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Hi Neil On 29 May 2006, at 09:19, Neil Williams wrote: > It seems a little too hardened to me. No ping response, nmap reports > All > 1674 scanned ports on ... are: filtered So how do I go about opening these ports up and will that compromise the server please? > > How are you proposing to modify files on this server? Is it local? What > if you need to change files whilst away from your usual machine(s) > and/or in case of a service failure / hardware failure with your usual > machine(s)? I am trying to modify them locally. However, I have a problem in that I want to run a wordpress blog locally. However, when I try to http://86.53.38.156 I get a login console to the Netgear router!? > > The current homepage needs to be replaced - it contains a lot more > information than the equivalent Apache page. I will change it as quickly as I can sort out the above. > > I wouldn't worry about email harvesting of the IP address - to be > useful > this server will need to be in some form of DNS and will end up with > some form of HTML link to it from another part of the web. There's > little point in having a web server that is internet-visible if it > cannot be located by search engines. I am trying to arrange this. I have asked the folks I co-host a server with whether it is possible to point a site I own to this url. They have said it is possible but will have to do some things: There are two things which seem to be needed. One is a wildcard DNS entry - an A record for *.domain-name.com pointing to the server's IP address. That will be no problem. The other is to make changes to the vhost.conf file. I'm not sure what changes are needed - it is possibly simply the inclusion of the line Server Alias *.domain-name, but I cannot be sure. Both of these should be fine. Can you maybe tell me what I need to do please? Thanks. -- Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12 v 1 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html