05. 25th - 26th May

I have now installed Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Plus it was incredibly easy to do. I was initially apprehensive as Linux has always been the preserve of the "Uber-Geeks!" and I'm a Microsoft trained professional. The server runs really quickly now and is extremely stable and reliable, for example I can re-boot it without any services failing unlike Windows!

I have also configured my new router in place of my Virgin media router which now solely acts as a modem. The new router took a couple of hours to configure my wireless networks and DMZ settings. Asus provide their own DDNS service which I have used to create the URL of http://userguardian.asuscomm.com/ linked to my ISP external IP number.

This screenshot shows the configuration of my Router using DDNS, and the IP of my Dell Server on my local network.

Tasks Completed

Configuration of Hosted Environment

Additional Tasks

Test Apache webserver to ensure a webpage can be seen from the Internet