/) about hosting multiple sites using port forwarding and port redirects. I have never done that though, so good luck there. For web hosting I use: Windows 98se ( :ne: I know it’s all I can afford) Abyss webserver PHP (from [php.net](http://php.net)) MySQL (from [MySQL.com](http://MySQL.com)) PERL (from active state) Mercury Mail (from Pegusus mail) and the Dynamic IP Update Client from [no-ip.com](http://no-ip.com) Oh yeah my site is at: [http://structure.myftp.org](http://structure.myftp.org) if you want to see a sample of these combinations. Sometimes my ISP will block my port 80 so I will use the port 80 ridirect from no-ip. ---
**Author:** ![jw06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jw06](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jw06)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/3 "2004-08-24T19:58:31Z")
Ok ill take a look. but i want to make sure of something first. I had two domains pointing to my server. [www.m4dbr0s.com](http://www.m4dbr0s.com) and [www.vintage-irc.net](http://www.vintage-irc.net) -\> I added port 8080 for vintage irc… but when I visit: [www.vintage-irc.net](http://www.vintage-irc.net) it puts the link in the address in the bar as: [www.m4dbr0s.com:8080](http://www.m4dbr0s.com:8080) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![SeiferTim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/seifertim/32/188_2.png) [@SeiferTim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SeiferTim)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/4 "2004-08-24T22:37:20Z")
I’m getting ready to build my own Server - currently I’m using everything on my PC, which is running WinXP - but I want to run a Linux server… is Debian a good one to use? ---
**Author:** ![jw06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jw06](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jw06)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/5 "2004-08-25T02:48:54Z")
Any BSD Is good for servers 🙂 FreeBSD, GentooX, or Debian. I recomend debian… Its got a nice friendly install and everything ---
**Author:** ![SeiferTim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/seifertim/32/188_2.png) [@SeiferTim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SeiferTim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/6 "2004-08-25T05:09:52Z")
Cool. Thanks 😃 ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/7 "2004-08-25T12:12:17Z")
> [@jw06](#): > > Any BSD Is good for servers 🙂 FreeBSD, GentooX, or Debian. I recomend debian… Its got a nice friendly install and everything Gentoo and Debian aren’t BSDs. They’re Linux distros. (GentooX is a Linux distros for Xboxes…) Also, debian’s installer really isn’t that use friendly. Fedora Core has a nice graphical installer, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![jw06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jw06](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jw06)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/8 "2004-08-25T15:28:45Z")
☹ ima complete idiot, lol… i posted thinking bsd’s and not about other linux distros… lol ☹ im sorry. Yea… Debian is afriendly i think… But definetaly not gentoo… and If you want simple, Go Redhat or fedora 😑 im stupid ---
**Author:** ![SeiferTim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/seifertim/32/188_2.png) [@SeiferTim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SeiferTim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/9 "2004-08-25T15:35:57Z")
Well, I’m basically looking for something that can run a decent / stable server on a Dell Poweredge 4300. If you say Debian works fine, than I’ll use that (I’ve been tryng to download it for several hours now, but the FTP server is only giving 25 Kb/s and its a 583MB file… :P) ---
**Author:** ![jw06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jw06](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jw06)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debian-linux-server-apache-question/120480/10 "2004-08-25T19:24:06Z")
If you are new to linux, I would recomend a nice GUI Installation such as any Red Hat distro. If you are going with debian and your server has any built in raid, like my 2400. You will need to find a patched kernel that has it built in. If you need any help with this PM me and I can help when I get home.